It looked like the stars were lined up for the opening of the much anticipated Beijing Olympics. A beautiful day. 08/08/08. The opening ceremony at the “Bird’s Nest” was, by far, one of the best opening ceremonies of any event I have seen in my life time. One would think it can’t get any better than that. For many, of course, it might not get any better than this - at least for few more years but for Oromos, I think we’ve seen better days.
Almost all athletes who have been and still are representing “Ethiopia” on the Olympics are Oromos unless the ethnocentric Tigrayans who are currently misleading “Ethiopia” included some of their less qualified athletes in place of deserving Oromos this time around. Wait… it gets worse. I was waiting to see our heroes and heroines to come out during the parade of nations wearing traditional Oromo clothing for the first time on the Olympics for a change from the same old typical Abyssinian garments they have worn every four years in the past.
My high hope to see authentic Oromo culture being represented on the world stage soon got deflated when I saw a bunch of Tigrayans came out with their own everything. There was no trace of any one of our beloved athletes on the scene. It makes you wonder. These low self-esteem minority dictators are at it again trying to cover their inferiority complex by excluding TEAM OROMIA from the parade like they are the ones running to win GOLD for the nation. They are still not satisfied after 18 years of killing, imprisoning, starving, harassing, and looting our people. They want to outshine us on the Olympics too. How pathetic! They don’t even have anything to show except that one guy who won Olympics in the past – even him, I highly suspect to have an Oromo blood if he is from Southern Tigray, Raya & Azebo area where the majority of them are Oromos by blood.
In any case, my beef is not with Miruts Yifter or any of the other Tigrayans who were rallying behind him per se but rather with the Tigrayans hijacking an Olympics event to further their marginalization of Oromos. Oromos have always been marginalized in “Ethiopian” society both by Amharas and Tigrayans but what we saw yesterday took that to a whole another level. Even this year’s Olympics’ theme is “One World One Dream” and everyone in the world would think it is time for unity and harmony but the ethnocentrist Tigrayans had their only dream of being the one at any cost. What a disgrace for human race!
This should be a wake-up call for every Oromo athlete if they are not awake by now. They should all ask themselves why they run and who they run for. It is high time for every Oromo athlete to take heed and RUN FOR OROMIA!
Here is this year’s Run for Oromia event with some pictures.
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