This post was supposed to go up yesterday, but thanks to Orange internet, ndio hii hapa leo.
I am about to incur the wrath of an egomaniac and his thousands of mindless twitter followers with this post, but as the saying goes, in for a penny, well, in for a whole bloody pound, mate. This is going to be one hell of a way to end writers block, and the backlash could potentially be epic, but what the hell…this is MY opinion, and yours is irrelevant. If you are one of those people lining up to suck Robert Alai’s cock (not to be confused with the fowl), leave now or forever hold your shit.
Now, what I know about Alai as a person, is probably equivalent to the character allocation on twitter, but as they say, perception is everything. For all I know, he could be a decent fellow, and he does seem like a decent tech blogger, but on twitter, old-timer is a disaster!! He is like an unhinged, mentally strange idiot, lose with a sniper rifle.
So, this is what started this…This morning, some of my 26 followers on twitter (yes, you read that right, 26) were vilifying an Alai tweet, and I thought “Oh well, Dude probably said something that people didn’t like, but what the hell, his twitter, his opinion”. That however, was before I saw the inflammatory tweet. Alai was apparently on his knees praying that it rains rapists in Kileleshwa, in a bid to highlight on an insecurity issue…that was when my brain went WHAT THE FUCK?! How in the hell, do you sit there and pray for rape on innocent people just because they come from a higher tax bracket than you do? Do the people in Kile formulate and execute security policy in this country? Arent the people living there citizens like the rest of us?! Ama you have beef with Kile that you aren’t sharing? Does that ex-boyfriend who dumped you for a chick live there for example?
I couldn’t tell you what rape feels like, having never experienced it myself, but someone close to me was sexually assaulted recently. I will tell you however, that it is not pretty. She told me of the feeling of helplessness, the fear, the shame and the trauma during the ordeal. To this day, she cannot go outside past 6pm and her life has been irreversibly affected. She lives in constant fear, and has bouts of severe anxiety, paralyzing panic attacks and she still cannot sleep. That’s not taking into account the risks of HIV infection, and all those other bad STDs. So Mr. Alai, unless you have had a large hard object forcefully and without consent driven up an orifice in your body, experienced the pain associated with it, and the feeling of helplessness that comes with knowing that someone is about to do something nasty to you and there is nothing you can do to stop it, DO NOT throw that word rape around just for the heck of it. It is ill advised and not in the least way funny!
You cannot in any way whatsoever, justify wishing such a horrific fate to another human being. The men and Women of Kileleshwa are innocent ordinary citizens of this country. They just happened to have a silver spoon in their mouths. Some of those people weren’t born with that spoon; some had to put blood, sweat and tears to get to where they are. Granted, some are drugdealers and murderers, but a majority of the people living there are just that…people! And what about the children? Did he give thought to what such a thing does to a child?!(ok, I need to calm the fuck down.)
Having said that, I think Alai needs to grow the fuck up! He needs to learn responsibility, and stop acting like he owns twitter. Everyone who seems to disagree with that fat fuck is met with furious reactions from him, his various other accounts and some of his followers. This is tantamount to cyber bullying. I get that he has something important to say…insecurity in this country is going to the dogs, and the assholes responsible are either too busy shafting prostitutes, or stabbing each other in the back over politics, or getting head from university students(yes, both male and female), but this is not the way. Ignoramus needs to find another way to get points across. Thumping on your chest like a mountain gorilla is definitely not the way to go. Granted the resemblance is astounding, but this is a somewhat civilized setting…you need to be gracious about certain things. The way to go is not to wish a fate worse than death to a grouping of people just because they belong to a higher tax bracket.
The cabbage headed oaf needs to look up the meaning of responsibility. What you say has the power to affect a lot of people. Wars have been fought over shit like this, the ethnic cleansing in Rwanda started because idiots with a lose tongue and nothing but wax between the ears said something that was at the time, highly inflammatory. Considering that 12 people retweeted, and 2 others favorited that particular tweet, it is safe to assume that a majority of Alailites are not particularly smart… these were the same people who were up in arms in attack when good people could not sit back and take such misinformed fucked up bigotry! That shows the class of people that congregate around you Mr. Alai. Someone once said, show me your friends, and I will tell you who you are.
Bad things happen because good people decide to ignore what is happening. I am paraphrasing of course, but the meaning is clear. We cannot sit and watch such fuckery exist, and continue to STFU. Just because we are afraid to step on a little toes. This complacency breeds dangerous situations such as hate speech. We cannot continue to cut people slack just because we are afraid that they will get their large following to launch a barrage of insults our way. Fuckery needs to be called out where it exists. We know for sure, that impotent fuck Kibunja won’t do shit, so it’s up t us to try and stop it…intimidation and insults be damned!
This post might not be read by a lot of people, and it might give publicity to Alai and his bullshit, but a smart person reading this will get the importance. If you are one of those people who will only see this as a thinly veiled attack on Robert Alai, your stupid ass does not deserve to live, but since murder is a capital offense, may your crotch be infested with a thousand lice from the camels of the Libyan desert, and may your hands be too short to scratch!!
