And let’s get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote – the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.That’s not our job, alright – stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest, if you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.

I had this speech by Jesse Williams on BET and it summed up everything one would want to say on this topic in whichever language.

@Masukuma and Co. You look at the fights of other people and you judge them as stupid for fighting. You forget the simple point that its not your fight.

Everyone who went to protest during the IEBC must go were not going because RAO called, they were going because it was their fight, they believed in the cause etc.

When lawyer Willie Kimani and Co were murdered, a different group (mostly lawyers and law practitioners) took to the street to fight because it was their fight.

You think you can take crap from a white cop everyday, put up with the indignity of being treated like a second class citizen because you watch american TV.

You take your borrowed experience and now you are talking down to those who you think made bad personal choices of expecting to be treated equal to their fellow citizens, but you are wrong again.

You may play dead everyday while people pee on you and move on, then the day you wake up with a bad headache, miss the bus, your boss rides you is the day you also meet the racist cop, you end up lashing out and voila, the guy kills you. I bet someone will be writing somewhere that you should have cooperated without checking to confirm that you had been cooperating for 37 years or 50 years.

Not everyone who gets killed by these racist cops were looking to die. The 2 recent cases were 32 and 37 years, I bet they had met cops before and not got killed.

Please read again what Jesse Williams wrote in his speech, watch it on youtube and show respect for those who take a stand for what they believe in.
May be you can watch braveheart where Wallace gives his speech before the first battle with the English as well (fiction but still cool)

- If Jesus had cooperated we would not have Christianity
- Had Mohamed cooperated we would not have Islam
- Had Martin Luther King, Malcom X and all those black freedom fighters cooperated racism would still be alive in the US
- Had Dedan Kimathi and all those freedom fighters you are disrespecting cooperated we would not have Kenya nor Wazua for you to give your opinions.

You seem to think money or wealth is what motivates everyone, not true, some people want a dignified life. The length of one's life is not necessarily under their control, if you doubt ask Lawyer Willie Kimani.

In short history is only changed by those who challenge the status quo, no matter how silly their cause seems to the casual observers.

@obi - different strokes for different folks! I will tell you where you get lost.
1) you seem to think because someone has disqualified me from speaking - I should remain disqualified... he is not the boss of me! I speak without licence. heck I don't even have to be consistent with what I said before. Because someone said it in a poem or wrote it in prose - it should bind me.
2) You also think that it's binary... that life or human existence is binary i.e. that there only two positions. you have to be pro-something or anti-something. nah... it's a continuum and sometimes it's not just on one plane.
3) I accept that you can see my decision making as being 'wrong' - which is fine. I am an opportunist. my decision making is fueled by nothing but individualistic and parochial interests. Your worldview like mine acknowledges 'the greater good' and like you I believe that it's the better way of humans to live. But I am trying to profit on the status quo as well and keep my head on my neck and as soon as your greater good becomes the status quo - I can guarantee you true to my form I will be on your side. I am just unwilling to pay any price for 'the greater good' to come through because there are enough putzes to lay down their lives for 'the greater good'. Sitaki kufinywa mapumbu like jamaa fulani tunajua coz of principles....

For those Africans here who feel sorry for african americans this is what they feel about you africans full of diseases ,let's discuss videos(20 points) ::::