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Tribal Strife in Kenya
by Babu Ranganathan
February 10, 2008
Many are saying that it is racist or simplistic to claim that
Kenya's recent political riots are tribal. They say that the
problemsgo beyond tribal to employment, land, and water resources.
Nonsense!
The reason why there are problems
with employment, land, and water resources is because of tribal
enmity and hatred where the dominant tribe prevents equal
opportunity to the other tribes.
In Africa, the black man has hated and despised his fellow black
man long before colonialism and Western slavery. Colonialism
exacerbated the problem by grouping together different tribes into
single nations, but African tribes, like Native Americans, were
hating and killing one another long before they saw white skin and
blue eyes.
African tribes also practiced slavery over other African tribes.
When one African tribe conquered another tribe the conquered tribe,
in many cases, would become slaves. Some say that African slavery
was benign. Tell that to the slave! Among African tribes there
were various forms of slavery. Many tribes treated their fellow
Africans who were slaves as mere chattel property, no different
than the status that slaves had in America. Other tribes allowed
the descendants of fellow Africans who
were slaves to earn their way out of slavery and to move up in
society only after several generations had passed.
Sin is not only found in the white man. It also exists abundantly
in the black man and in all men and in all societies. In the early
1990's the African Hutu tribe slaughtered one million Tutsis,
another African
tribe. Many of them were slowly tortured before family members
before they were finally killed. Tribalism is a big problem in
Africa. Even among many Africans who are Christian, the tribe
always comes first.
African blacks need to repent of their own "home-grown" version of
"racism" (tribalism). It's not always the white man's fault.
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