No Tribe Is Superior Or Inferior To Another In Our Homeland Ghana

A wag I know, observed  the other day, that there is something particularly obnoxious about the miserable atavists,  who go online to social media websites such as Facebook.com, and new media websites like www.ghanaweb.com, and insult others -  merely on account of the part of Ghana they hail from.

Worst of all,  are those who live overseas in foreign lands,  where on a daily basis,  they themselves are at the receiving end of soul-destroying  racial prejudice:  on account of their skin colour.

You would think that such individuals would be more tolerant and sensitive in their interaction with others -  as a result of the daily humiliation they themselves suffer because of their  hue.

Is it the case, perhaps, dear  reader, that such individuals - some of  whom  hide behind multiple  monikers to insult others on websites like www.ghanaweb.com -    might perhaps actually be terribly unhappy souls in their private lives, one wonders?

It must be  so limiting not being able to see others as individuals, but instead constantly resort to using derogatory language online, to denigrate them, because one lacks the humanity and the imagination  to see beyond banal stereotypes.

Being lucky to be cosmopolitan in  outlook myself, because of a background that blessed me with blood-relatives from many tribal groupings, I feel terribly  sorry for those individuals who are obsessed with the issue of where an accident of birth placed their fellow human beings,   who become  the object of their boorish narrow-mindedness and tribal-supremacist   venom -  just for not sharing the same tribal background with them.

If the reality, dear reader,  is that there is ample empirical evidence that proves beyond doubt, that  we more or less share the same DNA, and if it is also the case that when one goes back thousands  of years,  the reality is that  we actually share the same origins, too, what justifies the absurd feelings of superiority that some have - in what is a scientific age in which we  know that no matter what yardstick is used, no  tribe is superior or inferior to another, in our homeland Ghana?