Dr. Togba-Nah Tipoteh
Any commentary is useful to the extent that it can help people to learn how to use non-violence to solve a societal problem. This commentary is coming out at this time to help in calming the tensions about whether some persons have the morality to be credible to be elected or appointed to any position of trust.
We can learn from Liberian culture. All the Liberian languages tell us that we all come from the same place. We are all children of the One and Only Creator, the Creator of the world and all human beings and non-human beings in the world. From this knowledge about our Common Creator, we learn how to respect one another. In each of the Liberian languages, this Creator has a name, as in the following examples: Nnangala in Kpelle; Kamba in Vehee (wrongly called Vai); Ahbie in Dahn (wrongly called Gio); Walla in Mahn (wrongly called Mano); Glaypor in Bassa, and Nyinhswa in Kraowihn (wrongly called Kru). Through the realization that we have the same Creator and, therefore, we are the same human beings, we know that we have equal inalienable rights, as found in the constitution of Liberia. From this knowledge flows the reality that humanity brings morality which brings credibility.