This is about the only place where we go beyond the whining and the victim poseur and ask ourselves "then what?"
In due time, I am going to post what I think is a practical, plausible cause of action which could be taken by the average Kenyan to move the country beyond the terrorism of current politics.
2 comments:
Good to see you are back though it would have been more appropriate to just post something new instead of telling us you are to post on a later date. sounds so much like what the current politicians would say....
peace Cicero
Rose
I see your point but what I am doing is staving off the temptation to slide into a punditry role.
There is enough experts out there who, empowered by "inside sources" do a good enough job of telling us what to think when a politician sneezes.
In short, the current cycle of news is way too stifled by the Raila/Kibaki/Kalonzo drama over the House Business Leader issue for my voice to be heard.
And what I refuse to do is pretend to be an "analysts" of these rogues we call our politicians...I refuse elevate their status by psychoanalysis their moves and making tired predictions (like our erstwhile blogmates!)as if their actions make sense in the first place!
What we can do though is exchange ideas on where to go from here. I am holding off the post about my idea so that I can hear from more of you. I am not a guru coming with a miracle prescription but an ordinary mwananchi who sees some truth in what Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King said in 1967, "A time comes when silence is betrayal."
But by not being silent I do not mean that we get up and burn buildings and uproot railroads or even just whine and whine on blogs. I mean that we SERIOUSLY CONTEMPLATE ACTION(S) which will move the country forward.
For starters, unless people sober up (and by people I mean the populous minus the politicians)...unless we sober up and realize that 2012 (or sooner) could well be the end of the road for Kenya as we know it, then 2012 (or sooner) might just be that; THE END OF THE ROAD FOR KENYA.
The reason is simple: When the US was attacked on September 11, 2001, things changed in the way Americans conducted business...you could tell that there was an aggressive effort to say "never again." Up until this day, you cannot travel through an airport without taking your shoes off (ironically echoing how Muslims enter their sanctuary).
Yet 9/11, as tragic as it was in the loss of life, was never an existential threat to the US; the future of US as a country was not even remotely threatened by Al-Qaeda. Yet for Kenya, 2007 December was clearly a moment which we came very close to disintegration, to annihilation as a country.
Have we said never again? What is to stop 2012 from presenting us with an even more cataclysmic conflict?
How can politicians fervently crusade for positions in parliament, marshaling up their reliable constituencies into a frenzy of righteous indignation and yet remain blissfully blind to a rapidly approaching precipice?
What about us, the people? How can we sit and just hope on the unlikely possibility that we can have the exact same scenario as 2007 but be greeted with different results?
A TIME COMES WHEN SILENCE IS BETRAYAL.
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