Very Eye opening about our nation if you didnt already know
http://ugandansatheart.org/2011/05/01/museveni-is-now-a-captive-of-his-own-deeds/
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Uganda: The worst place to be gay... REALLY!?!?!
Having watched the Documentary that was aired on BBC3 off youtube titled "Uganda: Worst place to be Gay" i was left heavy hearted for our nation seeing the way it had been potrayed by this Radio Dj. Yes for those of you who might not have caught that, Scott Mills the journalist who saw it as his "duty" to "risk" his life and come to Uganda and cover the "plight" of gay people there is infact a radio Dj and for all intents and purposes holds no journalistic credibility. This is like Dj Alex Ndawula of Capital radio waking up tomorrow and deciding he is going to Libya to report on the ongoing events. Just because you work at a radio station does not make you a journalist. Being Gay himself and having heard the biased stories from asylum seekers from Uganda, under the pretext that their lives were in danger here, in the UK its safe to say he too was already biased and this alone should have been reason enough for BBC not to send him as the subject hit too close to home. So this is where I begin to ask, what happened to impartial journalism? If you're going to report on an issue involving factors as big as a whole nation and a sexual orientation my assumption would be that you would at least make an effort to ensure that both parties involved are represented fairly.
I'm going to touch on a few things the documentary brought up that left me wondering if they actually expected any Ugandans to watch it.
1. Gays are discriminated against in the employment field
where in Uganda do the job application forms have a box where you have to tick your sexual orientation??? If anything most of the time there is no paper work involved unless you work in an office. Shopkeepers, drivers and various other job opportunities no one asks you about who you slept with last night as they offer you the job so why would you even bother to bring it up if you really want the job. People leave details out that might affect their chances of getting a job, so why don't you. What makes you think you deserve special treatment??? Remember This Is Africa.
And then one of the gays he interviewed was confident enough to say "We don't even have blankets" with a look that was searching for pity, ignoring the fact that all the beds in the room were covered with blankets, This was a grown man possibly in his mid 20s talking about how they don't even have blankets, and yet before this little dramatic showing they had just been at a bar the previous night drinking beer and playing pool, can afford to buy beer but cant afford a blanket???
And who exactly was he trying to blame for this situation? the anti-gay Ugandans??? where do we factor in in all this?
2. Gays are forced to live in slums.
If this "journalist" had any journalistic chops he would know the greater percentage of the people in Kampala live in slums, are we to believe they're all gay??? This is where most of the people in Kampala living below the poverty line are forced to live because they can not afford anything better. Fast forward to the gay woman who was living in the house with a gated fence, glass windows, burglar proof which Scott Mills said verbatim "...Its like a prison, you see with the gate and the glass and the walls, the bars on the windows..." it was almost amusing. That just showed how ignorant he really was about Uganda and didn't bother doing any research emphasising the point that he really has no journalistic credibility, but i digress
So this woman living in the gated area, i thought all gays in Uganda were forced to live in slums... And she said where she lives people mind their own business, so such areas do exist in Uganda huh... but i thought it was the worst place to be gay... And how does she make the rent for this place? A job... i thought Ugandans didn't employ gays...
Then there was all the dramatics, its pure comedy if you can ignore the fact that he is working really hard to make your country look bad.
On the drive to the gay womans residence lol, they're driving on a clear main road and the driver is telling Mills to duck, people might see him and know he's gay and this would put the woman in danger lol lol lol. Then as he got out of the van at the womans gated residence, he was still ducking lol, really!?!?!
There is also the bit where, after Steven Bahati ended the interview the driver great instincts that he has, i think he should be a spy or something, sensed something was wrong and that after all this Bahati apparently sent police to the hotel he thought they were staying at to "seize the tapes and arrest us". okay...
where did bahati even get an idea of where they were staying to send the police and how do you know it was to seize the tapes. Its like he was playing fill in the blanks the whole documentary.
We cant say whether or not Bahati tried to have them arrested but lets try and break this down, where did Bahati a mere MP get the clout that gives him the permission to have BBC representatives arrested not to mention of British nationality. A politician would know the political repercussions of doing that so are we to assume David Bahati is really that stupid???
