This thread shows how people may bring forth things that may be new to some in a respectful way. For me personally i've never really taken on the Oromo issue. The times previously when stuff was posted on this site about the oppression of the Oromos in Ethiopia, i ignored it. However this thread and a discussion i had with Ayinde helped to sensitize me about the Oromo issue and the dark skin vs light skin aspect to it.

It is good when one can come to the reasoning table without being set firm in one parochial view, because often when that happens people are unable to engage a reasoning honestly, because they not open to what the other person has to say. When one approaches reasoning as a learning tool, and is prepared to think honestly about things that are painful, hard, and against the mainstream, then self development will take place.