Comments on: Little Ethiopia: A thriving community in DC

By: bidatiam

bidatiam — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:30:06 +0000

I think clustering around DC is a form of separation anxiety. The US has many other states, I don't know why you have to be in one are until everyone feels like you are taking their jobs and neighborhoods, venture out and see what's up. As for me, DC is just too much abesha, it's like yemender nuro, but yimechachihu.

By: Hagos Araya

Hagos Araya — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:32:37 +0000

It doesn’t matter how many Ethiopians live around Washington dc as long as we dont make no diffrence using our significant number. There are only a few Ethiopians who are restlessly working to fight the weyane regime; the others are just selfish combination of population that only works for them selves. In addition to that most of us seem to be proud of our history including having a country never been colonized, having a county men and women who had fought and defeated the Italian invaders, having a country of rich of culture…..we tend to be proud of the good things while we don’t to join with those who want to bring the good things for our country. I mean we have always proud of the past while we should’ve ashamed of our current situation in Ethiopia. We have always feel proud to admire what was done by our grand, grand fathers while we don’t want to do or contribute nothing for our current crises including fighting the major Ethiopian enemy weyane. So, I urge all the Ethiopians in Diaspora to stop feeling proud by what we haven’t done, of course was done by our previous generation and start to step up and contribute our own part especially fighting the weyane regime which is the cause of our complex problem including famine, malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, unemployment and in general lack of democracy that is all in all comes from bad governing system of weyane regime. So let’s start asking our selves what have I done to prevent the weyane up coming atrocities rather than fooling our selves with the past history. I still admire and give a big place for our fathers and mothers who had given us Ethiopia with its optimum sovereignty. While we still keep watching the crimes of weyane including giving of our country land that was protected by the blood of many Ethiopians to a neighborhood country. Curently Ethiopia is in a shape that tend to turn out as somalia while we feel prestigious about ethiopia. I rather simply say…..SHAME ON US …who are not taking steps to fight weyane……

By: des

des — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:03:04 +0000

I noticed white business owners seem to wait for Ethiopians to clean up and popularize an area before they move in for the kill. Like they did in the 18th street area. I am afraid it will not be long before they are pushed out from the little Ethiopia center again.

By: Bojunbo Babangida

Bojunbo Babangida — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:13:51 +0000

Mr. Garra,
Juz to calrify things for you… the Ethiopian population in and around DC is 200K. The total number of guests who came to attend the ESFNA tournament are 31-32K. So… there is no wrong information. Only a bit of ClArIfIcAtIoN will do the trick….:)

By: Garra

Garra — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:12:58 +0000

I read in Washington Post there were 31,000 Ethiopians in the DC area. Now it is 200,000. Do people have problems with numbers? How can you get 200,000 or 150,000 out of a census of 31,000. I just hate wrong information, best wishes to you all from my native land.