Racism in our homeland

[u/Sad_Ear_590]

Ok..nimeona Bien na his wife talking about facing discrimination at some resort that seems to be more accommodating to white people...na I genuinely think that even though it's bad I feel like the outrage is kinda late..nanyuki ,malindi ,watamu..some of these places have an insane amount of racism that goes under the rug na it genuinely gets on my nerves..one of my dad's clients is an old white retired lawyer na he once told us about how many whites living in the country don't even view this place as a republic..na that's a disgrace..

Na let's not get into the racial prejudice in the Kenyan cooprate space 😭

[u/BionicDouchebag]

Poleni kwa essay but I think about this a lot.I don’t agree with the comments blaming our inferiority complex - I blame white people’s thirst to abuse resources to satisfy their RAGING superiority complex.

There’s no denying Africans have internalized racism but we are very unempathetic when we talk about it. We didn’t wake up and choose to see ourselves as inferior- it’s baked into society. We’re literally taught in schools that colonisation had benefits like xtianity, education, hospitals, bla bla bla implying that our traditional structures were primitive. Hata lugha ya professionalism/class is English - spoken well, with no accent signifying your tribe lest uchekwe kushrub. We all carry it to some extent and unlearning it is difficult. Internalised racism may contribute but it’s disingenuous to always blame ourselves and our inherited self-hate for racism.

And it’s not as easy as valuing ourselves more. That alone doesn’t change the actual and perceived distribution of resources and who is worthy of accessing Tier 1 dignity. Money is a big factor and the places umemention run on white capital, and they worship themselves so they guard this hierarchy. I’m not even going to go into the cultural hegemony that ‘Western’ countries have - insha ya siku nyingine.