I couldn't care less if we were Hunter-Gatherers for our entire history. I will always be comfortable and proud to be what I am. Learn from the Badu:
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I do not care if Xamar was some thriving medieval port presided over by a "Barbara" Suldaan (Somali) as early as the 14th century. I do not care if we had some walled interior towns like Bardhere over a hundred years ago. I do not care if the Sayyid somehow won victories against great empires like Britain and Italy and prompted them to need fighter jets to end the affair. I do not care if some of our ancestors won victories against the Xabashis 500 years ago and rode into battle in chainmail and armored horses:
I do not care if we've had, for hundreds of years, respected Islamic scholars like Sheikh Jami of Harar whose hands were kissed at Makkah:
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I do not care if the bustling, wild and insane trade-fair of Berbera was once the envy of the whole Western Indian Ocean coast with the very Gulf it sat upon being called "The Gulf of Berbera" once upon a time. I do not care if we had market-towns in the times of the Greeks or if we were famed hardy warriors even in the eyes of our gaalo enemies:
Nor if entities like the Geledi extracted tribute from the Omanis or if our predecessors over the last 200 years were traveling in Dhows from Bombay to Mauritus and Jeddah. NONE of it matters. I am as the Bedu. Proud and confident in my humanity and mere existence itself. I look down on pathetic people who need shit like "My ancestuhhh build BYRAMID!" to feel whole. It's utterly pathetic and I adore how they ignore that, throughout history, most people were peasants and slaves and only a tiny minority lived well. You are not likely the descendants of Pharaohs but overwhelmingly the descendant of those humble Fellah predecessors working their fields but be PROUD and comfortable in yourself nonetheless, you ninny.
