Thread by @Jasmyne

This is for the #queer groups screaming the loudest about what's going on #Uganda but who normally can't be bothered with the Black people here in America...

It’s really easy to read a headline like “Uganda president signs anti-gay law that includes death penalty” and immediately go into your First World privilege and start in with the condemnation.

But before you start automatically reposting and sharing a story you are only reading the headline about, let me share a few things with you for consideration.

First and foremost, Uganda was colonized by Britain (white people). So you can start there.

Uganda, like other colonized countries, was heavily influenced by established Christian churches (white people), particularly the Pentecostalists and Seventh-Day Adventists, who publicly condemn #LGBTQ people and relationships.

Where their anti-gay rhetoric and policies have failed in America, these same churches have used their money and succeeded in under-developed (not third-world) Black countries.

None of this pardons Uganda today for its egregious human rights abuses of LGBTQ people. What it does, is put things into perspective and provide context.

A context that many white-led queer civil rights groups (and sadly some Black people too) failed to take into consideration before blanketly villainizing any Black countries’ treatment of LGBTQ people.

Which, by the way, can backfire and cause more harm to the queer people living in those countries than actually help them.

What I see happening in Uganda is a continuance of traumatic colonization syndrome, which includes the mental slavery of Christianity brought to Uganda by the British colonizers (white people) perpetuated today by American Christian evangelicals (white people).

So while President Biden is threatening sanctions and other gay groups who usually can’t be bothered with the Blacks in America, much less in another country, have so much to say, I want to know how much money has gone to queer groups in Uganda?

How much money is going to Jamaica and other Black countries where being queer can be a deadly combination? I also want to know how many queer Ugandans do we welcome with open arms and give asylum to each year?