Amid All the Stone Throwing, Tear Gas Canisters,Boot Crushing and Tribal Bigotry, Just Remember We’re All Kenyans and We’re Poor. Instead of Killing Yourself, Do This Instead! #TasteaFeeling

For the last couple of days, there has been a photo doing rounds on social media of a cop brutally beating a protestor in the recently held CORD demonstrations. The highlight of it all was is when the officers’ boot was up above the protestors’ face, a protestor who seemed to have zoned out and the officer looked as if he was just about to crush his skull, taking away his life.

It’s one of the most grotesque scenes you could ever experience and it bubbles all manner of feelings within you. Surely, was it really worth it to shed all that blood, experience all that pain in misery just for a few individuals who only have vested interests in the whole thing?

Founder of Nailab and entrepreneur raised a very interesting hypothesis that no matter what, the victim and the person carrying out the atrocities were all in the same spot. They were probably all earning below 40 K a month and were really struggling to make ends meet.

However this is not the first time this is happening and we hit our social media pages up in arms asking for mass action, rebuking, accusing, condescending, warning and doing all manner of things. But as soon as the fire dies down, then its business as usual until another “Wanjiku” is crushed on a pavement.

And the sad part is that this kind of primitiveness and tribal bigotry is sometimes advanced by Kenya’s middle class who definitely should do be more civil. People like me and you who have gone to school, are probably professionals somewhere and appear to live sober lives.

People, who go to caramel for dinner, have drinks at mercury while pretending to be all bourgeoisie and sophisticated. In the confines of our toilets however, we chuck out our phones and post all manner of verbal diarrhea on our twitter handles.  It’s totally pathetic if you ask me!

I would rather you just catch up on the latest movies on Netflix, update your IG on your latest shisha escapades while pretending nothing is in the offing. Better still, you can attempt to make a change and do better.

Like have you heard about Coca Cola’s Taste The Feeling? It’s a campaign that advocates togetherness, sharing and generally appreciating one another. That is definitely what we need in Kenya. We need to understand that everyone is important, that they bring something to the table!

Where is theexultation of bringing our country to its knees and losing everything we have taken so long to build? Where is the joy in seeing your brother who probably gives you an advance now and then when you are broke lying there in a pool of blood writhing in pain courtesy of your “people?”

Your guess is as good as mine on this one.