The following is a conversation ongoing on Facebook that was triggered by the posting of the photograph and comment above (that photo of an innocent small boy has been widely used for Luo bashing in conversations of a certain community right across social media). The varied responses received which I reporduce below should be an eye opener to thinking Kenyans...
G.M: True
K.C.: weee wacha uchokozi
R.N.: I do feel that this is under the belt M.K., that is a child who has no personal input to your post!! Just my opinion.
M.K.: Mmmmmh noted
O.A.: Some people just thrive on abusing others and in my youth no female of their community ever denied me ati I was not circumcised
M.K.: Thats Because you must have been legendary in matters after hours
K.C.: My buddy M.K. what we need most in our beautiful country right now is tolerance, empathy and the ability to see things from the other guys' point of view. In my personal view JUBILEE is the best, most efficient government we have had since indipendence. Try and get an ID replacement and you will agree with me. HOWEVER it is also true that our much maligned brother on the other side of the divide won the election in 2007 (by a landslide). Turn the tables and imagine what you would have felt. I know you are NOT a tribalist coz I know you well and your close friends too who run across the political divide.
M.K.: SoooooooO??? Make your point sir!
M.K. .....and what landslide is this you are referring to?
M.O.: Train up a child in the way he should go...and when he is old he shall not depart from it...
M.K.: Proverbs 22.-6
K.D.M.: I thought this was an okay post - nothing to do with anyone. Let's not catch feelings unnecessarily.
C.M.: Let's make this brief. .
Denigrating anyone based on their ethnic or religious background is myopic and dangerous.
Veiled tribalism/racism disguised as humour is downright shameful. Having being raised in a cosmopolitan neighbourhood with people of various backgrounds and nationalities has made me privileged. I can't say the same for all. . R.N. thanks for your courage. . With you 100%. . way below the belt. .!!
M.K.: I don't know about you, but if before you comment, bother to reflect and count the number of times you have thrown a stone pre/post circumcision. ....mmmmmh
K.C.: How many US presidents have been circumcized? Very very few indeed. And that's the toughest job in the world. Also latest research has revelealed that circumcision is one of the causes of erectile dysfunction in men from a very young age (it all has to do with sensitivity). Finally it is very easy to profile any tribe in Kenya in a negative way. No tribe is superior I choose to deal with and profile individuals instead. And so if one politician or me for instance gets under your skin why profile the entire community I come from?
K.C.: GOD has interesting ways of humbling us. Take a situation where you have a life-threatening illness and you are referred to the top specialist who happens to belong to a certain tribe you have been profiling and ridiculing (very likely in this case as you all know, these guys are brilliant and end up as top doctors, engineers etc). Would you do a Kimunya (I would rather die than...)????
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One human life lost because of a political protest that was supossed to be peaceful is bad enough but today at least two people died. Two precious Kenyan lives. My sources on the ground say that the official figures are as usual much lower than the reality.
According to Reuters NAIROBI at least two protesters were shot dead in Kenya today as anti-government protests turned violent, with police opening fire to disperse demonstrators in the country’s third biggest city, Kisumu. One corpse had clear bullet wounds according to Red Cross workers on the ground.
The news of the deaths spread like wildfire and the reaction of the usually emotionall charged good people of Kisumu was very predictable. Police opened fire before using tear gas and water cannons to quell the protests.
If you are surprised you shouldn't be. Because this is Kenyan politics where grandstanding and daring your opponent is normal and you never give an inch lest you be labelled weak. You see the electorate abhor weak politicians. In fact Kenyan voters can forget the worst sin by any politician but NOT that of cowardice. Just ask Kalonzo Musyoka how long and hard he has been working to shrug off that image in vain.
But who suffers in all this? Who takes the brunt of the contest when two African elephants fight? The grass naturally. And today the grass people of Kenya have suffered greatly. Remember that most times people who are killed or badly injured are the innocent. The participants usually come prepared with exit routes and plans all mapped out well in advance. So spare a thought for that poor dad and bread winner whose kids are waiting at home but may not realize that they will never see them again.
The fortunate ones are the dads who will go home empty-handed to a family that will sleep hungry tonight. All because it was impossible for them to do what they do every day to earn money in their miserable hand to mouth existence.
So who is to blame?
Both sides of the divide are WRONG in this IEBC-must-go issue.
CORD has not exhausted other avenues of sending the IEBC commissioners home. Indeed there are many other more effective ways of forcing the JUBILEE government to the negotiation table. Clearly Raila Odinga has never heard of Mahatma Gandhi.
JUBILEE are wrong in gleefully asking CORD to use parliament knowing very well that they dominate the house in numbers and any motion by CORD will be dead in the water before it even starts.
This is NOT news and neither is it rocket science.
Now I have a question for all those die-hard supporters of either side about to go ballistic on me. What if the tables were turned and CORD was in power? Would they be comfortable with JUBILEE protests, peaceful or otherwise?
Bottom line ALL politicians in Kenya are exactly the same. Wanainchi get out of your stinking tribal pits and realize that what we do in every election is replace one devil with another.
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