<cite> @Coofle said:</cite> Bravo Alpha, Admitting is the firs step. Tribe is a good thing to keep lineage of society and to know who is who and keep track of your relatives. unfortunately, tribe like everything has Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 'The good, the bad and the ugly'. Due to an inherent ignorance, we turned a lineage line that was supposed to mean 'nothing' and turned it to a big idol that our lives revolve around. when I first admitted that tribalism is taking atoll of my life and I had a difficult time hanging out with many friends. deciding to stop clan bashing and making judgement calls based on tribe was not swallowed by my own circle. Suddenly I knew I was righteous and gained the energy when I met a childhood friend!. I can't think of my boyhood with him in the picture and yet as we grew up we drifted apart, I got into high school but he did not. He was from Beelaha-la-hayb sooco , the fact that we were next-door neighbors, grew up in the same environment, went to same school, equals in everything, did not mean anything in real adult life, what mattered was qolomaa tahay?....its difficult for a teenager of beelaha la hayb sooco to attend school , just put your self in thier shoes, its not financial (might be) but it has to do more with social expectations and cruelty. Yaanan sheeko kugu daaline, Since you are a naturalized Somaliland citizen and as I heard your naturalization ceremony was held in bustaanada dacar budhuq . you should find a way of balancing tribe in your life, yet avoiding tribalism. If you get that itch of tribalism, to say something about reer hebel, instead scratch it by saying something good . If you see yourself judging someone by their tribe, put yourself in their place. If you see yourself doing the worst of all, Harming someone in the name of tribe, Acuudu-bilayso then Astaqfurlayso and remember its prejudice ( Dulmi , that word works on me better, Dulmi ) and you don't want be daalim. ..... dearest Coofle, thank you for your wise words. as can you imagine, it wasn't easy admitting to this cilaad but i felt i could confide in you. i recently read a book about this beelaha la hayb sooco. it was interesting and i felt i could empathise with their plight, being a member of a minority clan myself. all we need is to understand each other, runnti. inshallah, one day we can all live in peace and harmony.

this man is innocent. we know this because Somali women have become 'bahlo'.

<cite> @Tillamook said:</cite> That's precisely what I've been saying: Somalilanders are my cousins!

Human zoos and colonial nostalgia In a week that has seen an unarmed black teen shot down by police, a controversial art performance may seem frivolous or even insignificant. But Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B, a 21st Century reinterpretation of Victorian-era human zoos, in which black Africans were paraded in front of a curious European audience, is just the thin end of the wedge in which black bodies are dehumanised. Bailey, whose show is currently the talk of Edinburgh festival, and is coming soon to London’s Barbican, claims he is interested in the way people were objectified in order to legitimise colonial policies. However, to interrogate abhorrent practices in our history, one does not need to replicate them. As recently seen with Kara Walker’s mammy sphinx, general audiences are rarely savvy enough to comprehend the complexities of such histories, and instead the entire work descends into a spectacle. A review of Exhibit B in the Guardian reveals the skewed power relationship between Bailey, a privileged South African, white, male artist, and his black performers, whom he instructs behave “with compassion,” but also makes fun of their appearance and is comfortable with openly using racial slurs. I find it difficult to believe that his intent for the viewer is to provoke thought and discussion, rather than just ogle. Even allowing for artistic expression, offensive or not, there are wider questions to be addressed. Something is seriously wrong when not a single person in the programming department of an organisation as large as the Barbican, which is publicly funded and supposed to serve the diverse, multicultural audience of London, saw a problem with scheduling this show. This is what happens when diversity is relegated to being the sole responsibility of the outreach and education departments, while programming and curating remain homogenous. And good luck to that outreach department – is it really any surprise BME visitor numbers are so low, when this is how we are represented in the arts? A few schools and community workshops will not balance it out. At a time when black artists are marginalised and struggling for visibility, arts institutions still see fit to provide a platform to such uninspired, tired tropes, in the spirit of some sort of colonial nostalgia. BME and women artists are frequently criticised or dismissed for themes of identity politics in their work, but black lived experiences seem to be acceptable fodder for white artists. Of course, white artists are not exempt from exploring colonial histories – it is a shared history, after all. However, other artists, both black and white have inserted themselves into the picture when examining oppressive historical practices, such as Coco Fusco & Guillermo Gomez Pena, Tracy Rose, and Leah Gordon. Perhaps Brett Bailey should stop putting people in cages and instead take a look at the zoo-keeper. --- http://minorliteratures.com/2014/08/18/human-zoos-and-colonial-nostalgia/ --- interesting read.

