What I would rather do though, is have an exchange of ideas on where to go from here, we are mad at the politicians, so what?. And I dare not approach this venture as a superior partner but as a person who equally values your input in this epoch matter facing us, namely THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY.
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." However, 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. Gripping and grizzling, as pleasurable and oftentimes lucrative an exercise, will not move a brick. CHANGE will be brought about by honest men and women who will labor in abscurity and perhaps even never make into the margins of history books; not the false prophets who bask in the glamour of ostensibly prepresenting the poor while doing things that keep them poor.
Before Barry was Obama, he was an underpaid Harvard grad slogging in the mire of Southside Chicago.
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 in 2012 but be greeted with different results, somehow?
A TIME COMES WHEN SILENCE IS BETRAYAL.
7 comments:
Honestly, I am also getting tired of politicians and pressure groups only waiting to react and not being at the forefront in championing reforms.
Cicero, you write thrice as eloquently as you speak. I want more prose from you. Videos are good but I did not realize you could write this well.
Nyundo oye ? Nyundo ayieeeeeeeee ! Nyudo oye ? Nyund ayieeeeeeee
Cicero, aii bwana, a week is ending with nothing new?
did you start a good initiative that you cannot sustain?
realistically, many people who had embraced your new approach will stop visiting your blog once they experience long moments of silence.
Think about that.
i give up on this site, for real...looks like another flight that failed to take off!!
RIP Cicero
So long, then.
This is the problem with Kenyans. You sit around and expect a messianic intervention instead of looking into ways that you as an individual can get involved.
This is a blog that seeks to "share ideas" and it is kind of hard to share ideas with yourself unless you are one of those people who hear a lot of voices in your head - I haven't gotten to that point yet.
Those complaining about the pace of things here need to first present their contribution because that is what this blog is about...sharing ideas that will move the country forward.
I can easily make two posts a day reacting to the news just because I have to - like all other blogs - but I happen to have a lot of other more important things to do.
I understand your need for constant feeds but remember also that there cannot be an exchange of ideas unless you also participate.
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Cicero,
Do not give up on Kenyans, do not give up on yourself. this is a good initiative.
Rose
Rose, thanks and no, I am never going to give up on Kenya.
What we might consider the most prosperous nation today was once a struggling infant democracy with more problems and much bitter divisions than Kenyans could ever envision.
It took men and women of courage and conviction to lay the foundation for later better years.
I see myself as an 80 year old on a rocking chair, living my final days on earth...would I ever forgive myself if I look back and think I did not do all that I could to make my little corner on earth a better place?
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