There's no such thing as post racial or post tribal eras

It is 7:21 AM central American time and I am making my way through a crowd of high school students heading to my work station with a group of teenagers.

Amazing things happen in these types of settings, one can see the true nature of primates as they relate to their race and or tribal beings.

It is not trivial that all of us relate better to other people who are just like us and this is the true order of things.

Blacks relate better to other blacks and even within our race as blacks we relate better to our tribal beings.

This is better illustrated in a continent like Africa...where for centuries one tribe hates another tribe just for simply being created differently...in Uganda the Bakiga people  may have learned to live around the Basoga people but in the end these tribal beings have core values that they are not willing to trade in just for the  simplicity of getting along.

It could be their way of laungues, their traditional dances and clothing  or other ceremonies...and they are places where one cannot enter unless one plays his part of a said group/tribe/race....there are so many hidden facts that are never told or taught in the mystery of slave trade..the fact that other blacks sold off their racemates ..trabial cheifs would capture and invade different villages back in historical Africa and sale their racemates to the slave masters, not saying it was the most common way but yes, the trade happened in Africa where some chiefs played a part.

Back to 7:21 AM central American time...as I walk through the halls of a large high school heading to the office..evidence is clear that Blacks, Whites, Arabs or Asians mainly gather with each other..it is the same way during lunch, gym, the bus stops or other free time outside of organized instructional time.

States are strict to zoning schools leaving a huge gap to where students can attend...the school system today is the most segregated system in the US ..that and church, some foxs would go as far as  protesting a said group to moving or building closer to their different boundaries calling upon all sorts of reasonings...but at the core, it is usually because of race or one group's economic status.

I was once filling in for a teacher at one elementary school around the corner..teachers in their lounge were talking about the rulings of a meeting that happened previously.

To conclude, they were discussing about the matters of their school's demographics, and the situation that had pissed everyone was the proposed amendment to the school zoning.

What had happened was the school district had suggested to bus in some students from a nearby neighborhood perhaps not so as affluent as the demographics here.

I sat there is both wonder and awe as I heard them discuss the rulings of the meeting..it was a basically "hell no" we don't want those low economic students bussed here...they were talking about their school pride..."our kids are not on free lunch" and other things..their school did not have many ESL students and the idea of bussing in a lot of none native English speakers at the bottom of the economic ladder was not acceptable at this place.

..I ate my cold pizza in silence..I didn't know these people well to jugde them as racist or tribal but I questioned their understanding especially in a public school system deemed as "not separate" but equal.

I went on with my life after lunch...

Funny thing is church is open to all..but at the end of the day black Baptists will feel better attending church with their kins as to say mexicans Catholics would do the same attending mass with their said cohort racial and tribal groups.

I haven't done research on this, but the little church boy in me has taken good observations on this matter..try to attend "the church without walls" in west Houston if you're not black and tell me how comfortable you feel there.

Go to any of these "second baptist" churches around here and tell me how unsegrated they are on a Sunday.

I am for the motion that black lives matter just as much as white lives do...but I am not naive enough to believe that every blackman is my kin or that every whiteman is my enemy. But some are!

I basically believe that we  have just learned to put up with each other ..you can never take these instincts out of people...

Racism and or tribalism is not taught...
it is just the way we were programmed by nature like our cousins...the animals that protect their territory....,

Because we are humans ....we have come  up with rules and laws to let white people sit on the same bus with blacks or drink off the same water fountains and attend the same schools..none of that makes us un racial or un tribal.

I can drink off the same water fountain as you but in the end that hasn't taken away our racial and tribal genetic instincts ...it is what we think in our heads...what we do in our homes and our social groups that explains that better.

I have the best of both worlds sometimes because I have been in the situation where some old white guy didn't want me around his daughter only to fly home to be told by an elder in my family back in Uganda to get married but please "don't bring back a white girl"

I'm friends with many white people and I grow up around them..sometimes I cannot relate to black Americans....just as much as I don't find it easy to relate to Bakiga, Banyankole, Banyoro or Batoroo...mainly because I am a Muganda boy from Kasubi, but we are all Ugandans.

And when it comes to being African, Kenyans and Ugandans..etc are just as different as whites and blacks are..on these basis, I see no functional African Union in my lifetime....

