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Changing the Story of Tomorrow: Inspiration from my East Coast Tour in the US. Exactly 7 years
ago, I took a plane trip from Washington DC to Chicago, Illinois O'Hare after
listening toBarack
Obamaafter the Nelson Mandela Washington Fellowship Session
atRutgers University. Rose & David were kind enough to take me on the
Great Civil Rights trek and we moved all through the east coast through St.
Lois Missouri (sleep), Memphis, Tennessee, Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Selma,
Montgomery County Courthouse, Atlanta CNNHQ, Savannah, Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina, Charleston South Carolina, North and back to DC.
In many ways it was a great travel experience,
but what kept occurring to me was the role of individuals, a single person,
clergy, church, choir, activist, and especially the role of young people in the
civil rights movement. Rosa Parks, an individual, adamant that her rights must
be respected, helped in a small way with the journey of racial integration. It
was young people that forced racial integration on eating places. And in
learning institutions. It was them that made demonstrations possible. It was
them that helped organize. They too suffered a lot.
Sometime, in the face of national tragedy, or
difficult, like joblessness (Kenya now leading in unemployment in the region),
or corruption, or curtailed lending to private sector, we really must begin to
see the role that individuals, thatYOU and I, that a small group,
that a company, a single Cabinet Secretary, a banker, Rugby Team, a single Athlete,
a student, an entrepreneur, can help to play to make things better in our
country.
In my conversations with investors and banks in
the last couple of years, I have been clear that I really think our singular
agenda is to help create jobs for so many young people, create wealth, expand
opportunities for young people atQuestworks and beyond and also inspire self-belief and
confidence at mentorthon. I ask us to find a small role to play. And never to
forget our place in the midst of what's likely to be despair now. It's much
more bearable that way. And much more productive that way. Let's find a space
to play in H.EWilliam Ruto&Rigathi. Let's find something
to do in Media. In advocacy. In business.
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