this thread....
1. I see you have addressed some of Selassie questions but what was life like (from what you have heard) during his reign? His UN speeches are just
I heard his cats ate from golden plates while the people starved. How much of that is truth
2. Why no love for the fellow East Africans on the coli(Kenyans, Tanzanians, Ugandans, etc) I know we darker than yall but this
aint right
3. As far as cuisine, that coffee is just
lol, your screenname was the nickname the Rastas gave my brother in prison. That and "Selassie son"
1. Depends on who you were and what tribe you were in, Amharas love him, Tigrays kinda like him(if they aren't Eritrean, Eri's HATE Selassie), and everyone else was indifferent or had a major gripe with him. My family ate good during those days because they owned land and property and tribally they are mixed but are mostly Amhara like Selassie was, the men on my father's side were guerilla fighters during the Italian occupation so Selassie gave them land, my grandfather was able to open a school from that. My mom is real nostalgic of those times she speaks glowingly of him. She went to a mission school with African American teachers, African American culture was prevalent in the capitol also, people were jammin to Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, etc, our money was worth more so things were way cheaper before Selassie was overthrown. The rural community(which is the majority) was fukked up on the other hand, and yeah his lions ate great compared to most of the rural people I dunno if they ate off gold plates but it wouldn't surprise me cuz he loved his lions. It's sad, by the time of his end he had become more image than substance. Things started out great but he didn't move with the times quick enough, he didn't recognize Eritrea which brought him conflict, and the intrigues of Imperial court stalled him from bringing needed reforms. He was in a bad place, but when he was overthrown and assassinated he was replaced by a paranoid sociopathic killer that littered the streets with dead bodies and bullets. bytch ass nikka took all the land and almost all the property my family gained from their hard work and service to H.I.M. and he just chillin in Harare in retirement he lucky somebody don't scope him for slaughtering all those civilians and turning our reputation into a bunch of pathetic, famine stricken individuals.
The League of Nations speech gives me chills especially since he did it in Amharic and not in some cac language. Bob did him justice when he sung "War".
2. I got love for yall, my favorite coffee is Africafe straight outta Dar es Salaam. Oh, and the majority of Horners don't look light skinned they black as fukk. I put the disclaimer in the op that Horners aren't the only East African, most of the time when people on the coli bring up East Africans they talkin bout the Horners so I just named it that. If my East African brehs wanna get in on this thread they can, we family out chea.
3. Yeah the coffee is super strong, we put the world on to the coffee wave it's grown in a section of Sidamo called "Kaffa" hence the name. But if you ask me, I love our tea way more than the coffee.
All jokes aside, it's because this society generally frowns on long hair or facial hair. 
. I used to clown her when she called the letter Z "zedd". With that said, I was watching a program on al Jazeera about a soccer team in Kenya that was tryna bridge the differences between tribes.....is tribal conflict that bad in Kenya or is it just a few groups out of the 40+?
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to see, it's like they're too comfortable with their sexuality.