{UAH} POLITICS OF INSULTS

As Uganda discusses the freedom to insult the president, I am confident that no black person on this planet is as insulted, ridiculed, mocked and defamed as my father. Including multiple times in public by Mr. Yoweri Museveni himself.

Yet I never heard my father call him, or anyone derogatory names.

Once he made a joke that if Julius Nyerere was a young woman and didn't have white hair, he might have married him. Some media said he had insulted Nyerere, yet in reality, President Idi Amin was responding to a question about the two countries relations and simply meant that he had no personal grudges with the Tanzanian president.

Learned individuals sidelined the important political point and chose to cling to what probably served the hatred in themselves and claimed that it was a big insult. How?

President Amin never insulted people whether publicly or privately. Compare his words about Nyerere to all that is said about him by the media and his political opponents to this day.

Museveni has publicly referred to him as swine, buffoon, idiot, name it.

Surprisingly all those insulting him think they are being dignified upright individuals as they do so.

My father would have become the richest man on the continent just by suing every global media outlet that defamed him. Only one Dennis Hill was ever charged and found guilty of defamation in his book about my father. Nobody else.

My father refused to carry the luggage brought about by the onslaught of media generated hatred against him. He chose forgiveness in his own heart as recommended in his faith while he prayed five times a day, and left the matter to God.

Compared to all those who have died or will die as angry, pathological liars, vicious genocidaires, corrupt thieves, vindictive neo-colonialist plunderers, vindictive media journalists and untried mass murderers in suits who claim righteousness in their killings while simultaneously insulting him.

I wonder who we will actually find in hell.

Meanwhile, I would like to take this opportunity to call for the release from jail and dropping of all charges against Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a university professor who is currently accused of insulting Mr. Museveni and is imprisoned at Uganda's main Maximum security prison.

What I am struggling to understand in the case is that if the scholar was already forgiven by Museveni's wife for saying that the First Lady's brain "is tinier than her narrow vagina", then what is Museveni's big deal with being called "a pair of buttocks" sincerely?

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