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WHO ARE WE? There are few questions more dangerous, more urgent, and more necessary than this
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WHO ARE WE? There are few questions more dangerous, more urgent, and more necessary than this

By Mota Moto: An African warrior (Image: Facebook) We are the children of broken homesteads, the grandchildren of the dispossessed, the inheritors of unfinished wars. Our ancestors walked through fire, and many were consumed by it, so that a sliver of freedom could find its way to us. The path we walk was paved with unimaginable sacrifices. The blood of martyrs, the tears of mothers and starving children, the broken backs of workers, the poor, and the silent hopes of the oppressed have laid this road. Yet, for all that was given, for all that was taken — what have we become? In the name of peace, humanity accepted bitter compromises: entire nations organized into systems, religions, ideologies — each demanding obedience not to human dignity, but to doctrine. In this way, peopl...