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Down With the Sinister Tree!

May 30, 2013

samI loathe your brainless and morbid attitudes You make us treat our own like aliens An earthling as a Martian on this green habitat... unthinkable!   May the Potter of all flesh requite those who sow discordant seeds amongst mankind designed to be one.   It’s a seed that spreads like wild fire and use unsightly fruits to impair unity and oneness and we permit it.   The gruesome tree from which it comes stifles life, liberty, and the serene abode of every race, creed and colour.   We must now cut down that tree lest ere long its acerbic logs come hard upon us, the beauties and beasts, and mar our dazzling futures.   That tree breeds an ill-wind, a wind that blows away the intent of diversity.   Let’s concertedly sharpen axes, and cut down that baleful tree and burn it and bury its ashes because only then can we climb the true tree of freedom which our heroes, past and present stepped on thorns to plant.   True trees bear the fruit of love, peace and commonality and shade and house the Ubuntu; dignity of humanity. True trees disperse the sweet scent of liberty that stifle the repulsive odour of repression and racialism.   “Ubuntu” is an age-long African belief. By definition,” Ubuntu” means that each one of us can only exist as fully functioning human beings when we acknowledge the roles that others play in our lives. In other words, “a person is a person through other people”, or umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu or “I am because you are”.   Written by Samuel Duru

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