Sunday, December 20, 2009

The KKK nonsense is not a new ideology in Kenya!

This morning I read in a section of the media that the nonsense called KKK alliance is schemed to ultimately end up into K. How stupid?
I will tell you why this is nonsensical and why it is doomed to fail. Around 1884 after the Berlin Conference that among other things called for effective occupation of the colonies in Africa, the French colonialists in West Africa embarked on a policy called Assimilation ostensibly to unite all black people with the civilized white race with the stated intention of having the black benefit from the civilization of the white man! The policy of assimilation failed miserably and to date it is the same hang overs that the French government suffers from every time there is political instability in its former colonies. The French government always intervenes militarily with the desperate hope of telling the world that they are still in charge and that the former colonies are still part of the French.
Kenya as a country is faced with the mountainous challenge of tribalism and tribal politics. The solution is well known. Around the 1950s and immediately after independence, a few greedy political characters told Kenyans that there was need to unite the Gikuyus, embus and Merus and that through this other Kenyans would be united! This was the onset of GEMA and you and me are aware of what this union called GEMA cost this country. Other unions splinterd up such as KAMATUSA and MAA groups etc. We have always told our leaders that they are the people who exacerbate the problem before us by insisting like Mutahi Ngunyi that we cannot run away from tribalism. And now there are a few leaders who have told Kenyans that the solutions to our tribalism is to unite a few tribes against the rest then ultimately win over the other tribes who shall be left out in the first plan. That our leaders are seeking to unite kambas, kikuyus and kalenjins is selfish, useless and ultimate demonstration of hopelessness in our leaders. I have always argued that if these people were that serious then they should plan to include the Kurians and Karamojong in their KKK nonsense if they are to Kenyans. Why because if it is a matter of K then Kurians, Kisiis and Karamajongs are also qualified to join! But no one among these leaders has ever talked of this. What is so good in the former KKK that is not in the latter KKK?
I wish to inform the KKK proponents that if the French men failed to assimilate the black men and women of West Africa, then Ruto, Uhuru and Kalonzo cannot assimilate the Luos, Luhyas, Kisiis, Merus, Embus, Kurians, Mijikenda, Asians, the Whites, Masai, Boranas, Samburus, Pokots among others. We do not wish to and will never regret why we were born in these tribes. I want to state categorically that even if I were to die now and resurrect and I would choose to resurrect as a Kuria! We are sick and tired of being told that if Kalenjins and Kikuyus are not going to unite then there will be war in 2012! This is useless thinking and I wish to inform the Ruto cabal that even if there were war or not, you cannot pretend to unite tribes by setting tribes against tribe. Do not try to reap from the spoils of a war that was your own creation.
You see I have not even talked of Mau which is what these characters have been telling us is the reason they are opposed to the Prime Minister but which we now know is a vague excuse which has not stood the test of time.

In short, KKK is not news to us it was here before the proponents were born. You cannot win over the rest of Kenyans by uniting a few tribes because if anything it is the same ideology that informed the schemers of GEMA, KAMATUSA, MAA, LUME etc. All these serve to balkanize the country tribally to date!

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