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osmiabee · 7 years ago

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I really want to make a coherent post about the intersections of colonialism, global warming, poverty, and church community vs government responsibility and how that restricts both societal and individual movement against homophobia in previously colonised countries but I’ve never actually written anything coherent in my life.

Anyway my white friend compared camel trekking to slavery the other day so that was cool I guess.

#I don't want to have to 'not all white people' this post #but can we bLEASE be mindful of context and gravitas to what people say #like I'm fairly accustomed to white vegans spouting shit but coming from a friend it kinda sucked #also like 3 weeks back someone made a post about how kenya's homophobic president made some dumb ass statement #along the lines of 'gay lions learned it from tourists not kenyans'#and like admittedly it was pretty funny but also it's been on my mind a lot #its incredibly easy for british people to criticise kenya for holding onto 'backwards views'#neglecting to mention that the british imposed those laws and also christianity onto the kenyan people #the poverty and political instability left by colonialism made the idea of direct punishment for sins incredibly present and real #Corrupt governments and lack of NHS/public schools/benefits systems created a vaccum which was filled by the church #those churches and church communities do far more for people than any church in the uk #my grandparents pay school fees for their workers children #the church stepped in to help my uncle sammy's family with food and school fees and life when he died of AIDS #the church is the safety net and centre of communities in poverty #homophobia is HORRIBLE. These church views are HORRIBLE. The treatment of gay people in kenya is unacceptable and HORRIBLE.#however condemning people for requiring the safety nets provided to them by a church community is frustrating and wrong #and treating it as 'why can't kenya just catch up with the uk!' is like... 50 shades of stupid #you know exactly why they havent caught the fuck up yet.#our government our schooling system our nhs is running off the backs of people like my great grandad who were put into concentration camps #anYWAY I didnt realise I would get so heated also I am half white and benefiting from that immensely #the breadwinner in my house is a straight white man and in the last 30 years people have generally worked out that racism... is bad?#politically though I am treated as black so while I'm not absolving myself of british guilt I also feel I have a place to speak on this #this isnt to say that individual kenyans are not responsible for the homophobic views they can hold #but I am saying it is far easier to move away from those views and the churches that reinforce those views in the UK #than in places where stepping away from the church carries far more gravitas #basically... nuance... also white vegans are utterly exhausting sometimes....... that is all #thanks for coming to my ted talk #its 2:30 am #g'night fuckos

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