The Kenyan president is a colonizer
He prioritizes property over people
Hiii, I hope you are staying cool in hell. This week I’m sharing my feelings about the Kenyan president ordering the police to shoot protestors in the legs. Onto the news…
News that made me feel like lack of public bathrooms is peak colonizer behavior
The current top colonizer of Kenya, William Ruto, also referred to as the president, called for the police to shoot protestors who destroyed property in the legs. I call Ruto top colonizer of Kenya because of his eagerness to please the IMF at the expense of his so-called constituents. Last year Kenyan zoomers stormed the parliament to remind Ruto who he should be working for when he tried to raise taxes to pay off IMF loans. Ruto walked back his tax raises like a teenager walks back into their room when their plans to sneak out are thwarted by their parents’ late night snacking.
To be honest I call anyone who is the “leader” of a state a colonizer because all states are colonizers, it doesn’t matter who the leader is. If you come to my home and tell me you have authority over me because I fall into some border made up by a white man, you are a colonizer.
Also, has Ruto been brainstorming with Donald Trump on how to suppress protests? Yes, Trump did ask at some point if protesters could be shot in the leg to which the military general responded, we don’t shoot Americans in the legs, we save the bullets for imperialism. Okay he didn’t say that but this man who orchestrates the murder of people clutched his pearls at the thought of a president suggesting he shoot his own constituents. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to murder the people who you are pretending to protect and serve. It sends the message that you are in fact not there to protect and serve them which is very inconvenient to maintain the pretense that states are here to serve the people and not business interests.
Nonetheless, it does make sense that Ruto would instruct the police to shoot protestors who threaten property because policing in Kenya did originate from the Imperial British East Africa Company. One can only assume that an entity with the words imperial, British, and company did not create anything for the common good. The company created policing to protect its business interests. A colonizer using violence to protect their stealing is obviously more predictable than me choosing to be constantly dehydrated when I leave my apartment so I don’t have to worry about finding a place to pee. Is it good? No. Will I change? Probably not until we live in a society where finding a public bathroom doesn’t feel like playing pokemon go. Which means we would have to live in a society where colonialism doesn’t exist. As we know the goal of not having public bathrooms is to make people who can’t or refuse to serve capitalism uncomfortable which is peak colonizer behavior.
Which brings me back to Ruto. How deeply colonized does your brain have to be for you to use a police force to serve the colonizers goals of protecting capital over people? How deeply colonized does your brain have to be for you to publicly misconstrue peace and stability as a state where people suffer and businesses thrive? More colonized than Beyoncé fans who think financially supporting a billionaire who wears pro-indigenous genocide merch is woke and that’s saying a lot.
That’s it for the news but don’t go yet
This week on TikTok I talked about how slavery is a spectrum inspired by Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection.
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