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A Prayer to be Wrong (An Exhortation in One Paragraph) By Pius Adesanmi

January 3, 2012

Never, in the history of our country, has a negligible minority been so right. Never has that minority hoped so fervently to be wrong, to be proven wrong! And never has the avoidable error of the majority been so swift in raining the consequences foreseen and predicted by the minority upon the land.

Never, in the history of our country, has a negligible minority been so right. Never has that minority hoped so fervently to be wrong, to be proven wrong! And never has the avoidable error of the majority been so swift in raining the consequences foreseen and predicted by the minority upon the land.

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It didn’t have to come to this. You told them but they abused you; you warned them but they cursed you; they unfriended and blocked you on Facebook; they hounded you on Twitter; harassed your friends and relatives; they asked your mother to warn you. They called you unpatriotic. And now ill fares the land. They seek the relief of tears but even their lachrymal glands are too weather-beaten, too defeated to yield any harvest. They seek to gnash their teeth but King Jona, the fishbone they wedged into their own throats with their own hands, prevents even the movement of their distraught jaws. And now I see King Jona’s geniuses all around me – comrades made genius by King Jona because they predicted the obvious that the majority could not see or did not want to see. I see them fall into the temptation of elation. I see the confidence of the vindicated. I hear them gloat. I hear them say: “I told you so!” But I say to my brothers and sisters in the community of the despised and derided minority: gloat not for our work has only just begun. I say to them: the error of the majority is the proverbial sky that falls but fails to discriminate on whose head it falls. I say to them: King Jona is a rain of ill-augury that does not fall exclusively on the compound of the kool-aiders who imposed him on our country. I say to them: we must remain in the trenches for 2015 is at hand and our enemies are at work, organizing the next rape while we agonize or dwell on the tragic error of the majority. I say to them: we were right this time but may we be wrong in our predictions of worse scenarios for 2015! And the time for us to start struggling to be wrong is NOW.

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