It has been a while since I last posted.
Probably because there has been nothing much in my surroundings worth
reporting...... Until last night when I received the following text:
Dear whitemen,
U asked us to wear coats under hot sun, we
did; U said we should speak your language, we have obediently ignored ours. U
asked us to always tie a rope around our necks like goats, we have obeyed
without questioning. U asked our ladies to wear dead people's hair instead of
the natural hair God gave to them, they have obeyed. U said we should marry
just one woman in the midst of plenty black angels, we reluctantly agreed. You
said our decent girls should wear catapults instead of the conventional pants,
they have obeyed. You asked us to use rubber in order to control our birth
rate, we agreed yet we all know sweetness of live SEX! Now U want our MEN to
sleep with fellow MEN & WOMEN with fellow WOMEN so that God would punish us
like Sodom and Gomora? White folk, we say Nonsense!! We don't agree with U this
time! As proud Ugandans, we say a huge NO to GAY relationships. If U say NO to
HOMOSEXUALS & LESBIANS, pass this on. Thank U.
YES! Sent to my cellphone!!! First of, I
detest broadcast messages of this nature, if you have nothing to tell me,
kindly wait until you do to text me.
That's not why I decided to share this
message however, it is the ignorance and sheer stupidity of this text that
angers me. Africa is westernizing -very true - but it is our lack of belief in
our system that causes us to seek others' identity. Why are magazines defining
beauty by western standards? Why can't we have our own measure of beauty? Why
are we spending money in millions to take our children to western system
schools to learn the western ways? Why not take your child to the local school
in your village? I can go on and on about how it is we working and spending so
much to adopt the western ways and not the other way round. We have rigorously
erased our indigenous culture and replaced it with the western culture out of
choice. We had a chance to revert to our old ways at the end of colonization,
but we chose to enhance their very culture instead. So such a text should not
be written by any sane being. Instead, we should evaluate the appropriateness of
the culture and individually decide which one to adopt and which to throw out
the window. Remember, one man's meat is another man's poison. I for one love
technology, I don't care what culture it comes from. I just know it makes my
life a whole lot easier and I'm not trading it for anything!
I won't even get into the LGBT rights. It
will be too much of a mouthful for one post, but it is definitely my next post.
As you well know by now, I am an advocate of living one's life!!
Now before you go broadcasting your
ignorance to the world, remember you have a choice on how to live your
life. Quit pointing fingers and take control and responsibility of your
choices!!
Everyday we have choices, and every night
we go to bed with the consequences of these choices!!
The society's moral antenna is out of order and the jury is still out as to whether one's sexual orientation should be chosen by the society or by one self. Think about the number of men and women who in this country of ours and every where else in Africa who have had 3 somes and or even orgies and still claim to be straight. That still falls under the bracket. Yet we are quick to throw them under the bus and crucify them.
ReplyDeleteGod in his infinite nature and power has let man make his choice and has not interfered...it's called free will. But don't get me wrong, for whatever man choses so shall he suffer. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Let's all remember that next time before we wallow in the miasma of our own ignorance.
I have never quite understood, why we are so idle as to spend hours caring who sleeps with who instead of minding that which is ours. Really??? What happened to living our lives??!! The mere thought of this tires me.
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