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Sorry I have neglated this blog, instead I have been posting on Somaliarena for while now...

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Hope reeks to bring in bounty
Hope we chant to transcendent race and to replace with pedestal of “yes we can.”
From the first line of his speech, President Barack Obama …fellow citizens…the masses come to feed on the passion of an uplifting message of hope like a thirsty aunts crawlers. The inaugural speech resonated with both the rural dreamers in small villages all over Africa to big city dwellers. The speech was characterized by some as harmonious which was extending invitations and pledges to forge and share better understanding than previous predecessors were willing on Americans World Affair.
Yes, America shows that it can make a progress and be proactive when its citizens choose. How can this paradigm be fitting to Somalia’s crisis of impotence delivery to labor any solution for peace, prosperity and lasting tranquility. Should the world give up on us, since; we have become incapable to be competent enough to wheel our destiny. What strategy should we oblige given that our old paradigm is obsolete? If anything America is good at strategy and PR. And the world digest this vary lesson which is absent from our capacity to emulate progressive thinking. Responsibility is an inescapable; we heard being said over and over that the truth tends to bite back. We have committed to annihilate and eradicate reason, when face with loyalty to the blood line campaign of destruction. That which bears reason before tribe is an act to commit treason nudges in our mind like it’s ingrained into our frontal lope. Reason sit silently alone and voiceless in the background of ignorance. The Somali circles shunted reason because it inconvenience to the truth which our good country, some time ago; was an active participant the moral grounds of reason. That we need each other and there are more similarities we share than difference we proclaim. Our pedigree and culture homogeneity is unique to our people. When we look at each other, we don’t see our collective good that the world praises; the hospitality and generosity discover as our attribute. But we choose to temper with motivations of predeceased old contempt and retaliatory creed for one another. So, we have become the accounts of tribal agenda’s of horrific deeds and misery for one another.
Should we limit ourselves to our subversive insignificant motivations for lame excuse to be better conqueror of the day as a solely available tool to self governance? We should envy our deterrence to ineffective warlords and authority. We are the biggest consumers of nepotism and I hope we learn to get the crucial cure not utopian society but a governing style that praises our roots and compliments the drive to make Somalia a better place for all generations. Nepotism in our society is that evil whispers that tally your kinship on compensate revenges achieved but never, reckons with compassionate human side of Kith before kin.

Please,,,,and please with an emphasis on our accent, yeah this is the few times that writer wishes to invoke the pages that contain the words in this black ink to muster the tears of the crying wolf. Forgive for this reference, I don’t believe so, that I’m nearly anything close to writer but a well wisher of the imagination. Again forgive for any grammatical mistakes that are not evident to me. Rhetorically, before I send your mind wondering, let me express my two cent. Organizes, mobilize and be active in your communities my fellow youth. A friend of mine said best, we have beautiful coast and he added I have the time and the money to go to a vacations but I can’t rejoice in my home. Enough of my ranting enjoy January 20, 09.

Tomorrow we will been awaken to whole new president, the first of many and man that will be the 44th president of the United State of America Mr. Obama. Some might call it nothing short of a miracle the victory that he commenced tonight here in this nation. I believe Senator John had made a good reconciliatory speech, eventhough; some the crowd were not responsive to him sometimes. The road to change is not pave with gold but rather change will have to come from both side of the party line. Its answer lies with masses. Those that fought for change must align the country back to its feet again. Obama alone can correct everything, you and I must take our part of the burden and wear it proudly.I would like to thank Kaalay voter initiative for mobilizing Somali voters and providing interpretation different precinct which Somali’s voters casted their pallot. This group of young people answer the call to the missing piece to take action by providing their services to the community with no affirm affiliation prescribing what was needed. They made a great impact on Columbus Somali vote for Obama. I will not mension no name but their is one particular individual that heads this group and I thank her as well.

From: Somali Documentary Project <info@tariqtarey.com>Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:13 AMSubject: Somali Documentary Project's 1st book released 09/05/

Dear Friends,

After five years of documenting Somali Daispora, the Somali Documentary Project has just released its first book, The Somali Disapora: A Journey Away. This book is unique in its comprehensive examination of the Somali Diaspora in America. This is a story of an optimistic people as they struggle through the desperate challenges of fleeing a civil war and as they find that they must face different challenges in America. Photographer Abdi Roble and writer Doug Rutledge begin their journey in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, where over 150,000 Somali people have come to escape the violence. While in Dadaab, Roble and Rutledge met the family of Abdi Salaam, who was later resettled in Anaheim, California. They documented the troubles and the triumphs of the family in Anaheim and then followed them when they moved to Portland, ME. They also document the lives of Somali people in Columbus, Ohio, which is the second largest Somali community in the United States, and in Minneapolis, which has the largest Somali Community. So the story develops from the refugee camp, where people struggle just to eat, to Minneapolis, where Somali doctors and dentists make life for everyone even better in one of America's more sophisticated urban settings.

The Somali Disapora: A Journey Away offers the intimate opportunity to introduce yourselves to your Somali neighbors across the country. This book includes the work that was recently displayed in the Columbus Museum of Art. The faces in these photographs tell their own stories of optimism confronting perhaps the most horrible conditions with which human beings ever have to cope, while documenting the many successes that Somali people have achieved in America. The essays weave these stories together to tell the tale of a people who have moved to a new land, while maintaining their unique and meaningful way of life.
The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away will be released by the University of Minnesota Press on September 5th, 2008.

If you can, please come to the book signing at the Columbus Museum of Art on September 13th from 1 to 3pm.
Columbus Museum of Art480 E Broad StColumbus, OH 43215(614) 221-6801
If you can't make the book signing and wish to purchase a book, please go to the Web Site of the University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/R/roble_somali.html
Sincerely,
-- Tariq Tarey
Project Manager
Somali Documentary Project http://www.somaliproject.org/

It's been a while since, I update this blog. My laptop got stolen just past this past week...as the saying goes thief once a thief always a thief. the rest is long story...

I'm glad that finals are over! I have nothing esle to say. ...