“Fighting this feelin like fighting a war
I don’t really know what you’re fighting it for
All you’re really doing is fighting yourself
Stick the gun back inside your bible belt
My arrival felt across this planet
When I landed jet lag on the flag I plant it
Face lit by the moon ima visit her soon
Get high if you knew get hit the truth
Kweli no nom de plume Lazer Major like Diplo tunes
Music it’s few and we’re running off fumes
I’ma visit your tomb if you get to west suit
That consciousness been a nigga
Ain’t ruggin it till you get beat with it get…
Self made niggas don’t get discovered
Well paid niggas don’t fit your…” - Letter from the Government by Talib Kweli - Attack the Block Album, 2012
Listen here @Gaza.
There can only be one safe game and that game has many names but he existence of it is by the existence of governments. You say the Pokot get nothing from the Kenyan government and hence put up some fancy rebellion as a middle-finger to the MAN. My quick advise is, “please, let go of the foolishness”.
You are lucky the white man disrupted the African game-play as it was during pre-colonial times. You guys would have been wiped out clean by now and no one would know about ‘a Pokot’. The government, just like a corporation, will focus where their is returns. These returns involve power, votes, influence, cash but never the people nor their resources. Resources can be stripped right under you - ask the Congolese about their hardwood, copper and gold. You have to play in this game in order to win it and remember, you don’t win for your community until you win for yourself first.
The Pokot situation is nothing but a basket case of savages refusing to be civilized in an age of knowledge together with a matching size of stupidity. Your resistance has never been cathartic in any sense and never will. Taking about not paying taxes and being loyal to some foreign aiders is not banality. Everyone does something for gain unless they are stupid. Your ‘foreign aiders’ are benefiting from your lack of self-consciousness and civility. You gotta change men. This is the Kenyan meta and there ain’t no changing it, the only thing there is, is to checkout literally, i.e. go 6 feet under.
My regards,
Dr. Nyundo wa Komeo (Eng., CBS, OBE, OBS)