I have met some cool Southafricans, I have met some nasty Nigerians, I have met people of all races..but one thing for me has been that people are both racist and tribal who are evolving to get better with each other.

Take for example all the civil wars that are ongoing in Africa as you read this..they're mainly due to tribalism,,,where one tribe attacks another...no greater example than the recent xenophobia in southern Africa..or the abduction of school girls in Negeria by a religious group....and I conclude by saying perhaps in my own reasoning rereligions are the biggest promoters or both tribal and races issues...more on that later!

I may be wrong but you would have to prove that I am wrong....

Haile Selassie said it best....the king of the only African country that was never colonized stated that ..

"until the philosophy which holds one human race superior and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is no more significant than the color of his eyes and until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war...and until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursed but never attained."

For God, for my Country and the human race...I am Jeremy Jjemba a Muganda boy of Uganda!

POEMLESS

Remind me the point of writing poems knowing that public opinion is more of a weak tyrant compared with my our private opinions of myself.

Remind that "being happy is not only happiness" ...remind me why I write from the narrowness of my experiences confined to everything I believe.

"While from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stomach"

Remind me that from the twist of my pen..nothing comes through but my made up words...remind me I love to write...

Remind me of the words that wake me up from my sleep so I can write them down into this poem....remind me of how much I read and perhaps I will wake back into normance ....remind me I am a poet and I will write you a love poem.

In respect to egotism

Remind me why I write poems about myself....perhaps if there were others I knew as well...then I wouldn't...

Remind me that I have travelled a good deal and I would say to you..
Yes
Man..is soon placed into soil for compost that is in common everywhere.

Remind me I will die one day like MOTHER did....by a seeming fate commonly called death..remind me that my pen will run dry one day

Remind me that the finest qualities of our human nature is like a bloom of spring flowers..or summer fruits to whom we pick and preserve only in the most delicate way ...but yet we do not treat each other thus tenderly.

Remind me I am guilty of the above too

..remind me that the characteristics of wisdom is not doing anything desperate...that it is never too late to give up our prejudices....

Remind me not to be like the mass of men who live of quiet despreration ...

Remind that what everyone echoes or what they do in silence only passes as true to-day and may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow ...mere smoke of personal opinions...which some trust for a spring cloud that would sprinkle fertility sun on thier faces.

Remind me that what some people say you cannot do...you can turn out and do.....

Remind me I'm poemless on a cold homeless February night...remind me I am poemless on the day I come to die.

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Former Ugandan Child Solider "Dominic Ongwen" is a victim of the state

 UGANDA TODAY!

Charles Tolit, a Ugandan human rights lawyer and journalist recently stated that when it comes to the justice for the people in Northern Uganda, "the choices for justice should not be cheap." Meaning that Dominic Ongwen's case should not be used as to settle all the layers of responsibility that occurred in a war that lasted over twenty years in Northern Uganda. 

There are many "Dominic Ongwens" in Uganda. There are lots of adults now who as children; ( 14 yrs. old Dominic was) were abducted, brain-washed, stripped of all understanding of humanity and turned into monsters, as in trained to kill other humans in cold blood by men who wanted power and control of the state at all cost. 

 The core of Uganda sits at a history that makes Uganda more like all the other African countries in Africa. Especially her history of war and child-soilders. I mean until recently...children in Africa always fought in battle, as far as history dates, there has always been child soldiers in (Africa) Uganda.

I am neither the judge nor the author of moral laws and I stand for the motion that Dominic should be tried by his people. Seeing Dominic appear at the Hague is not in line with what the leaders of (Africa) Uganda preach about the Hague. 

In Uganda's History; the only peaceful exchange of Head of State happened in 1960s when the British's Union Jack came down and the Ugandan Flag rose under the African skies to birth of a new nation.

Right from the start; Uganda faced many rebel groups who were all men fighting to gain power of the country's resources and the position as Head of State.

There were many rebel groups I said, all formed to overthrow all the government/s that ruled Uganda at that time, basically from formation all the way to 1986 when a rebel group, not the LRA...but the NRA (National Resistance Army) seized power by the gun and has ruled our nation since then. So if you ask me, Uganda is ruled by former rebels some who came into the country from other African countries like Rwanda.