And to top it all off, the people Mills interviewed, are those the only ugandans he could find??? I am an Anti-gay Ugandan myself and I do not agree with anything they said so how come no one with my line of thinking was interviewed? Is he trying to tell us that outside of downtown there are no ugandans, he went to Makerere and he couldn't find anyone else to interview there besides The Onion editor which by the way is a tabloid and anything they print is to be taken with a grain of salt, no students, no lecturers, no professors, nothing?? He conveniently failed to find any educated minds to interview in the whole city but managed to find various illiterate ones.
He then went ahead to refer to Ugandan newspapers publishing anti gay articles and again refers to Red Pepper and The Onion, what kind of journalist is this who can't even tell the difference between an actual newspaper and a Tabloid?
Mills went on to bring up the churches of Uganda but didn't bother to interview any head of the churches he was so eager to mention are against homosexuality. His Grace the most Revd Henry Luke Orombi the Archbishop of Uganda would be the man to speak for the Anglicans (about 36% of the Ug pop.) and His grace Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga for the Catholics (about 41%) so why was Mills interviewing a random pastor, Solomon Male, no offence but till that interview I had never heard of him and as a Ugandan i would like someone I know to represent me and or my opinion.
This being my blog im going to take this as an opportunity to say I am anti-gay BUT I do not want the gay people to be killed for being gay, what I want is for them to fully appreciate where they are and act accordingly. Stop flaunting your homosexuality in a place where you know full well it's frowned upon. This Is Africa, the modernised parts of it are built on religious doctrines, the Bible and Quran are against homosexuality, the illiterate parts believe in the natural order of things, most people are still not even comfortable with a girl in a tight fitting dress, so what makes you think they'll be quick to condone same sex relationships?
I do agree entirely with the imprisonment preferably for life of any homosexual found preying on young impressionable minds, to a non Ugandan this might seem like a random situation but this actually does happen a lot in our boarding schools. I also support the death penalty for any sodomisers of teenagers.
In so many other countries homosexuals cant even dare to appear in a documentary confidently declaring they're gay and continue to live in that country. In most muslim countries they don't even talk about homosexuals and this is not because its accepted, In Jamaica for example a famous musician who is anti-gay, Buju Banton released a song titled Boom Bye-Bye which decrees that gays "haffi dead" ("have to die") and there are so many other anti gay songs that are very popular in Jamaica, in Zimbabwe Mugabe, The president, declared that Homosexuals must be killed, in South Africa the first nation to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, there have been 31 lesbian murders since 1998 and only one conviction with estimates of about 10 corrective rapes per week in just Capetown and Uganda is the worst place to be gay???
C'mon SON!!! GTFOHWTBS
Saw this today and i thought i should add it because it validates the argument the churches of Uganda have been making for any of those who are in doubt and also emphasises why we as Ugandans should not give up our fight against homosexuality in our nation because there is a real solution, GOD.
I'm going to touch on a few things the documentary brought up that left me wondering if they actually expected any Ugandans to watch it.
1. Gays are discriminated against in the employment field
where in Uganda do the job application forms have a box where you have to tick your sexual orientation??? If anything most of the time there is no paper work involved unless you work in an office. Shopkeepers, drivers and various other job opportunities no one asks you about who you slept with last night as they offer you the job so why would you even bother to bring it up if you really want the job. People leave details out that might affect their chances of getting a job, so why don't you. What makes you think you deserve special treatment??? Remember This Is Africa.
And then one of the gays he interviewed was confident enough to say "We don't even have blankets" with a look that was searching for pity, ignoring the fact that all the beds in the room were covered with blankets, This was a grown man possibly in his mid 20s talking about how they don't even have blankets, and yet before this little dramatic showing they had just been at a bar the previous night drinking beer and playing pool, can afford to buy beer but cant afford a blanket???
And who exactly was he trying to blame for this situation? the anti-gay Ugandans??? where do we factor in in all this?
2. Gays are forced to live in slums.
If this "journalist" had any journalistic chops he would know the greater percentage of the people in Kampala live in slums, are we to believe they're all gay??? This is where most of the people in Kampala living below the poverty line are forced to live because they can not afford anything better. Fast forward to the gay woman who was living in the house with a gated fence, glass windows, burglar proof which Scott Mills said verbatim "...Its like a prison, you see with the gate and the glass and the walls, the bars on the windows..." it was almost amusing. That just showed how ignorant he really was about Uganda and didn't bother doing any research emphasising the point that he really has no journalistic credibility, but i digress
So this woman living in the gated area, i thought all gays in Uganda were forced to live in slums... And she said where she lives people mind their own business, so such areas do exist in Uganda huh... but i thought it was the worst place to be gay... And how does she make the rent for this place? A job... i thought Ugandans didn't employ gays...
