Thread by @wmnjoya

I said in 2010 that having a president who was the son of a former president, and worse, with crimes against humanity charges, was going to send the Kenyan soul to a dark place. It would make us salivate for land as a substitute to work, value bloodlines instead of achievement.

Then in 2014, I said that the price we would pay for having him is that we would behave like Kenyan lives don't matter. That was when the president made some really horrible remarks about the rape of a toddler.
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In 2017, after Godec imposed Muigai, I said the moral defeat of the Kenyan resistance would make us turn inward. We should expect more intimate violence because Kenyans would feel suffocated. Without an outlet, they would take out their despair and anger on spouses and kids.

In 2018, Arkanuddin Yassin wrote that "we cope with the oppressive system of Capitalism by eating our children’s futures before eating them alive." The loans Muigai's government was taking loans were eating our kids' future. theelephant.info/reflections/20…

In 2019, BBC reported of a town where men were in such despair that there was a high suicide rate. The town was, unsurprisingly, in uthamakistan where low income men are required to believe that common ethnicity makes them at par with Africa's richest men.

We have seen the spike in murders of women and children by men, but even worse, the trivialization of those murders in both the mainstream and social media. We still refuse to politically link our social environment that devalues women's lives to the political environment.

Recently, media celebrated that for the last few years, @DCI_Kenya has been using Twitter to entertain us with the humiliation of poor people caught in petty crime. Meanwhile, they don't have a similar tweet for an MP who shot and paralyzed a DJ. pulselive.co.ke/news/meet-the-…

The other day, KRA cruelly promised us more surveillance of our social media posts. Instead of Kenyans expressing outrage, they are now having a laugh over it with KRA. Our taxes are paying for social media entertainment and surveillance and we don't see how toxic that is.

In #tyrannyof3pc, I have archived stories of violence against children in schools, including rape and an evil, but perfectly colonial, obsession with crushing boy's genitals. Year after year, we sing about Kenya as an island of peace, but we are eating our children in schools.

Finally, we have a case of a boy who ate chapatis, normal for a kid his age, having his kidneys and genitals damaged and made to suffer a week without medical attention. And none of us are asking whether the colonial school system is worth child sacrifice.
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You know why we won't ask?

Go back to the top of the thread. In 2013, we accepted that our lives matter less than maintaining this violent, colonial system. That yes, our human worth is decided by pedigree (the family you were born in) and old and huge sums of money.

We'd rather kill ourselves, each other and our kids that face the reality that Muigai is spiritually bad for our country. We should be saying that August 2022 is too far to sacrifice more kids and their futures, but no. We're calculating politician who might win.

We have no plan for a national cleansing of the demons we have lived with since 2013, which is the real Muigai legacy. We have no agenda for returning reward to work that we actually do, as opposed to now when we reward bloodlines, connections and loot.

https://twitter.com/surambaya/status/1266340859047563265?t=F1cDzMxnVWM-wHMQUOhJ-Q&s=19

We need a restoration of the Kenyan soul. Not more promises about money, education and employment. We Kenyans can fix this country ourselves with our own minds and hands, but our minds need to be healed of the scourge of the Kenyatta II years. All he has done is traumatize us.

Child sacrifice in Kenya is the sign of a country where adults are unable to deal with reality. It's not about the kids. The scars on the kids are a sign of the rot in the adults.

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