@seeders et al, I like your reasoning,people. We buried the weed of hatred in 2008. If you have done weeding, you know this is wrong! You don't bury weed. Uproot it, shake off the soil and throw it away. If you bury weed, it sure shall grow again.
But we needed a quick fix solution. So we buried it. We buried the negative comments we had for other tribes. We started blaming politicians for what went wrong in '07(trust Kenyans to blame anyone else but themselves!)
This is where I say we need to be careful. In 2007, ethnic hatred was at an all time high. Take a look at some of the statements I heard:
The only good Kikuyu is a dead one-Overheard From a university student
Kikuyus caused the land crisis in the Rift Valley when they bought farms through companies they called ngwataniro. They transferred the same mess of subdividing things into small, hard to manage units into the transport system when they introduced matatus to replace buses.- Prof Okoth Owiro, fmr CKRC Sec Gen. He was my lecturer before he died and for a whole sem taught us nothing but hatred for the Agikuyu and why I should love and never question the all-wise man Odinga. We were not examined tha semester and the unit was moved to the next sem.
If we come out in large numbers, this Kikuyu will go home.-a clergyman in a Siaya town church.
That was 2005-2007. Last year(2010), an irritant says Kikuyus are to blame for all corruption and land sleaze since independence even during the Moi days.
Let's face it: the violence had little to do with elections. Hatred led to it.
This is why I get annoyed with miscreants like Kukubo and Apple Bees.
Yesterday, some irritant in wazua