FW: Why Robert Mugabe just shouted "We are not gays" in his UN speech
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Subject: RE: Why Robert Mugabe just shouted "We are not gays" in his UN speech
Talking about homosexuality – for and against – could be like an obsession with some people. It is a non-issue, except with those of us who are members of clubs, secular or religious, whose rules support or reject homosexual practices. Either way, homosexuality is a reality among us. Based on their environment, some people declare their interests. Others remain closeted.
Pan-Afrikans who are homosexuals, hermaphrodites, bi-sexuals and transvestites, should not be perturbed by hearing President Robert Mugabe, this great Pan-Afrikan Icon and modern revolutionary Afrikan leader, expressing his personal sexual preference at the UN General Assembly. He was probably replying to President Barak Obama reference to the subject in Kenya, during his visit to Afrika recently.
Baba Mugabe is a great leader. He is not necessarily an authority on homosexual matters. For a start, he implied that he was heterosexual and had no experience in this area. Neither is he a psychologist specialising in studying human sexual behaviours.
The fact that His Excellency, the President of the Great Zimbabwean people, said, “we are not gays”, probably served as a distraction from the substance of his major speech at the UN. The occasion was not about people’s sexual choices or the declaration of the same. That was not on the agenda. Was it?
It is unclear who asked whether President Mugabe was gay or otherwise. And since he was reported to have said “we are not gays”, that could be viewed in the collective context, as he represented the AU in his capacity of Chairman of that international organisation during his year’s term of office.
Another reality is, however, that not all Afrikans, those at home and those abroad, are gays. Put it differently, not all Afrikans are heterosexuals. Some are homosexuals, others are hermaphrodites, bi-sexuals and probably transvestites.
Some countries, like South Africa, and others in other parts of the world, legalized same sex relationships. Arguably, partly to avoid the oppressions of minorities and partly because of legislators’ levels of tolerance, diversity and belief that one’s sexual choice is one’s human right.
Pan-Afrikanism is not about the restrictions of individual sexual preferences. Sexual doctrine is not the cause of Black/Afrikan oppressions for centuries. We admire many Afrikan revolutionaries, scholars and thinkers of the past, and today, but we hardly sought to inquire about their true sexual preferences. We all probably assumed that they were, and are, all heterosexuals. One having a family - wife, husband and children, does not tell the true story of the individual’s sexual preference.
And if discriminations, attacks and brutal oppressions, against ‘gays’ are motivated by individual belief system – religious or otherwise, we must recognise that we don’t all believe the same things, theological, politically, etc. We are not homogenous, not even our blood types.
We sought unity among ourselves because we think and believe that we have common experiences. And with unity, we should have a better chance of gaining proper collective respect, develop a system of collective security, self-defense, collective wealth generations, collective prosperity and well-being. In short, based on our protracted historical experiences over five hundred years, Global Afrika developed common interests.
Heterosexuals have no greater right than homosexuals, hermaphrodites, bi-sexuals or transvestites, to impose their sexual preferences on others. In the heterosexual community we have rape, abuse and all sorts of sexual anti-social behaviors.
Given the great number of homosexuals in the world, human population is still growing at a rapid rate. Humanity is not about to be extinct. Certainly not among Global Afrika.
Pan-Afrikanism is broad enough to embrace people of diverse sexual preferences. Liberation fighters who gave their lives in the past, for our Afrikan Cause, during various campaigns, on a statistical basis, many among them were homosexuals.
It is worth repeating that homosexuals, hermaphrodites, bi-sexuals and transvestites have human rights, not less than those of heterosexuals’. And so, those with a different sexual preference to heterosexuals should not allow themselves to be intimidated by sexual bigotry. They should be true to themselves. The other reality is, homosexual do not produce babies. The vast bulk of humanity are produced by heterosexuals. Among these are homosexuals, hermaphrodites, bi-sexuals and heterosexuals. Arguably, transvestites are probably learnt habits.
Civilized laws in civilized communities must protect everybody – the majority and the minority. Those laws should also protect us from girlfriend, wife, husband and boyfriend, beaters, child abusers, rapists, murderers, terrorists, thieves, fraudsters, exploiters of the poor and vulnerable, among others.
Homophobia is a disease, like xenophobia, racism, sexism, islamophobia and other hard core prejudices plaguing humanity.
Long live Robert Mugabe, a practicing Catholic. May he teach us lessons of human tolerance, as his Savior, Jesus Christ, taught the Human Family. Leave the judgement to those who are worthy.
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Subject: Why Robert Mugabe just shouted "We are not gays" in his UN speech
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