Thread by @wmnjoya

I watch this documentary by @AfUncensored and I'm so frustrated. Because I know this: there is no language in Kenya for us to see this as a violation of human dignity.

I have occupied the fields of education and Christianity for all my life. I know that people who pass through those institutions are taught to be inhuman. Despite all the language of religion and knowledge, to be educated and to be a Christian is to be anti-human.

Which academic, which clergy, will speak up for the downtrodden in Kenya? None. The students will never talk about them in class, the congregation will never hear about them on Sundays. When Magoha says nonsense about the poor, students write theses to justify his ideas.

I get so surprised when, in my classrooms, or in academic forums, I hear people repeating extremely stupid ideas voiced by politicians as if they are fact. It doesn't occur to them to even subject what politicians say to analysis.

The church and the schools exist to brainwash Kenyans to become insensitive and hardened. They are taught not to see human beings, but to justify the status quo even if it means human beings suffer. The church will call it "God's will," the schools call it being "objective."

So Christianity and schools teach Kenyans to respond to everything in life with these two tactics

1. avoid recognizing an injustice
2. if the injustice is too big to ignore, blame the victim

Because the state is God, and must always be blameless.

The basic idea is to teach Kenyans not to see anything. If there is an injustice, never see the state. Or the church. Or the rich. See only the victims and blame them. Because not seeing the perpetrators means they are blameless.

This IS the colonial education that trained colonial officers to be crude and violent, and taught the police and the civil servants to be the same.

Unless we humanize our education and faith, the mindukras will ignore injustice because they are taught against naming it.

Either that, or we create alternative institutions that see us. An alternative state, an alternative community service instead of police, an alternative education, and an alternative theology of Jesus as a colonized subject, not as CEO in the same boardroom as pirate sector.

Which leads me to question @johnallannamu: What's the value of getting interviews from GoK officers like the DPP? They are as poisoned like everyone else. These institutions cannot be cleaned up. They need to be destroyed, everybody sent home, and we start new ones from scratch.

Civil servants are trained to be inhuman. When they talk to the media, they answer questions to protect GoK, not to affirm our humanity.

GoK is too racist, too inhuman, to care about Kenyans.