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My English writing skill is not perfect but it will not stop me from expressing my opinion. So here I write.

I take this article as someone else is speaking my mind!! As an Ethiopian it makes me ashamed and heart broken. Our people's selfishness ingrained in their blood that they don't feel any guilt when they take advantage of everyone including their own family, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends and their customers. A while back there was an article by a Japanese guy saying Ethiopians IQ level is less than the average IQ of other people in the world. A lot of the so called highly educated Ethiopian wrote back in defending themselves. But I think he is telling the truth.

If Ethiopian people have high IQ level of Brain Power,

• Ethiopian natural recourses could have been fully used to produce enough crops to feed its people, to export to foreign countries and get money. That is every soil, plants, stones, rocks, rivers, lakes, domestic animals, herbs, spices could be used to eradicate poverty from Ethiopia.
• Every western technology given in Schools, Collage and Universities should have been used to produce solution to poverty and a better standard of living for the country,
• Ethio Doctors and Scientists would have identified and acknowledged approximately 95% of Ethio people function bellow average mental ability and create brain booster vitamins and feed them so that bright mind people will be produced.
• at least some honesty and trustworthiness in Ethio people would be found
• less evil thinkers and doers that hurt their family, friends and Ethiopian society. Such are the past and present government leaders. They are not leaders, they are people’s life and country destroyers who low IQ.

If Ethiopian people have high IQ level of Brain Power, there wouldn’t

• be making 90% of mistakes in the job they do and in the decision they make all the time which results failure and lose of country’s economy every single day.
• be a bunch of balloon heads who only know to worship jeans, hair colour, shoes, purse, lipsticks, vehicle and other neon light materials.
• Be too many Ethio people with empty pride who think they are above all human beings because they have natural beauty and because of the cloth they buy and wear to look like American Hollywood successful and talented singers, dancers.
• Be too many copy cat singers and dancers instead there would be scientists, inventors, movers and shakers by now

If Ethiopian people have high IQ level of Brain Power, there would be less
• Fighting and destroying each other in churches, communities, individual and government establishments
• promiscuity, cheating on husband or wife, girlfriend/boyfriend calling themselves Arada
• dumb people who depend and expect others to take care of them but learn the basics of taking care of their own life by any means

People with High IQ level of Brain will use every single education he or she had learned to the highest degree level of accuracy; he or she will have a vision for simple or hard problems and so creates or invents solutions. He or she will have the ability to recognize what works and what does not work, to look beyond temporary gain and so Ethiopia could have achieved the standard of living seen in developed countries. Our people, from poor to rich, uneducated to educated; in educated sense from high school – College/University–Certificate – PHD it does not make any difference that they all have bad society and country damaging character. It is obvious that we see incapability and incompetence from low level workers to the leaders of country.

That is why regardless of many Doctors, Engineers, Managers, Business Administrators, Electricians etc. in our country, most are incapable of solving hunger problems and poverty. The recent power shortage in our country is evidence of how our so called leaders and educated people brain is less capable of finding a solution for this problem. Instead, they blame foreign country for not giving them money and they just sit and watch the country's economy and citizen’s business income destroyed.

The only thing they are undoubtedly capable of is focusing on achieving material position and money by any means they can. They do this by the art of lies, harm and hurting their own people mentally, physically and emotionally, systematically cheating and stealing from the people. They have no feeling of guilt even when they cheat, lie and taking advantage of their own blood. All they care about is money and shiny worldly material.

In the "Who Do You Trust" article, the writer says there are people who you can trust but hard to find them. He is right. There are extremely low number of Ethiopian people with high IQ level who are capable of doing the job they are educated about as well as other tasks and who are honest. However, we don't know about them and can not find them because they are very small in number. It is sad, to see even majority of youth in Ethiopia focus only on materials position rather than focusing on and working on how to reach high level of achievements for their future. But again it is what they are seeing around them that is lies, empty pride, cheating, cloth, shoes etc.

I do believe the Ethiopian people need to be thought about morality and humanity. There is a strong need to teach and if possible to force our people to stop being dishonest, liars, cheaters, robbers and cruelest for personal gain. The Ethiopian people’s mentality requires a drastic change of thinking and doing things. That is they need to learn to care and support each other in order to help their country and themselves.

There, I let it out.

"Make no mistake: history is on the side of these brave Africans, and not with those who use coups or change Constitutions to stay in power. Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions."

Obama furthered his speech as:

"As we provide this support, I have directed my Administration to give greater attention to corruption in our Human Rights report. We have a responsibility to support those who act responsibly and to isolate those who don't, and that is exactly what America will do."

"Governments that respect the will of their own people are more prosperous, more stable, and more successful than governments that do not.

This is about more than holding elections – it's also about what happens between them. Repression takes many forms, and too many nations are plagued by problems that condemn their people to poverty. No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves, or police can be bought off by drug traffickers. No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not democracy, that is tyranny!"

I only wish that Meles and his gang read the article — not that they will change their old ways but let them be aware that they can't continue hoodwinking the Ethiopian people and the rest of the world forever with their lies.

Also I verymuch hope that the State Department, the White House, the US Congress and 10 Downing Street get copies of this wonderful article.

Thank you Professor.