how are young people so….. lax about this OBVIOUS corruption that’s being displayed in front of us
For the record, I want to clarify that I am 19. So I was pretty much a toddler during the whole meles regime, meaning I wasn’t really politically aware.
(PS: THIS IS A VERY LONG RANT SO BEAR WITH ME)
I see a shit ton of dumps on tiktok from people who are so obviously the children of politicians or high ranking government officials, flexing their wealth. Dinners at hotto, brunch at the Sheraton, shopping in Dubai, ALC bottles lined up at Luna, the V8s and military license plates, and of course the classic “VIP car pass” that is truly the cherry on top. And let’s not forget the pics/videos of a policeman saluting them like it genuinely means something.
Every time I see it, I genuinely feel a level of rage incomparable to anything I have ever felt before. Sure, you can’t help the line of work your parents are in, but how do you have the brass neck to post this level of wealth that we ALL know a politician’s salary can’t provide? The audacity to flex stolen tax money TO THE PEOPLE YOU STOLE IT FROM??????IS THAT NOT CRAZY??
Do they not feel even the slightest bit of shame or embarrassment knowing that the Louboutins they’re wearing, or the absurdly expensive bill they just picked up at Marcus or Hotto was actually paid for by the men and women working day in and day out to barely make ends meet for their family? Those men and women who worked tirelessly earned that money. Your parents stole it. And now you’re turning around WITH ZERO SHAME might i add, to flex it in front of the very children of the people your parents stole it from. The fucking IRONY!!!!! THE AUDACITY!!!!!
What angers me even more and actually saddens me at the same time, is people in the comments being sarcastic or saying things like “Please be CBE lakelig,” and it makes me wonder how long, and how bad has the exposure to this level of corruption been for people to just accept it and not have enough anger left in them to fight?
I know for a fact it’s not because they aren’t angry enough. It’s more that they just don’t have enough fight left in them that the anger has hardened into resentment, and the resentment has eventually turned into acceptance. They have just accepted the painful reality that they really can’t change the fact that almost half of their barely there paycheck is going to pad the pockets of a few officials. And it worries me too. Will this anger i feel ever yield into something concrete that it will help reshape the painful truth of my people or will it just just slowly erode into the same resentment, the same exhaustion, and eventually the same acceptance? I hope i don’t, and i hope YOU don’t as well. We need to fight tooth and nail to build a future we can speak of with the same pride we have when we speak of our history. So stop seeing this corruption as a default, let that anger sit within you and have you seething for a great change so no child in the coming generation will have their future determined by their ethnicity.