The past few days I have been trying to hold in my anger and sadness about the following situation, but it is just gotten out of hand.
If you don't know that I left large parts of my heart in Kenya then we have not talked enough and that needs to change.
Over the past few days I have been online and hearing some talk radio about the crisis that is going on in Kenya, however still I have yet to hear a single thing about it on the TV. I watch news on a regular basis and yes I could have missed it, but I doubt it.
All it seems that this spoiled brat country of ours (which I am proud to be from) cares about is: Britney, Primarys, and what load of bull Pat Robertson has been saying.
There is major unrest in the usually peaceful country of Kenya. I really cant go into it all because to tell the truth I get to hyped up about it all, but in short here it is.
Dec 27th the election for president was held. The sitting president Kibaki won by a small margin. Kenya is made up of 47 different tribes, all of which until lately, seemingly got along. The forerunner for President Odinga and his tribe have begun an uprising against President Kibaki and his tribe the Kikuyu. It does appear that the election may have been tampered with, but the reaction the Luo people have taken is not rational and will accomplish nothing. Over 300 people have been killed at this point, in a type of ethnic cleansing, which is oddly reminiscent of the start of the war in Rwanda.
I know that you hear all of this and think, so what how does this affect me and what can I do.
Well I promise it affects you a whole lot more than you know. You have to remember we are all in this thing together. As far as what you can do, right now all I can say is pray and mean it.
I hope that id does not, but it may come to a point we need to write our leaders and encourage them to stay by Kenya's side, even if it seems it is crumbling.
Also we must realize how sick and corrupt our media is.
I guess since it is just a bunch of black people killing each other AGAIN, it must not be worthy of any attention.
it sounds like a bad jok "how many deaths have to happen before it appears on the nightly news?"
here our a few websites if you would like to learn more about what is going on.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/africa/2008/kenya/default.stm http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,526129,00.html