My friend, a member of Ufahamu
Diaries group, during one of our good old meetings said that ‘people do grow in
thinking.’ Bet you me, the time he said those words I knew that he least
understood them- the way we always run for music lyrics and people’s quotes
only to serve our deficiencies. In this meeting, he was ‘protecting’ his
reputation for no group assignment to him was done. He never lacked an excuse.
For his comment, surely I nodded to for it had taken me several wrong turns to
develop one questionnaire sentence for the meeting.
When people stand to talk of words
they least mean or understand I get a queasy feeling down in the bowels. When
you wrongly quote a person, or argue stupidly for fear of losing a contentious
topic I feel like I do not exist- no imaginations here.
When you stand before pupils in
the robes of mentorship and tell them you were raised from a poor family,
sleeping on floor, eating once a day and your careless father having run away
from the family, what do you mean? Some words prompt pity- to make the audience
feel sorry for you instead of doing what you should! That is to give them a
hope by talking good things. Not the past old sad memories that we may want to
cling to.
In a refreshing meeting, a man
was going through slides displaying pictures of a marine man doing the salute
thing to black Obama. He was of the words that a black president is ruling as
per a black man’s prophecy- Martin Luther Junior. If I told him that he is
wrong, he will call me a careless youth. What he does not know is that
Americans elected a President. Not a black. The marine is doing his
professional stuff- not a boot licking habit. That is how messages are wrongly
imparted.
For some time now, I do not know
what to tell people when we are talking. I do not know when it is wise to quote
a person and when it is better left. I am always of the feeling that we are all
operating in a state of equableness if we hanged the boots of titles. When you
speak to me, do not think I am your junior. Know that I am ready to stick to bragging
words which will aid me take a judgment look on you. Speak less of dreams. Take
me to another world and prove your point without merely saying that if you made
it I can also make it. Puff.
The Preachers are slowly growing
into similar fangs. They start preaching about ‘Following Jesus’ expecting you
to be seated for a full hour listening to a children story. Life has too much
to experience than following a person. Obviously the preacher does not mean
what he says if you interviewed him after the church. A friend of mine gets
nuts and call them mother something because of their shallowness to research
and critical thinking. Preachers as some say need a heavenly calling, I think
they need a thorough intellectual training of questioning what they are saying
to the masses. Do not speak because you feel inspired. Inspirations can be so
misleading.
There will always be followers to
an idea. An employee is expected to follow an organization’s order and
regulations. When he breaks the first law in 48 laws of power, honestly, what
do you expect of his boss? A topic for another day has something like we are
into our different positions because we can be dump to think so. When Barack
Senior could not fathom directions from a junior learned person, he was at war
with Kenyatta. As some will lie to Kenyatta’s side, others will defend the Luo
blood.
I had forgotten this. peers are
into the revolution ideas citing Sankara and Marcus Gurvey in their posts. Some
consider Gadaffi a legend. It is not bad I may agree. But when you start citing
them to communicate to the ruling authority, you are simply a fool. Some who do
so have not opened a book about the very people and heard how their good
thoughts were a source of lawlessness. It is better to let reference be unless
you want to dishonestly communicate.
In short, when you take over the
podium, focus your discussions to something critical. If you can’t convince
your bed that there can be a side-look to your idea, deny the speaking request.
I, the audience can be so pissed off by a shallow speaker and quote nothing in
the diary.
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| At large, we should own our words and experiences. Rarely should we cite external sources unless there was no otherwise. |
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