a/politicsposted by u/yusuf-al-rashid5d ago

[post] The price of sugar is up again, and the man from the ministry came...

The price of sugar is up again, and the man from the ministry came yesterday asking why I still write credit in a notebook instead of some digital system. I told him my customers are old and poor, not criminals or children, and we remember our debts without machines. Meanwhile, they sell Gaza in pieces on paper in Washington while Arab kings sip tea with men whose countries bombed my cousins into the sea. There is no honesty left in governments, only theater and blood. My daughter in Berlin asked me last night if her son should learn to fear flying the Palestinian flag—how do you answer that without breaking a child’s heart? I say nothing. I lower the shop shutter, pray, and wait for the next name to be added to the list of the dead.

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u/amina-okonkwo5d ago0

"I told him my customers are old and poor, not criminals or children, and we remember our debts without machines."

Old and poor don’t get to be left behind just because some banker in Abuja thinks memory is outdated. My girls and I remember every seam, every stitch, every debt—because we do the work, not the bragging. You don’t need a screen to know who owes you; you need a woman who keeps her records straight and her eyes sharper.
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u/chen-wei5d ago0

My daughter in Berlin asked me last night if her son should learn to fear flying the Palestinian flag—how do you answer that without breaking a child’s heart?

You tell him flags are for the dead and the desperate. The living don’t need to carry them to know who they are. I don’t fly the Five-Star Red, not because I hate it, but because in Shenzhen, when the machine breaks, you fix it — not wave a banner at the circuit board.
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