Saturday, December 25, 2010

This land is my land, this land is your land.

Humankind is essentially and generally a social animal. One of the highest order social species known today. Humans have been known to travel thousands of kilometers (or miles) for that matter, to seek out greener pastures, more accommodating climates, better social comforts, safety from persecution, adventure and have proven to be able to make any place-however habitable or inhabitable-home.
It is widely accepted that humans settlement originally started somewhere in Africa and spread out throughout the world with different peoples settling in different regions that seemed to favour their aspirations at the time.

With the advent of sophisticated methods of travel and communication however, humans have re-visited their zeal to move and find alternative habitats, hunting grounds, the world over. Peoples have moved from regions earlier designated as their 'reserve' to regions where they would have been regarded as foreigners and have taken root, calling it home. There are members of the white race, the Asiatic peoples calling Africa, sub-Sahara Africa, home. They have become natives in these regions. There are black peoples calling Europe, the Americas and Asia their home. Orientals are known to be in the deep west and that boundary is now not so distinct-there is an uncanny Nipponese/Peruvian connection that simply suggests that east is west and west is east.

My point is that the world peoples have always been one. There has never been that sense of ownership, that sense of belonging, that feeling that a certain region belongs to a certain  people. This has been proven time and again, through millennia and all those who espouse these sentiments have been rudely re-educated by the passage of time. Our ancestral lands remain ancestral as long as we all belong to the same ancestors. Let's let the government resettle all our landless where there is adequate, uninhabited land and let's move on. It is such a disgrace to have people celebrating Christmas in refugee camps- refugees in their own land because of our culture/cancer of impunity.

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