Dear Editor,
In trying to make their case for the promotion of the homosexual lifestyle, some advocates have been equating the “circumstances” of homosexuals to that of the enslavement of Black people and the subsequent post-slavery discrimination. This is perhaps one of the greatest insults to Black people everywhere – heterosexual, homosexual or otherwise!
The enslavement of Black people is the single greatest crime against humanity and one for which Europe is yet to make recompense. To hear advocates of the homosexual agenda trivialize it, as they have been doing as of late, must outrage every Black person in Belize and indeed, the world.
Black people and homosexuals are not similarly circumstanced! Homosexuals have never been captured, chained and transported thousands of miles away from their homeland and enslaved for centuries! They have never been sold like chattels. They have never been deprived of their culture: their language, their food, their religion. They have never been made to work like beasts of burden for meager rations and without proper compensation. They have never been beaten and killed at the whims of their masters, and with impunity. They have never had their women raped and impregnated – their race diluted.
All this and more Black people have had to endure. And why? Simply because of the color of their skin!
The crime against Black people did not stop with the end of slavery. It continued, albeit in a different form. Blacks were segregated and had to fight to be integrated, to stand as equals with their former enslavers.
Homosexuals, on the other hand, have never been segregated; they enjoy equal opportunities to jobs, education, land, health care, etc. Heck, many of them hold high political offices and appointments in Belize. It amazes me how it is then that they can even attempt to put themselves in the same lake, much less the same boat, as “Black people”.
Some argue that slavery was a long time ago and that Black people should “get over it”. If you are Black and share that view, then one can understand how we ended up enslaved in the first place.
Cleverly, the global architects of the homosexual agenda have hitched their campaign to the recent social construct: “human rights”. It is my view that there are only two inherent human rights: the right to life and the right to liberty. Slavery assaulted both!
The Jews suffered horrendous discrimation at the hands of the Nazis in the last century; have you ever heard the advocates of the homosexual agenda compare the “plight” of the homosexuals with the “plight” of the Jews?
Ask yourself why not?
Major Lloyd Jones (R)