True, I did not vote for this President, Baraka Hussein Obama, but not because he is black. I didn't vote for him because I thought his opponent in the 2013 election was more progressive. I have no problem with the President being black, and I also have black bosses, black bartenders, and the rest of it. I'm white to the max (admittedly I kissed a black guy once, a roommate, but found I did not like it). I was raised by white parents, and I spent my formative years in white Orange County. Yet not once in my time back home and in Harlem have I ever felt that being black is unnatural or that black work nonstop to bend white people to their dark and devious ways."

Sound a little patronizing? Sound a little all about me?
A country inacts laws a kill all blacks including posting their addresses in the newspaper with a headline that says "kill them". Would the Stranger post the above? How would readers react if a white woman posted the same kind of essay about injustice towards blacks? The shit would hit the fan.

"Why can't the people of these countries see that all of this is just one big distraction?"
I'm sure to those being hunted down and killed it is more than a distraction. It's interesting that you don't see it as a pattern of human rights violations but rather a single incident. Interesting that the death of Trayvon Martin shows America has a race problem. But incident after incident of despicable laws and abuse of minorities in countries in Africa doesn't elicit the same reflection on larger cultural bigotry and supremacy.

"Also, why can't they see that a law of this nature will certainly lead to abuses, that what is called "mission creep" is inevitable? Yes, now you can target gays...making it impossible for him to walk the streets of his own city), but eventually, people who are not gay but are, say, opposed to government corruption, or want free and democratic elections, will suddenly be called gay and conveniently thrown into jail."

So it's not bad enough how if affects gays but how it might spread to non-gays? Interesting that your own article devotes little sympathy to those who have already been victimized by the law or the larger pattern of hatred that this is only a symptom of.
It is interesting that a newspaper in Belgium published a racist cartoon of Obama. Outcry the world over about how bad blacks in Europe have it and how racist Europeans are. Ugandan's enforce Nazi like laws on gays and it is a "distraction" that should be curbed before it affects non-gays. No reflection on the larger issue of injustice and intolerance among the African people (and yes, I realize that Africa like Europe is a continent. Yet no one has a problem slurring the whole continent as racist).

Was this written by the same Charles Mudede who wrote about how Trayvon Martin's death made him fear for his son's safety? How many gay Trayvon's have there been in Uganda so far? I don't see the same compassion for young black males being hunted down in Uganda as there was for the fear that young black males in America would be killed by a white Hispanic man they just punched. Do the parents of these young men being hunted down not care about the safety of their sons as much as Charles and Trayvon's parents did there's? Where is the empathy for them?

Charles Mudede be informed that homosexuality and lesbianism is the worst threat to human existence, kudos to president Museveni.
Oseh, Kampala

This is a great article. Lived in Nigeria for many years, both in the mostly Islamic north and the southern part that was more Christian and traditional African religions.

I remember going to a small local restaurant, a buka, in the northern part of the country, that read "No Bone to Bone Dancing Allowed." Also, on the campus of Ahmadu Bello University, musician Ebenezer Obey was playing live and two men got really excited dancing together. People standing by just gently calmed them down and moved them behind a pillar. They did so as if it was no big deal and everyone laughed.

It used to be that someone could yell "thief"at you for no reason and you could be in danger. Now it's whatever the local word is for gay.

Oh wait. That happens here too!