Zimbabwe's Grace Mugabe enters Zanu-PF politics The wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has entered politics after being endorsed to become head of the ruling Zanu-PF party's women's league. Grace Mugabe, 49, will take over the role in December at the party's annual congress. The BBC's Brian Hungwe in Zimbabwe says the post will allow Mrs Mugabe to sit on Zanu-PF's powerful politburo. There has been tension in Zanu-PF over who should succeed Mr Mugabe, who was re-elected president last year. Mrs Mugabe was officially recommended to become the national secretary of the Zanu-PF women's league at its elective congress, which has been taking place in the capital, Harare. The gathering was addressed by her 90-year-old husband, who has governed Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. She is his second wife and used to be his secretary. The couple married in 1996 and have three children. Our reporter says her entry into politics is likely to fuel further tension over Mr Mugabe's succession. ---- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28812801 ---- interesting developments in Zim.

i heard about this. this is sad.

The cold, hard truth about the ice bucket challenge I look at the camera, hold a bucket of ice water over my head, tip it upside down, post the video on social media and then nominate two others to do the same. Along the way, my nominees and I use the opportunity to donate to the ALS Association, a charity that fights amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also called Lou Gerhig’s disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Multiply this activity 70,000 times, and the result is that the ALS Association has received $3 million in additional donations. Via the ice bucket challenge, celebrities and the general public have fun and receive publicity; at the same time, millions of dollars are raised for a good cause. It’s a win-win, right? Sadly, things are not so simple. The key problem is funding cannibalism. That $3 million in donations doesn’t appear out of a vacuum. Because people on average are limited in how much they’re willing to donate to good causes, if someone donates $100 to the ALS Association, he or she will likely donate less to other charities. This isn’t just speculation. Research from my own non-profit, which raises money for the most effective global poverty charities, has found that, for every $1 we raise, 50¢ would have been donated anyway. Given our fundraising model, which asks for commitments much larger than the amount people typically donate, we have reason to think that this is a lower proportion than is typical for fundraising drives. So, because of the $3 million that the ALS Association has received, I’d bet that much more than $1.5 million has been lost by other charities. A similar phenomenon has been studied in the lab by psychologists. It’s called moral licensing: the idea that doing one good action leads one to compensate by doing fewer good actions in the future. In a recent experiment, participants either selected a product from a selection of mostly “green” items (like an energy-efficient light bulb) or from a selection of mostly conventional items (like a regular light bulb). They were then told to perform a supposedly unrelated task. However, in this second task, the results were self-reported, so the participants had a financial incentive to lie; and they were invited to pay themselves out of an envelope, so they had an opportunity to steal as well. What happened? People who had previously purchased a green product were significantly more likely to both lie and steal than those who had purchased the conventional product. Their demonstration of ethical behavior subconsciously gave them license to act unethically when the chance arose. Amazingly, even just saying that you’d do something good can cause the moral self-licensing effect. In another study, half the participants were asked to imagine helping a foreign student who had asked for assistance in understanding a lecture. They subsequently gave significantly less to charity when given the chance to do so than the other half of the participants, who had not been asked to imagine helping another student. The explanation behind moral licensing is that people are often more concerned about looking good or feeling good rather than doing good. If you “do your bit” by buying an energy-efficient lightbulb, then your status as a good human being is less likely to be called into question if you subsequently steal. In terms of the conditions for the moral licensing effect to occur, the ice bucket challenge is perfect. The challenge gives you a way to very publicly demonstrate your altruism via a painful task, despite actually accomplishing very little (on average, not including those who don’t donate at all, a $40 gift, or 0.07% of the average American household’s income): it’s geared up to make you feel as good about your actions as possible, rather than to ensure that your actions do as much good as possible. This why Caitlin Dewey, a blogger for the Washington Post who claims that we should praise the challenge for raising so much money, gets it all wrong. The ice bucket challenge has done one good thing, which is raise $3 million for the ALS Association. But it’s also done a really bad thing: take money and attention away from other charities and other causes. That means that, if we want to know whether the ice bucket challenge has been on balance a good thing for the world, we’ve got to assess how effective the ALS Associations is compared with other charities. If 50% of that $3 million would have been donated anyway, and if the ALS association is less than half as effective at turning donations into positive impact on people’s wellbeing than other charities are on average, then the fundraiser would actively be doing harm. It’s perfectly possible that this is the case: even though some charities are fantastically effective, many achieve very little. You just can’t know without doing some serious investigation. This isn’t to object to the ALS Association in particular. Almost every charity does the same thing — engaging in a race to the bottom where the benefits to the donor have to be as large as possible, and the costs as small as possible. (Things are even worse in the UK, where the reward of publicizing yourself all over social media comes at a suggested price of just £3 donated to MacMillan Cancer Support.) We should be very worried about this, because competitive fundraising ultimately destroys value for the social sector as a whole. We should not reward people for minor acts of altruism, when they could have done so much more, because doing so creates a culture where the correct response to the existence of preventable death and suffering is to give some pocket change. Cannibalism of funding among charities is a major problem. However, there is a solution. The moral licensing phenomenon doesn’t always happen: there is a countervailing psychological force, called commitment effects. If in donating to charity you don’t conceive of it as “doing your bit” but instead as taking one small step towards making altruism a part of your identity, then one good deed really will beget another. This means that we should tie new altruistic commitments to serious, long-lasting behavior change. Rather than making a small donation to a charity you’ve barely heard of, you could make a commitment to find out which charities are most cost-effective, and to set up an ongoing commitment to those charities that you conclude do the most good with your donations. Or you could publicly pledge to give a proportion of your income. These would be meaningful behavior changes: they would be structural changes to how you live your life; and you could express them as the first step towards making altruism part of your identity. No doubt that, if we ran such campaigns, the number of people who would do these actions would be smaller, but in the long term the total impact would be far larger. So, sure, pour a bucket of water over yourself, or go bungee jumping, or lie in a bathtub of beans, whatever. But only do these things if you connect these fundraisers with meaningful behavior change, otherwise your campaign, even if seemingly fantastically successful, could be doing more harm than good. ---------- http://qz.com/249649/the-cold-hard-truth-about-the-ice-bucket-challenge/ --------- i've done the challenge....LOL

