They called it Xenophobia, I call it another one of English vocabularies.
They called it irrational fear of foreigners, I call it a flimsy excuse for a heinous crime committed.
They make it sound so common like entering a mall and window shopping or licking melted ice-cream off one's finger, talking about it in news, discussing it in talk shows but I say it is loss of humanity - the basis of all life, the essence of our distinctness from other living things; animals and plants, the root of our quality as the choicest primate. Oh no! It is not xenophobia. it is dehumanisation! It is blood lust. It is pure murder! It is a robbery of Life and human rights!
Why beautify the atrocious act by giving it such a special name...Xenophobia? It is one thing to have irrational fear of something. For the love of God, people get claustrophobia, agoraphobia, zoo-phobia, homophobia, acrophobia, haemophobia and all the phobia they can acquire; (to be sure feel real free to check up the Wikipedias and encyclopaedias of the world) but should it be a grand justification for calculated acts of murder and blood lust. Where is our humanity for God sake? And what will the so called developed nations call it now? Shove it under the mat of technological advancement and twenty-something century breakthroughs? Oh God! What is this world becoming?
The nations of this whole globe is a jungle. There is no difference between us and the wild beast. It is now a scramble for the survival of the fittest. We prey on each other like the lions, falling cruelly on the weakest of us and devouring one another without a minute mercy. We justify acts of Genocide, Rape, Abduction, Suicide-bombing, Slavery, Cannibalism, Torture, Religious persecution, Racial discriminations, Apartheid etc by giving it nice terms, splashing them boldly across news channels like the icing on a chocolate cake, and serving it to us as desert after a full course meal of bloodshed.
And here I was thinking the Roman Empire that roasted Christians as torches for Nero's gladiatorial games, fed disobedient slaves and anyone thought a threat to the then Roman empire to wild dogs and starved lions in the Circus Maximus as the cruellest. Was the apartheid movement in the former South Africa more horrible than what is now happening? We teach the present generation the world's history, warning them of crimes committed by former leaders. We mention Moammar Qaddafi, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, Idi Amin Dada, Osama Bin-Laden and lots others but we fail to see the irony in us for we are the worst enemy of life and humanity with our polished treachery and suave idiocy (no insult intended please). We can coat the truth all we like, like those sweet coated medicine we swallow and later discover how bitter they thirst, but we make those horrible past leaders jubilate in their graves. We make them saints in the face of our putrefying humanity. Oh, how pathetic! How really pathetic!
Today, I question my humanity. If I can stand calmly and watch while others butcher another like animals without mercy and a simple shed tear, what makes me any different from them? If one can stand boldly and film acts of murder, spread it on the net without a twig of mercy and emotion, what makes that any different from the acts itself. Why should we pay heavily to create make-believe films on thriller and horror when movies of such horrific magnitude occur daily around us? Where is the censor? Of what good is it to us to erect fine buildings and splash 'International Court of Justice' or 'Human Rights Organisation' across it's face when we deface the essence of our humanity daily.
Oh please, don't come here trying to justify this. If you have one good suggestion or objection to make, please just take a yawn, sleep over it and ask yourself if you were the one at the receiving end of all this, how would it feel? There is no need for tear gland in our system, no need for a heart. Where is the love? Where is the humanity?
We are the living dead. Why all these polished demeanour while we decay and ooze sores within. The maggots are getting to us and we still believe we live? Oh how splendidly pathetic! Help us oh God.
(c) Stephanie Ejike,
April 20, 2015.
They called it irrational fear of foreigners, I call it a flimsy excuse for a heinous crime committed.
They make it sound so common like entering a mall and window shopping or licking melted ice-cream off one's finger, talking about it in news, discussing it in talk shows but I say it is loss of humanity - the basis of all life, the essence of our distinctness from other living things; animals and plants, the root of our quality as the choicest primate. Oh no! It is not xenophobia. it is dehumanisation! It is blood lust. It is pure murder! It is a robbery of Life and human rights!
Why beautify the atrocious act by giving it such a special name...Xenophobia? It is one thing to have irrational fear of something. For the love of God, people get claustrophobia, agoraphobia, zoo-phobia, homophobia, acrophobia, haemophobia and all the phobia they can acquire; (to be sure feel real free to check up the Wikipedias and encyclopaedias of the world) but should it be a grand justification for calculated acts of murder and blood lust. Where is our humanity for God sake? And what will the so called developed nations call it now? Shove it under the mat of technological advancement and twenty-something century breakthroughs? Oh God! What is this world becoming?
The nations of this whole globe is a jungle. There is no difference between us and the wild beast. It is now a scramble for the survival of the fittest. We prey on each other like the lions, falling cruelly on the weakest of us and devouring one another without a minute mercy. We justify acts of Genocide, Rape, Abduction, Suicide-bombing, Slavery, Cannibalism, Torture, Religious persecution, Racial discriminations, Apartheid etc by giving it nice terms, splashing them boldly across news channels like the icing on a chocolate cake, and serving it to us as desert after a full course meal of bloodshed.
And here I was thinking the Roman Empire that roasted Christians as torches for Nero's gladiatorial games, fed disobedient slaves and anyone thought a threat to the then Roman empire to wild dogs and starved lions in the Circus Maximus as the cruellest. Was the apartheid movement in the former South Africa more horrible than what is now happening? We teach the present generation the world's history, warning them of crimes committed by former leaders. We mention Moammar Qaddafi, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, Idi Amin Dada, Osama Bin-Laden and lots others but we fail to see the irony in us for we are the worst enemy of life and humanity with our polished treachery and suave idiocy (no insult intended please). We can coat the truth all we like, like those sweet coated medicine we swallow and later discover how bitter they thirst, but we make those horrible past leaders jubilate in their graves. We make them saints in the face of our putrefying humanity. Oh, how pathetic! How really pathetic!
Today, I question my humanity. If I can stand calmly and watch while others butcher another like animals without mercy and a simple shed tear, what makes me any different from them? If one can stand boldly and film acts of murder, spread it on the net without a twig of mercy and emotion, what makes that any different from the acts itself. Why should we pay heavily to create make-believe films on thriller and horror when movies of such horrific magnitude occur daily around us? Where is the censor? Of what good is it to us to erect fine buildings and splash 'International Court of Justice' or 'Human Rights Organisation' across it's face when we deface the essence of our humanity daily.
Oh please, don't come here trying to justify this. If you have one good suggestion or objection to make, please just take a yawn, sleep over it and ask yourself if you were the one at the receiving end of all this, how would it feel? There is no need for tear gland in our system, no need for a heart. Where is the love? Where is the humanity?
We are the living dead. Why all these polished demeanour while we decay and ooze sores within. The maggots are getting to us and we still believe we live? Oh how splendidly pathetic! Help us oh God.
(c) Stephanie Ejike,
April 20, 2015.
Awesome write-up. Keep it going.
ReplyDeleteThe story is very horrifying and inhumane. I must commend you my amiable manager for this wonderful article. I really wish that the world human right activists will react to this taboo without delay. More grace to your ma. more of this. keep it up and Keep the pen writing.
ReplyDelete*Smiles* I can somehow smell who wrote this even though you are anonymous. Thanks for the encouraging comment.
DeleteRare Words... The world need to hear this message.
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