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Robert (Bob) Collymore CEO of Safaricom Passes On!!!
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#51 Posted : Monday, July 08, 2019 10:53:20 AM
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Materere wrote:
What DID HE SAY? I think people are bitching for no good reason.

During the last polls, you started a thread on the issue of Kikuyu arrogance. You pointed out that UMK would lose due to his tribe's looking down on other communities. You went out to point out that Kikuyus have to be more careful in their conduct(and words) than other people because of their 'privileged position' or something like that.

I saw your point then. Why can't it apply here with Michael?
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#52 Posted : Monday, July 08, 2019 10:54:44 AM
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murchr wrote:
When Smith Hempstone* was the US ambassador, many Kenyans said he's a black man in a white man body. That was not a problem then.


Not sure that they used those words. Smith behaved liked eating Chama choma in public places just like Kenyans. But all Kenyans are not black.
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Angelica _ann
#53 Posted : Monday, July 08, 2019 10:56:00 AM
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How many times do we say, huyu ni mzungu, huyu anaishi kama mzungu, wachana na huyu ni mzungu etc. Why then is it ok for us to say that yet MJ cannot say the same in a more elaborate manner.
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masukuma
#54 Posted : Monday, July 08, 2019 12:31:43 PM
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Angelica _ann wrote:
How many times do we say, huyu ni mzungu, huyu anaishi kama mzungu, wachana na huyu ni mzungu etc. Why then is it ok for us to say that yet MJ cannot say the same in a more elaborate manner.

Exactly my point... everyone recognizes "uzungu" in black people. everyone recognizes "uwafrika" in white people. When you see someone doing something that is stereotypical someone else domain... you state it. Asians live a certain way. Waafrika the same. Wazungu the same.

When you see a mzungu chokora - you get astounded (I know I was... when I saw the first one).
What MJ was saying is the He remembers Bob Collymore being a "Mzungu Muiru" who pretending to be a serious corporate person. Since then he grew and become a serious corporate person.
He was talking about Bob... not black people... not white people. BOB!! how he saw Bob grow. The only person who can be insulted is Bob. tuwache upuzi.
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#55 Posted : Monday, July 08, 2019 1:12:25 PM
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masukuma wrote:
Angelica _ann wrote:
How many times do we say, huyu ni mzungu, huyu anaishi kama mzungu, wachana na huyu ni mzungu etc. Why then is it ok for us to say that yet MJ cannot say the same in a more elaborate manner.

Exactly my point... everyone recognizes "uzungu" in black people. everyone recognizes "uwafrika" in white people. When you see someone doing something that is stereotypical someone else domain... you state it. Asians live a certain way. Waafrika the same. Wazungu the same.

When you see a mzungu chokora - you get astounded (I know I was... when I saw the first one).
What MJ was saying is the He remembers Bob Collymore being a "Mzungu Muiru" who pretending to be a serious corporate person. Since then he grew and become a serious corporate person.
He was talking about Bob... not black people... not white people. BOB!! how he saw Bob grow. The only person who can be insulted is Bob. tuwache upuzi.


Taking offense is a huge industry. Unataka watu walale njaa? Even Trevor Noah admitted that the election of Donald Trump is the greatest thing that could have happened to his career.
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#56 Posted : Monday, July 08, 2019 1:26:29 PM
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Angelica _ann wrote:
How many times do we say, huyu ni mzungu, huyu anaishi kama mzungu, wachana na huyu ni mzungu etc. Why then is it ok for us to say that yet MJ cannot say the same in a more elaborate manner.



Meanwhile, this is the way NYT did an advert for its Africa Correspondent


C&P

New York Times international editor Michael Slackman has owned up to approving a job advert for an Africa correspondent that was full of clichéd descriptions of the continent.

It talked about reporting from "the deserts of Sudan and the pirate seas of the Horn of Africa, down through the forests of Congo and the shores of Tanzania".

MJ was very lenient.
"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goethe
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