Then there was all the dramatics, its pure comedy if you can ignore the fact that he is working really hard to make your country look bad.
On the drive to the gay womans residence lol, they're driving on a clear main road and the driver is telling Mills to duck, people might see him and know he's gay and this would put the woman in danger lol lol lol. Then as he got out of the van at the womans gated residence, he was still ducking lol, really!?!?!
There is also the bit where, after Steven Bahati ended the interview the driver great instincts that he has, i think he should be a spy or something, sensed something was wrong and that after all this Bahati apparently sent police to the hotel he thought they were staying at to "seize the tapes and arrest us". okay...
where did bahati even get an idea of where they were staying to send the police and how do you know it was to seize the tapes. Its like he was playing fill in the blanks the whole documentary.
We cant say whether or not Bahati tried to have them arrested but lets try and break this down, where did Bahati a mere MP get the clout that gives him the permission to have BBC representatives arrested not to mention of British nationality. A politician would know the political repercussions of doing that so are we to assume David Bahati is really that stupid???
And to top it all off, the people Mills interviewed, are those the only ugandans he could find??? I am an Anti-gay Ugandan myself and I do not agree with anything they said so how come no one with my line of thinking was interviewed? Is he trying to tell us that outside of downtown there are no ugandans, he went to Makerere and he couldn't find anyone else to interview there besides The Onion editor which by the way is a tabloid and anything they print is to be taken with a grain of salt, no students, no lecturers, no professors, nothing?? He conveniently failed to find any educated minds to interview in the whole city but managed to find various illiterate ones.
He then went ahead to refer to Ugandan newspapers publishing anti gay articles and again refers to Red Pepper and The Onion, what kind of journalist is this who can't even tell the difference between an actual newspaper and a Tabloid?
Mills went on to bring up the churches of Uganda but didn't bother to interview any head of the churches he was so eager to mention are against homosexuality. His Grace the most Revd Henry Luke Orombi the Archbishop of Uganda would be the man to speak for the Anglicans (about 36% of the Ug pop.) and His grace Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga for the Catholics (about 41%) so why was Mills interviewing a random pastor, Solomon Male, no offence but till that interview I had never heard of him and as a Ugandan i would like someone I know to represent me and or my opinion.
This being my blog im going to take this as an opportunity to say I am anti-gay BUT I do not want the gay people to be killed for being gay, what I want is for them to fully appreciate where they are and act accordingly. Stop flaunting your homosexuality in a place where you know full well it's frowned upon. This Is Africa, the modernised parts of it are built on religious doctrines, the Bible and Quran are against homosexuality, the illiterate parts believe in the natural order of things, most people are still not even comfortable with a girl in a tight fitting dress, so what makes you think they'll be quick to condone same sex relationships?
I do agree entirely with the imprisonment preferably for life of any homosexual found preying on young impressionable minds, to a non Ugandan this might seem like a random situation but this actually does happen a lot in our boarding schools. I also support the death penalty for any sodomisers of teenagers.
In so many other countries homosexuals cant even dare to appear in a documentary confidently declaring they're gay and continue to live in that country. In most muslim countries they don't even talk about homosexuals and this is not because its accepted, In Jamaica for example a famous musician who is anti-gay, Buju Banton released a song titled Boom Bye-Bye which decrees that gays "haffi dead" ("have to die") and there are so many other anti gay songs that are very popular in Jamaica, in Zimbabwe Mugabe, The president, declared that Homosexuals must be killed, in South Africa the first nation to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, there have been 31 lesbian murders since 1998 and only one conviction with estimates of about 10 corrective rapes per week in just Capetown and Uganda is the worst place to be gay???
C'mon SON!!! GTFOHWTBS
Saw this today and i thought i should add it because it validates the argument the churches of Uganda have been making for any of those who are in doubt and also emphasises why we as Ugandans should not give up our fight against homosexuality in our nation because there is a real solution, GOD.
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