The President of Uganda and the President of Rwanda were once upon a time rebels fighting the governments of those two countries.

The NRA, a rebel group...rebranded themselves as the NRM (National Resistance Movement) created a sense of democratic and constitution rule that has made them some of the longest ruling rebel group turned into government in the entire world.

They can not tell their history without mentioning how they fought for their peace, almost prompting a series of questions, such as...what else can you do to overthrow the NRA/M without using the same force they used, the power of the gun!

 

"In Africa now days those that came by the gun still rule by it.." 

Although "Dominic Ongwen's group, the Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Konyi is well known for it's contribution to  the Northern Uganda twenty plus year civil war.

For facts, it is not the only rebel group in Uganda to ever wage a civil war against the people of Uganda using child soldiers. And Uganda has found a way to move on from gun to gun...from boy to man...from girl to woman, Uganda has moved on like the waters of her Nile River/s.

It is well document that the NRA/M now in power had similar practices earlier in their coups that led them to power, child-soliders

 in fact were at the front end of the war in the 1980s, some of those former child-soilders have been forgiven by Ugandans their war hurt, and now, for the generation that fought and won, should clearly understand that the losers like "Dominic Ongwens" deserve a chance to all moral arcs of the law. 

"Dominic Ongwen" represents hundreds of former/children in this generation who were taken against their will and were trained to rape and kill their friends, families and neighbors.

I am for the motion that his trail should not serve as the highest order of justice the people of Northern Uganda can have.

 I am for the motion that his trail should be handled carefully because we know that "Dominic Ongwen" has a resume worth noting.

Taken against his will at age 14. He has managed to survive the bush for so long that he gave up himself peaceful.

With his wives and children still on the run. With comrades and other sources. The trail express many things, among these, that former child solders won't be surrendering and coming home, afraid of such treatment. And that my friends, leaves a sour test across the hills and valleys of The Pearl of the African Crown, Uganda.

And finally I cannot defend "Dominic Ongwen's" criminal record because I am not a lawyer. But those representing him should not fail to prove his case as a child the Ugandan state could not protect. Not just him but for the many others  still on the run.

For God!  For my Country!"

I am Jeremy Jjemba

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EBOLA IS NOT THE WORST THING TO COME OUT OF AFRICA

In the 1980’s or even perhaps before I was born; a young rebel leader once upon a time said, quote, that the problem with Africa was African Leadership that stayed in power for a long time, end quote.

This rebel leader fought his way into power and thirty years later. He’s still head of state in this one African country.

The so-called “Ebola outbreak” is nothing else but yet another symbol of how weak African leadership across the continent is; and how much more African leaders and Africans depend on western support but yet in denial of the fact.

 And in fact without help from the United States and other developed countries Africa will probably be a more failed Union/stated as a whole. Hear me out now!  

If these countries did not help “Our Great Leaders” stay in power, by war or Ebola, many of them would be taken out. I can just see groups and groups of different tribes just murdering each other kinda like what happened in Rwanda/Congo/Sudan/ Northern Uganda and or Liberia and such back in the day.

Let’s not mention, that in most parts, the Health Care Systems are beyond third world standard, next to nothing if anything else.

These are a bunch of “Great Leaders” who cannot control any communicable sickness like “Ebola”.

I was a child in the 1990’s and if you geographically grew up where I grew up around that time. My friend, you wouldn’t need a search engine to remind of the horrors of those days.

For as long as I have been alive, Africa has been ruled by Africans; but I can only name a few great things that have come out of this continent.

For as long as I have been alive; it has been Africans committing “genocides” against each other and blaming it on the west. It had been Africans committing “corruptions” against each other and blaming it on the west. 

You have a search engine that you know how to use pretty well; find out how many mothers die giving birth everyday. Find out how many rebels groups are kidnapping little schoolgirls and turning them into housewives.

Find out how many dictators won’t leave government posts peacefully. They have basically made a personal business out of being in government. Find those things out before you can bitch about how Ebola is the worst thing to come out of Africa, because maybe it is…. maybe it is not.

