Ohemaaa, so many people reveal a great deal about themselves - through their uncouth utterances in cyberspace. What is Okaompah-Awhofe's drivel about this time?
It is yet another tribalistic diatribe - full of illogical statements. Ohemaa, every little school child in our country knows that inherited privilege is the greatest enemy of any meritocracy.
They see it in the many incompetent square pegs in round holes, up and down our country - living off the fat of the land in their cushy gilded sinecures: the result of nepotism gone mad.
Secondly, those selfsame schoolchildren know that when God created humankind, he did not create a special race of humans called "royals". Throughout history, it has been the most bloodthirsty and the most cunning who made themselves into "royals".
The last one we had in Africa was His Imperial Majesty Bokassa 1 of the Central African Empire, was it not? If you go to Swaziland today, you will see why we are lucky that no kingdoms actually exist in our country, in a strictly legal sense - this being a Republic (thank goodness)!
Every progressive society has abolished feudalism. It is not an accident that we still lag far behind every one of those nations that did so. The modern-day monarchs of the developed world, wield no executive power - having been stripped of power by their people: in their march towards progress and the creation of prosperous and egalitarian societies.
Is it not sad that a man who uses language like that, prides himself on being "royal" - and an ill-mannered fellow like that presumably thinks that makes him superior to his fellow human beings?
Yet, those who suffer from a "superiority complex" suffer from the same mental illness that those who suffer from an "inferiority" complex do - both make unrealistic assumptions about those they interact with and know next to nothing about: as either being better than they are or inferior to them!
Ohemaa, tribal supremacists must always be separated from the rest of the members of their ethnic group - for, they are extremists of the worst kind: totally different from their more sane fellow tribesmen and women.
You will find them in all the ethnic groups in our country, without exception. They are our equivalent of the odious white supremacists of the Western world - who ignorantly think they are superior to people of colour: whom they regard as sub-human.
Luckily for our country, however, people of Okaompa-Awhofe's ilk are a tiny minority in all our ethnic groups. We are very fortunate to have a younger generation that thinks of itself as Ghanaian rather than Dagomba, Kusasi, Frafra, Ga Dangbe, Ewe, Akyem, Asante; Krobo, Gonja, Nzema, etc. etc.
Ask the next group of young Ghanaians you encounter, where they are from. The answer they give you, will most probably be a version of one a young man gave me once, when posed a similar question, by me: " My father is Asante and my mother is from Awutu. But I have never been to the birthplace of both parents. We have always lived in Accra, where I was born." He has spent all his young life in the airport residential area!
Ohemaa, I always use my own extended family as an example of the typical extended Ghanaian family. I have cousins (all of them blood relations!) whose parents are Asante; Akyem; Ewe; Krobo; Dagomba;Fante; and Ga Dangbe.
I myself was born in Kwadaso, Kumasi - and regard Otumfuo Opoku-Ware 11 as the greatest of the modern-day Asantehenes: because he understood that in the national interest he had to keep a low public profile.
Many Ghanaians genuinely mourned that great man, when he died - because they understood the immense role he had played in keeping our country united and strife-free with his humility, during his lifetime. I can say without fear of contradiction that there was not a single area in our country, where he was not respected.
The real solution to the menace to the cohesion of our country posed by the lunacy of the Okaompah-Awhofes, is to make our presidents our elected Omanpanins - the world's first elected monarchs!
We can do same with our district chief executives (whom we ought to elect on a party political basis, if we really want to make our rural areas progress and prosper!) - and call them paramount chiefs of their districts.
Naturally, we will operate on the assumption that all Ghanaian citizens are "royals" and can be elected to be King of Queen of the Royal Kingdom of Ghana, or elected as a paramount chief of one of our districts.
We will then get those surviving relics of our feudal past, to pay allegiance to our Omanpanin! Like the Maharajahs of the Republic of India, they will play no formal role at any state function - and be ordinary (but important - if they earn our respect by their deeds, i.e.!) citizens and perhaps find a new role for themselves as the "custodians" of our rich and diverse culture!
Hmmm, Ghana - ayeasem oo: easem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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