By Kwabe Victor
Racism is a disease that has been silently navigating the ranks of
opportunities, socializing and even schooling systems could be affected direly
by this occurrence.
Empowered individuals based on colour need to stand up reject the
selection and accept the fact that money shouldn’t determine who gets better
services and who shouldn’t receive any services at all.
An act of discriminating against a person/ people based on their
ethnicity, institution, or color is the most powerful agent causing hatred,
deaths, and wars around the globe.
The question of racism is controversial at the same time a hard-hitting
issue once renowned to be witnessed mainly in the outside African countries by
blacks in diaspora searching for better ways.
Currently, the behavior seems to have become contagious encircling
nations in Africa as the numbers increase, multi-national marriages and
businesses welcoming a people of both colors black and white within Africa.
A rise in the division of classes has been born within which if not
countered early enough could be leading the nations into an unknown abyss of
potentially high destruction and upheaval rates.
Racism is a disease that has been silently navigating the ranks of
opportunities, socializing and even schooling systems could be affected direly
by this occurrence.
The separation of the people by businesses and hotels keeping a notion
alive that some are better than others tends to spark a rivalry that can’t be
contained since it imposes the psychology of man as a lesser being.
Empowered individuals based on color need to stand up reject the
selection and accept the fact that money should not determine who gets better
services and who should not receive any services at all.
For example, in Mombasa, there have been set up hotels that attend to a
specific collection of people leaving the black people within at times in awe
and distress despite being in their native lands, this distances the people
brewing hatred.
The Alchemist Incident
A scene at The Alchemist
Alchemist a club in Nairobi has faced accusations of alleged racist
actions against the blacks within who are frequent occupants of the enjoyment
club.
This comes after a viral video of the joint went online raising
tremendous agitation from the citizens on Twitter, since the clip evidenced
discrimination against the black customers.
In the video, the bouncers at the club had separated queues allegedly
according to race. A man could be heard shouting, “This is racist, I swear… I
wanted to record.”
Though the club has issued a statement about the incident and in turn
apologized for the incident, ” To anyone that has felt aggrieved, we
sincerely apologize and we look forward to sitting down together and addressing
these issues head-on.”
Urging its fans within the city and abroad who might be dismayed by the
news that The Alchemist has always been a home to creators, partners,
musicians, and customers from several diverse backgrounds.
Even though this is not the first time that the bar has been accused of
alleged racism earlier on a customer’s allegations were of her denial to access
to a sitting space as it was reserved for white people.
How to Curb Racist Acts.
Embrace the people for who they are and whichever way they may be in
that the businesses should entail persons from diverse ethnic alignments to instill the togetherness.
The people can be engaged in various sensitization and public campaigns
that communicate no man is better than the other despite the social class.
Ensure that the education setups employ administrations of either race
to assist fight the segregation situation being born.
A message to each Kenyan or visitor of Kenya to always spread the love
which will improve the citizen’s self-esteem which can be affected by the
several struggles faced in life.
Learning that to obstruct each other is a wrong formula for achieving
and growing in life for humans we belong to each other that is like the right
leg needs a left leg for effective walking.