This generation of African leadership/media has this double standard on aide from western countries. When it is to their convince; it is good and needed and indeed a good and noble thing. This whole “African Union” swindle.

When it is not to their convince it is then the west sticking something up Africa’s mailbox; the outgoing part.

Nothing else can drive this point home than what’s going on lately; where are the plans of the “Africa Union” to stop the communicable infections like Ebola.

Recently a dumbass told me that the purpose of the “African Union” was apparently only to maintain peace and that I had my understanding twisted. To which I said, “really, just to keep peace.” That makes no sense to me, but then again…I don’t know.

But here is what I have seen lately. African Leaders/media houses crying for more help and African Leaders just folding their hands for Obama to send help and trust me; this time they need the help. The same people (leaders and media) that tell us that we should not welcome western ways and that we should not embrace western intervention in Africa cannot run the damn continent without western aide. Double standards or just the African way, I may ask. I don’t know! 

This Ebola, Ebola, Ebola, oh this Ebola, it is a good example of what I am talking about above; it is 2014 and we as a continent don’t have the healthcare infrastructures to control such an infection. Sad thing however is that it is going to kill many more people even with help from our friends from the west this time.

And still, it wouldn’t be the worst thing to come out of Africa, no it wouldn’t. It wouldn’t be worse than all the massive corruptions, all of the political genocides, it wouldn’t be worse than AIDS for sure and it is not going to be the worst last thing to come out of the Motherland. The worst thing to come out of this place, is this generation of leaderships who cannot provide a complex healthcare system for the population.

For God,

For the Motherland,

I am Jeremy Jjemba.  

SOME TIPS FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN DOING BUSINESS IN TOURISM

SOME TIPS FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN DOING BUSINESS IN TOURISM...( In Uganda)

By Amos Wekesa

1- Explore what you want others to explore. Exploring gives you first hand knowledge which is key selling any tourist product. Exploring uganda gave me an opportunity to love my country and that will never change and that has made it easy for me to sell.

2-Tourism requires trust and trust can never be bought,trust is simply earned over time and can be your unique selling point. Don't be in hurry to make money and look good through the wrong means. Tourists pay their money in advance and they trust that you will provide what you promise and remember the money paid to you is very hard earned money. Lots of Ugandans think the people in the western world pick money from trees,far from it, most people have more than 2 jobs and do more than 12 hrs of hard work

3-Never assume that your preferences are your customers preferences. Take time to understand preferences of your customers. Different nationalities have different preferences and understanding them will help you go very far

4-Tourism is all about people be it clients or your human resource. Over 80% of our success depends entirely on how you deal with those around you and one thing I have learnt over yrs is that it takes a lot of trying and failing while creating formidable team. A good company is good because of its human resource and your human resource must be respected, paid on time and the pay must be fair. Never try to be very important for the people that you employ

5-Do every possible to associate with people that have done better than you for mentorship purpose and make sure those people shd be able to trust you and they shd feel that you mean well for them as well something they will be able to tell even without speaking. Show gratitude to them because when people feel appreciated, they do more for you naturally. Don't hate or negatively envy those that have out performed you because that will simply make you not pay attention to that things that make them tick

6-Innovate, do some new things that are exciting rather than copying what you see others do. Mindless copying for short term gain only serves to confuse the potential clients anyway hence failure could be the result.

7-Be passionate about your country and culture because passion is infectious and draws the right people around you. Don't fake it because people are not stupid

8- As others build you, do the same to those that need your mentorship. Great Lakes safaris has and continues to train young people and the results have instead been good to us

9-make deliberate efforts in investing in the people you work with and in assets that support your entreprise continuously

10- Your pricing and information must be as accurate as possible and delight in seeing happy clients at every end of the safari and where you have gone wrong don't defend your wrong doing instead acknowledge and do something about it that will not leave a bad taste in the mind of the client. You never make the first impression, the second time

Amos is a director at Great Lakes Safiris in Uganda 

Oh Uganda, May God Uphold Thee..

It is late in 2013and I am flying out of Entebbe, Airport, to Schopol International Airpot to meet up some of my Dutch friends to hangout for a few days in Europe. 

I have flown out Entebbe many times and  in this very occasion I didn't except things to be different. 

I felt as a person would when they go to their local coffee shop where the barista knows how you want your cup. 

