Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing
A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://twitter.com/IzmsHasRisen/status/1366183670575476739

Despite decades of claims by "Black" and "Afro centric" leaders proclaiming that homosexuality is not African and is in fact a European or Saxon import, there is irrefutable proof that that is a lie perpetuated by Black leaders who are funded by the very same systems they rebuke

Your Black leaders are hosting all of their conferences and events on property they don't own and by sponsors we will never see. Why? Because they are in cahoots with white Supremacy to rewrite history after being promised a seat at the table once their work is done

Homosexuality and Queerness has always been a part of African culture. Sexual fluidity is arguably a staple of proto and ancient African cultures. It was not rooted in shame but in fact was an honor and even a form of currency.

Welcome first, our beloved King Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa, the 31st Kabaka of Bugunda.

Baba Danieri is also known as Mwanga II of Buganda. He considered the harbingers of the Abrahamic faith, the greatest threat to his kingdom. His father pit the 3 faiths against each other to hold them off but during Baba Mwanga's reign, they encroached upon his borders

So dedicated to stopping Europe from influencing his region, he imposed that any convert to Christianity would result in death. On October 29 1885 (a good day to honor him), he had archbishop James Hannington murked before he could reach his kingdom

In May of 1886, he mustered up the entirety of his audacity and declared people choose between European Christianity and the flame.

Sidenote: the King believed their interpretation of religion was evil and believed it would taint the African bloodline to submit to such a power.

The King didn't have such an adverse view of the Arabs though. In this excerpt from "Baakisimba: Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda"
By Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza

Now when the African pages converted, they refused The Kings advances. The King noted that only the European Christians denied him and that enraged him. So much so that he burned them.
How it went....
King: Suck my dick
Europeans: No
King:

Now the story is written that Mwanga II of Buganda couldn't stand being denied. There is no mention of him combating the hypocrisy he saw in them Europeans. Nor the fact that he noticed that they refused when asked but would TAKE without consent

Baba Danieri Mwanga II of Buganda didn't understand the rules of the European way of righteousness. He knew that color played a part in why they wouldn't "submit" to him. He considered converts traitors and "possibly" the equivalent of an Uncle Tom..

One of the most successful and feared leaders against white Supremacy was a bisexual African king. That's not new though. That's ancestral baby. It just repeats

We honor you, Mwanga II of Buganda. May God cover you and favorite you in death like He did David. David who was just like you. Who loved just like you did. Baba Mwanga II, you sent our adversary into the fire in faith that the smoke would be new clouds over liberated horizons.

Let's look at the Chibados who were named and observed by the Portuguese after sending missionaries in Angola. That Congo territory. I want to make sure y'all know where that is because the Congo is the heart of the African Warrior spirit. Ogou energy

The Chibados were highly effeminate cross dressers who married men. Apparently, the priest were flabbergasted because these marriages were of high esteem. In fact, in Angola, it was said that sodomy was rampant.
"Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex" By Amara Das Wilhelm

So even the non effeminate men were engaging in homosexual acts as well as "lifestyles". They were marrying these men! Marriage! Notice how the European priests are very homophobic towards the Black. Notice how they talk about Africa! Sound familiar?!!!

Another queer tradition is the practice of "bian nkû”ma". "Bian nkû”ma" is of Bantu origin (Gabon / Cameroon area) and it is the SPIRITUAL practice of using sodomy between two men to transfer wealth and power.
Semen is considered a life giving element in Africa.

Hoteps: We was Kangz!!!
Me and Historical accuracy: How you a King but can't take no dick, Baba? You is a pauper until that pussy pop, Chief

Another tribe I wanna look at is the Azande of the Northern Congo. Homosexuality/Queerness is recorded as being Indigenous. When the men went to war, the wives would often shack up. Widows would end up being sistas in scissors and all that

The Azande men would also pay groomprice. So the same sex marriages required all of the same things of a hetero marriage. This also would shock observers. Not only was sensuality fluid and interchangeable but so were the gender roles.

I also want to highlight the Dahomeyan Warriors. 1. Because Dahomey is the only real island of "Lesbos". The Greeks were inspired by some West African Warrior women. Y'all owe Dahomey because without Dahomey, there would be no Themyscra.

But the Dahomeyan warrior women were also sexually fluid and often times would marry each other. They were the toughest warriors in the region. They guarded the King. Well in Dahomey culture the women are the warriors..the men are kings and priests

So both Dahomeyan men and women engaged in queer behavior. Actively. And enjoyed it. Some of that has spilled into Voodoo as well. Dahomeyan spirits are fiery and fluid.

Also, the Yoruba, Dagaaba, and Igbo didn't recognize gender. They believed you had to wait for your child to grow to see what or who it would become. Gender was assigned via energy and not genitalia.

There are so many other cultures and customs of proto and ancient Africa were Queerness and homosexuality ran rampid. This thread alone proves that Europe was surprised to see such a fluidity having a hold over an entire continent.

It was these encounters that made white people feel like they had and have agency over our bodies. But white people ALSO were able to convert poor Africans by offering them a "place in Heaven" if they turned against their nature and homeland.

Europeans taught Black men especially to despise queer Black men especially by offering them what they are STILL fighting for today. Your heterosexual afro centric brethren are descendents of Black traitors who sold out their king's for the promise of 40 acres and a mule...

And after they destroyed Africa, rewrote Africa, and made Black queer people public enemy number one....those same phobic Blacks didn't get what they were promised so you know what they did? They made a mule out of black queers. Sit on OUR backs while they harvest OUR land

And that's why your favorite Afro centric speakers are hosting out of hotel rooms and masonic buildings and the like. Africa won't bless no bigot and definitely won't honor a hatemonger.

Y'all got initiates into African Spirituality that don't know none of this information. Why? Cause they not African and they not African blessed. Y'all let non Africans and house negroes lead the revolution because they were visibly homophobic while appearing racist presenting

Y'all have an obligation as Black Spiritualists to know this information. Also, for this people who say "You're Black before you're gay", I want you to read this thread and know that the only people to other black queer people are black straight people

And it is because of people like you that our Gods have abandoned us. Because of y'all, Africa has forced us to call Her Africa. We will never know what SHE first called herself because SHE has decided to other herself from us....because of y'all treason. Because of yall

Your Dr. Umars and Professor Griffs and that other nigga who's name escapes me. Starts with a T maybe or maybe an S, idk..anyway those is Europeans. European spirits walk with them. Those are the equivalent of white saints representing black energies...but in reverse

BLACK IS QING
AND THE Q IS FOR QUEER MOTHERFUCKA!!!!!

Here's a good book to read for more on this topic

(P.S. Pay attention to books I mentioned throughout the thread. Get them for more context.

Sidenote: I KNOW this thread centers around queer men mainly. There's a reason for that. In Proto and Ancient Africa, women did what the fuck they wanted and they were respected. That is why "men" or non binary folk with "women spirits" were just as valued.

So of course part of homophobia and the war against human nature involved destroying the Goddess and Her power. It wasn't just an attack on Queerness, it was an attack on the Mother, Her land, and ALLLLL Her children.