We Drank from the Same River, Yet Learned to Thirst Apart

By Samuel MUTABAZI

 we are all born into stories we didn't write. Before we even learn how to ask question the world, we inherit its division, race, tribe, class, and religion. these lines are drawn long before our arrival and passed down through generations like unquestioned truths. We grow up hearing who to trust, who to fear, and who to blame. Yet, as we mature, a quiet realization begins to surface none of this begun with us.

The danger lies on how easily these inherited beliefs become our own. When we accept them without reflection, we unknowingly continue cycles of misunderstanding, resentment, and conflict. We repeat the language, adopt the biases, and defend the divisions as if they were natural laws. But they are not, they are                                                                                 learned.  And what is learned can be also unlearned.

Choosing differently requires courage. It means questioning the narratives we were raised on and listening to voices we were taught to ignore. It asks us to see people not as categories, but as individuals with stories just as complex as our own. Ending division doesn't start with Governments or policies, it starts in very moments, in conversations, in empathy, in the decision to understand rather than judge.

"Bury down apartheid, discrimination, and racial" is more than a call against a historical system, it is a deeply personal challenge. It asks each of us to confront the divisions within our own thinking and take responsibility for the future we help create. We may not start the fire, but we have the power to stop feeding it. And in that choice lies on possibility of more united, more human world.

black men said it's white men, white men said it's black men? white men said it's colors? when will the world stop blame each other?


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