With
Ebow Duncan
RIGHT AND WRONG
Some
30 years ago no one anywhere on earth could have dreamt that at some future
date, even priests in cassock could proclaim themselves as homosexuals and
still be able to administer the Holy Communion.
How
could any self-respecting persons in the days of Yoo admit that their sexual
preference is one which engages their own sexual kind?
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| Benjamin Netanyahu, an undisputed terrorist |
The politicians, the priests, the superstars,
the generals, the kings and queens were all united in their condemnation of
same sex marriage and all that it came along with.
Over
the years, however, what was wrong has become or is becoming right and what was
right is taking on the full blown characteristics of what is wrong.
Can you believe that a British Prime Minister
actually told African governments that they could face punishment if they
failed to accept same sex marriages.
Indeed
the British Government was threatening to withdraw or withhold so called aid as
a means of pushing African governments to accept a situation in which men were
free to sleep with men and women could also jump on each other.
This
is surely a reflection of a seriously changing world with its moral code being
turned upside down.
40 years ago no African worth his description
could in any way or form support colonialism. Even friends of the colonial
establishment like K.A. Busia and J.B Danquah were active participants in the
work of the national liberation movement.
Today
all kinds of people and institutions are making excuses for the colonial
enterprise in some parts of the world.
Morocco
which claimed to be in the vanguard of African Liberation a while ago has
itself become the colonial occupier of Western Sahara and it is busy pillaging
the resources of the territory.
What
is even more interesting is that Ghana which was the beacon of African
Liberation and unity and was ready to pull out of the commonwealth on that
account tolerates Moroccan colonialism.
Isn’t
it shocking that a country like Ghana continues to have diplomatic relations with
Morocco, a colonial occupying power which has pulled out of the African Union?
Today,
Ghana will pretend to be in the middle when it comes to the colonial occupation
of Western Sahara.
Palestine
also presents another interesting case.
Israel is the colonial occupier of Palestine and again Ghana pretends to
be in the middle, having diplomatic relations with both Palestine and Israel.
The
shock came only two weeks ago when Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana refused to vote for
respect for human rights in the Palestinian occupied territory.
So
far no official explanation has been offered for Ghana’s current stand, but if
you add that to the visit to Israel by the Foreign Minister and the visit to
Ghana of the racist Ivigdor Lieberman then a clear picture emerges.
How
can we compromise on human rights and colonial occupation in Palestine of all
places and especially at a time when an active member of the Palestine
Solidarity of Campaign is the President of the Republic of Ghana?
Who
will tell the supporters of Donald Trump that they are wrong in putting their
weight behind a racist bigot?
In
many respects when I look at Mr Trump he reminds me of Big Dada Iddi Amin. His
reckless disregard for other peoples’ sensitivity, his anti-Islamic rhetoric,
his bullying antics and his complete lack of sophistication mark him out as a
very dangerous politician.
Hey,
but who is the judge here?.
For
some right is wrong and wrong is right.
Some even put it more bluntly when they say
that one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.
But
truth be told, those who slits the throats of others simply because they refuse
to accept their religious doctrine cannot be freedom fighters.
Those
who discriminate against black people simply because they look different cannot
be described as freedom fighters and those who continue to occupy Palestine and
Western Sahara are not freedom fighters.
In
some circumstances right is right and wrong is wrong. Period!
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