However in this day things were different. 

They was extra security from the road leading the airport to the airport ground itself. 

We went through it all and as we approached a group of guards who had dogs by the entrance of the airport, they were rude, they were rude to my family, they verbally harassed us and the scene could have been some what ugly. 

We were called names based in our ethnicnity, one of the guard stated that the Baganda, a tribe that I belong to were  "stupid." 

I went in schock as you would imagine, I was pissed off indeed and but I understood that I had to remain calm. 

I asked around airport security in how I could report the issues. 

I was shown a couple people in charge who wanted nothing to do with my complains but rather directed me to exist the airport and head to Kampala to report the issues at the security offices there. 

I had a plane to catch, I asked for a report I was told they don't issues reports for such cases and I moved on to my trip heartbroken and no longer trusting of the "Ugandan Government"!

I will make this story short, but my Ugandan passport was taken from me that day by goons at the airport who had no reasons to...

Those who have led Uganda for the last 30 years, which is all my lifetime and then some have not accomplished the basic principles of human rights that they themselves went out to pick up arms and overthrew a legitimate government at that time.

There seems to be a class of people who have set out to push their agenda on the rest of us. 

You see this in every level of leadership, 

The majority are ruled by the manority, 

You need to look a certain way to get quick and direct access to government services..

Go to the "internal affairs ministry", a Twemebazze beats a JJemba to get government documents any day. 

The "Uganda Police" is the most corrupt government organ, that and all the other special forces security agencies in place to keep he fountain of honor at bay...

The police, they will arrest you for anything they want, at our houses they have arrested us for being "lawless and Disorderly" and have raped the last shillings from our parents on dumb charges...

The education system is non existent' it is by far the simplest of them all to set up and education system that works, lots can be done, Ugandans work had to educate their children but have gotten nothing out of it. 

Instead of creating jobs in the country, I'm talking information technology jobs, accounting firms, banking, engerning and manufacturers, they are trading our young adults to oppressive regimes in Arab countries to work as maid. And guards at embassies. 

I am not wrong when I say that the government has failed some of us. 

The health care system is in scrambles, most people who seek health care in our country die in that process,,, you can have the money but in a place were everything is third world and the system is broken,,, money talks...

Therefore our sisters and mothers our aunts and wives die while giving birth, and motor cycle accidents are on the rise with no adquate physical therapy care, we are creating a nation of disabled people... 

The NRM is one person  supplying a few people chosen to accompany him on his venture for a life presidency! 

And perhaps only God will save Uganda from a dark path empending history from repeating itself..blood like in Luwero! 

It's true, not everyone can vote in an election but it is also true that those that engage in the process should let their votes count,,, in Africa those who came by the gun, rule by it... Elections don't matter to them...

You have leaders in parliament like the speaker who cannot lead their groups to passing laws that can benefit the Uganda of today.

Everything they do is to their own benefit and is in mockry of the every foundation their took an oath to protect.,,

Rebecca Kadaga has failed to work the her party to pass laws that the majority of Ugandans want.

Ms. Kadaga has failed to pass electoral reforms bringing back president term limits, she has instead took part in oppressing the mass passing laws against public assembly..etc....

But even if she passed these laws, orders from above won't respect them, but at least we would say she tired .,,,

Local government: our local government have the best stuctures and if the systems are allowed to work as disigned Ugandan would with no doubt benefit from the services of local government.

Local governments take in a lot of cash,to issue IDs, they take cash, to issue a letter for any matter, be for eviction or for proof of residency, they charge a few, some Local governments correct fees from vandors, shop owners, home owners etc but all that money usual goes to the government personnel,,,,

Local government from the RDC, DISO, to the GISO, to the local L C have one function and that's to correct fees for small services, they have been reduced to nothing by the central government that they accomplish nothings for the average citizen besides oppressing them... And robbing them.

In Uganda,

In the early days, 

Power came by spears not votes 

In Uganda in the early days,

Power came by the gun  not votes...

In Uganda these days

Those that came by the spears are all dead 

But those that came by the gun still rule by the gun! 

Which makes me wonder...

Is that knowledge or dis creation tot the young ??? 

...we lay our future in thy hand...