To the President of the United States of America, while you
tour through our shores burdened with global issues of security/ terrorism,
economy, health care and national ties; kindly note that gay right is the least
of our problems.
The Kenya you visited has been stricken by Al-Shabaab and is
frankly strategising ways to eradicate the incursion these external insurgents.
It is quite too serious an issue for the issue of accepting various sexual
oriented clans to be chipped in. President Uhuru’s response to that request
must have settled that, but for emphasis sake, this open letter intends to help
you reason with those of us born and breed on African soil.
For generations, the African society and every society as
well exist and continue to procreate, courtesy the only natural sexual
orientation we are familiar with. This same sexual orientation is the only way
through which a new human can be birth to naturally…, the sexual relationship
between a MAN and a WOMAN. Pardon me to
say that a POTUS would not exist naturally without the sexual union of a MAN
and a WOMAN.
With that by the side, the African community is still
recovering from the ruthless blow of Ebola and is still overwhelmed by one
nation’s achievement of marking a year without any record of polio. Gay right
still doesn’t seem like an issue that would surface over here.
Be also reminded that there are African countries experiencing
drought/ famine, killer diseases like malaria, cholera, HIV/ AIDS, etc. In
essence, we are still trying to put out “shit” together. We have been
classified as third world nations and probably have not reached that level of accommodating
unnatural sexual orientations.
Dear Obama, by the time an African spaceship lands Mars,
Jupiter or Pluto, your gay right proposal might have made a lot sense to us.
Right now, we are struggling to put food on our tables, cloths on our backs and
live above one dollar a day. Most importantly, we are trying hard to establish
a system that provides employment to many young Africans and take most of them
off the streets, especially those deceived by the sick doctrine of insurgents.
Look around Sir, campaigns on high tempo are trying to
inform people in the rural areas to wash their hands with ash (not even soap)
and water, while volunteer health workers are running out of free mosquito nets
to distribute. These among many are problems the African society is dealing
with.
More so, the kind of protests seen on our shores is of a
different orientation with the ones on your shores. A quick example is the
famous #BBOG, frankly of no connection with #LGBT. Workers are protesting for
salary raise, Universities crying for better pay and infrastructure, maternal
deaths and girl child education, among many are the issues we wake to every
morning.
And finally, a natural cause has never demanded for right. Heterosexuals
have never fought for the right to exist because it does not only result to a
pleasurable experience, but also makes reproduction possible. Even the cats gay
couple adopt exist because a MALE cat mated with a FEMALE cat.
In order not to over flog this issue, Africa has way too
many issues on its priority list. For some African countries, Gay right is not
even visible on the list of the least of their priorities.
Alicia Keys & Swizz
