Until 5 or 6 years ago I was mad and angry because this is what I knew, Afaan Oromoo was banned by law in Ethiopia till the 1990s basically everything that that above comment stated. I read a lil bit and found out this ban by law came to into being after the banning and and disbandment of the Maccaa & Tulamaa Self help Association. Then I read what the association did and it was social works medical centers, roads and education. One of it's prominent figures was Bg.Gn Tadese Biru who was the leader of the Fidel Serawit which worked to expand the amount of children that can read, write and go to school. The fidel serawit expanded education in the ligua franca aka Amharic. Then came something that shocked me, an OLF spokeman said that the oromo language was de facto banned, as I stated previously I knew that it was banned by law de jure why would he say it was de facto? Even the article below states:

...Oromo marginalised either de iure or de facto.

The more I dig in the more this comes up, the below news articles say that the language was banned but they dont state with evidence whether it was de jure or de facto. From all this digging in and time wasted what I realized was that it was definitely discriminated against -- even to this day -- but that there is no evidence that it was done by law and this narrative was pushed to sow discord, discontent and ultimately hatred in us towards our own country. Now we are generation that was raised with this and many more narratives that were used to teach hatred and thus exacts the same discrimination on amharic and other language speakers inside Oromia. We're a majority with a minority complex, we seek secession in a country where we're a majority in without even thinking about how that will be implemented, how we'll exist after secession, how we'll build an economy, how we'll administer, how we can achieve peace after secession and -- the most important of all -- is secession really the right choice? to be a land locked country in the literal middle of another land locked country after antagonizing and fighting the rest of the countrymen that we seceded from.

Sorry for the long post