Dear Aiga,
I am a frequent visitor of your site. And I appreciate your commitment to stand for what you believe in! As a citizen, I come to your site to hear views and news, as I do to other sites. Thus far, even though I have seen some views that I wish to have seen presented differently, i never thought of writing you and letting you know.

I will first mention the outright reason that made me write this for you. I have seen the video of Senator Inhofe's speech. I don't have an issue about his support or opposing of a bill. That is entirely his right. But what he said about the adopted child and the way he 'rescued her from dogs' was extremely offending. I am not saying that children are not abused, or left on roads etc in Ethiopia. Such incidences are there with us, as are here in the US, remember the person who put her baby in a microwave, a college girl in California  throwing her baby in a garbage. Those are just incidences and could not amount to referring an entire continent or country (including the US) as the way the Senator put it. I will be straight forward here, in Ethiopia Tigrians, whom your site appears to be associated with are much more caring and surrounded by their kids how ever poor they may be. Remember the story of the 1984 famine where a mother died on her way back home from a distribution site eager to feed her child before she did herself.. As an Ethiopian, thats the motherhood and parent hood that I know.

Coming back to your sites reaction about the Senator's speech, my brothers and sisters, you left me in aghast when you ignored this fact and tried to represent the reaction of some people as 'extreme diaspora's' and said no word about the other part. I never wanted to be part of the game of labeling and boxing people. The people you refer to as 'extreme' may be so from your perspective, and so are you from theirs. Remember that there are reasoned and wise citizens who can perceive and judge, despite you two's narrow judgments. I leave that here and I present my APPEAL to you. Please mind what you are after, and think of the future and the generations to come.. Are we  not spreading/brooding hatred by leaving them such blindfolded support and opposition? Do you think this way we would end up in harmony? Do you think this would serve the interests of our poor mothers, fathers and brothers and sisters back home who have no agenda than eating, surviving, learning and being hopeful of the future?

ebakachihu ebakachihu sile fetari bilachihu, come to your senses and try to pave a middle ground for our kids and future generations. I could write more but am at loss now.

Thank you for reading this and I appreciate it if you can post it, if not at least let whoever is in charge of the site read it with a clear mind, I assure you I am JUST an ETHIOPIAN and who appreciates and respects peoples' political views as long as they present it peacefully and without hatred!

Selam hunu