Uganda: Bishop Calls for Marriage Across Tribes

http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2853

New Vision (Kampala)

Cyprian Musoke, Geresom Musamali, Norman Katende and Paul Kiwuuwa.

THE Assistant Bishop of Kampala, the Rev Zac Niringiye, has called for http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3049 marriages as a way of promoting unity to avoid conflicts.

“I want to see more of our children crossing the Nile for http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2894.

Violence erupted in Kenya following a disputed general election. Over 124 people have so far died in the ethnic clashes. The presidential polls pitted the opposition’s Raila Odinga from the Dhaluo tribe against the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu.”Some of you cry when you hear that your daughter has got a man from a different tribe. That is nonsense. There is nothing wrong with tribes and regions. Unless we get rid of tribalism we are heading nowhere.”

http://allafrica.com/stories/200801020068.html

While the Rev Niringiye means well, he is parroting the same kind of politically correct thinking prevalent in the West. Instead of “soft genocide” through the loss of genetic integrity the answer is self determination and mutual respect. To see the effect of “cross-cultural unions” we only have to look at Latin America to see how “stable” such a solution is.

2008-01-25