By Thiik Mou Giir, Melbourne, Australia
Thursday, February 27, 2020 (PW) — Two things you need to be careful about as we face many social issues in this society. One, do not get used to adoring those non-Africans, non-South Sudanese-Australians, who have taken upon themselves to work and to speak on your behalf.
Two, keep checking those among you who put on airs of being the people who speak on your behalf, but, actually, are working in order to advance their own interests. You are here for a big game and, if you are incapable of seeing the big game, it is no one’s fault, but your own.
When you were in Africa, you did not have to learn how to figure out whether someone is in action fighting you. You saw he was coming towards you with spears, a shield, a bow and arrows, or even with a gun. Here in Diaspora, you have to learn the fact that this is a different kind of war.
In this war, your enemy is not fighting you using those enemy-tools you got used to seeing when you were in Africa. He is fighting you now and you do not even know he is fighting you. This is the worst kind of war because you are bleeding and you do not even know you are bleeding, daily!
The more you understand this war in Diaspora, the more you will understand what is fanning the war in South Sudan. They are interconnected. This, too, you do not know, do you?
Your failure of not being able to get together, speak about the issues among yourselves and then to speak about them to the government officials or even to your enemy, is nothing but laying down for your enemy to slaughter you, slowly.
On the other hand, your attitude towards others show that you are willing to come together only when a representative of your enemy want you to come together in their presence. For them, you put on your best suits and your best shoes.
When you are called upon to speak, you speak very politely. When a representative of your enemies speaks to you, you trust him so much that you seem to believe that your problems have already been solved in the flash of every word he utters.
He is only there to give you the impression that things will change for you and that good days will come your way one day. Actually, nothing will come your way without us, not others, doing things for ourselves.
Have guts to tell yourself, “I do not want other people to speak on my behalf and I do not want other people to do things for me; I can do the things I want for me and for Australia. Away with the situation in which I am being treated like a monkey who cannot reach a banana his enemy is offering and pulling it back!”
Thiik Mou Giir, Bachelor Degree in Education from the University of Alexandria, Egypt; Post Graduate Diploma, from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He can be reached via his email contact: thiik_giir@hotmail.com