these people speak a strange evolved version of Af-Somaliga. they make the Xamaris seem understandable.

<cite> @Khayr said:</cite> Waryaa, Shiib deh oh buskaa xaagadhembey fariiso, oromo yaaho you sound spasticated.

<cite> @Coofle said:</cite> This is not only true for religion but for tribalism as well! or any vile idea for that matter. yeah, i know brovs. i'm a victim of this. i've become indoctrinated by and brainwashed by tribalism. i'm so tribalistic it affect my daily thoughts and stuff but i'm not going to blow myself, you know. the terrorist jihadists have to demonstrate their insidious bravado by doing an act, ma garatay? balse, like you said, it's all the same. we must protect our young people but our culture is very weak and very backward. maxa talo ah?

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> "I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil." Malcolm X i actually agree with you Dr.Kenny. who would've thought, considering your jihadist sympathises. let the liberals continue to see the world through their rose-tinted glasses.

he appears to be morally corrupt, judging by these pics.

to someone special.

<cite> @OdaySomali said:</cite> AB how do you do Inaar? i'm doing excellent. everything is brilliant Alhamdullah. life is so good these days. i've never been happier. i wish the same for you, too. thanks for your greetings. it has been noted. cheers. A

i read every single one and didn't find it remotely funny.

this is PC gone mad. the man ought to employ whoever he wants. why politicise something so simple.

this is pitiful. what do they hope to achieve with this display of solidarity?

bantu women are ugly, they are walking beasts with an extremely below average IQ.

they look very bantu kuli.

a nation of failures. futile.

<cite> @Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar said:</cite> Tan timaheeda iska daayee ee iiga waran booyaastii? Did you re-prepose again? Did she accept this time mise wey diiday again? why don't you write proper Af-Somali MMA? no one understands this gibberish you continue to promote on these boards. kulaha booyaastii? WTF does that even mean brovs?

the West's sanctions have failed against the imperious nation of Russia. Germany, France and Italy are highly reliant on Russia oil and gas. similarly German cars are sought after in Russia. demand for Italian luxurious products are at an all time high in Russia.....and recently France sold warships to Russia. it's only Britain who is crudely making empty threats against Russia. the West isn't so united on how to deal with Russia, ma garatay? on the boycott of Israeli goods, i'm not too keen, you know. this is since Israel and Somaliland are in the process of making cordial relations of the utmost importance. this is very important for our nation's interest.