I guess some “journalist” tweeted something Blest linked to?

When Trump invites championship-winning athletes to a fast-food shindig at his office, he’s glomming onto their fame and success and implicitly boasting their imprimatur.

Pelosi’s entire plan is “Democrats: Because you believe your only alternative is Republicans.”

(mapeni matatu literally translates to “three pennies” which add up to 30¢)

You. are. not. Kenyan.

I’d like to hear from people about how this isn’t just “the same” from both parties.

lol

Ok, so first of all,

Unlike in Swahili “Ithatu” doesn’t have multiple forms in Gikuyu. Both come from a proto-Bantu form “tatu”.

Right, it’s up to social scientists who do that kind of research professionally to figure that out.

I know very well that matatu is a Kikuyu word

The person who doesn’t know “matatu” isn’t a Gikuyu word “grew up in Kenya and [is] of Kenyan decent [sic]”

As I’ve said repeatedly, the explanation you’re stanning has only your unprofessional support of having heard from a vague number of vague sources (like seriously, it sounds like you’re saying you heard this from a bunch of white jackasses who pushed their weight around for a while to exploit Kenyans in Nairobi), no…

Adam Scott’s response to the “Ice Town” image is the mic drop we all deserve to see:

Except, I’m a social scientist whose whole job is to investigate these kinds of linguistic origins.

And yet, that’s the only one with any shred of external evidence.

I’m a social scientist and do research in eastern Africa that relies on linguistic analysis. This is the explanation I’ve heard from probably two-dozen Kenyans over 6 or so years (the number of times it’s come up in my conversations). And it’s backed up by linguistic analysis.

Matatu, which translates to “three” in Kikuyu,

Absolutely this.

I think it was HuckaSanders who flicked it to NRATV.