Thread by @RosebellK

Y’all need to hit pause on that motivational speech in middle of a pandemic which has left many jobless! The we-all-have-24-hours-a day stuff! Please people are struggling, stoping your mpenkoni moves beating people in a bad place already!This country had failed many way before

If you are not suffering financially and having your mental health at stake, surviving sexual abuse in workplaces, navigating political and economic patronage that defines the job sector in this country or the very least have close people trying hard to stay afloat, please rest

Some of us have worked for generations backwards because the realities of this country are harsh and grim for many.
Because surviving bad governance in a neocolonialised , capitalist and patriarchal economy is not a joke! People be the line between the whole clan making it or not

It pains me to see midro income men pretend success depends on simply individual interest and hard work! It’s much more complex than that. We live at the intersection of failed systems nationally & globally. Most of Uganda/africa is surviving not thriving not of their own making.

But if you read ko from feminist theory you would have already known what multiple oppressions mean.

You are much more likely to struggle in Uganda’s 2020 economy than you did in 2000.
Two decades later we see that for everyone 3 Ugandans that shift out of poverty, 2 fall back

Read my people, read!
Don’t use your own bubble as a measure of what the world is.

Hard work as measure of success is capitalist exploitation. few people can access even chance to show their potential, the game is presently is already rigged against many!

The more one has to navigate access based on age, gender, ableism,class,ethnicity, race, religion, gender identity, political leaning the harder they work but they are not the ones on top, are they!

Someone said if hard working defined success African women would be your bosses!

Only place poverty rates reduced is war affected areas of northern Uganda as they emerge out of devastating decades of brutality, even that growth will hit a certain limit where currently most regions are at!
You can’t hard work everyone out of economies that marginalize.

Without tackling or questioning systems that sentence millions into terrible living conditions you are simply gaslighting and blaming people for their own demise.
I don’t know how millions can collide to stay poor!

Working on gender and racial inequality and injustice really opens eyes to look beyond this capitalist ideology of hard work.

How do Black people hard work themselves to equality with people who robbed their wealth & killed their civilizations? And still do with neocolonialism!

How do you reckon the same 24 hours work for Black people and people who colonized them, forced labour and enslaved them and the loot is still here in family inheritance and big economies that pretend to aid our countries even as they continue to rob in illicit financial flows?

How do women hard work to success in a patriarchal world that say pregnant teens be kicked out of school?

How do women hardwork themselves to success with families that deny them land rights?

How do you ask hard work of women whose basic human rights aren’t guaranteed?

*collude

Any if you are comfortable enough in this turmoil that continues to unravel just speak by paying for our therapy or else keep your peace!