SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

You cannot be neutral.

Your pastor was one of the first people to defend a man that was openly racist and believed that black women had a lower thinking capacity than men, but all of a sudden, He has nothing to say when it comes to women’s right and violence against women.

Your pastor only quotes scriptures when they align with his opinions. You go into the church and suddenly you are deaf to happenings around you; the killings, rape, femicide, misogyny, all of these things are becoming more pronounced everyday but that doesn’t seem to be a bone of contention in your church.

Your pastor makes misogynistic jokes and comments; you smile and laugh like he isn’t insulting your entire being as a woman. You are an active supporter of every narrative he is selling and let me explain why.

Trying to choose neutrality when the options are yes and no suggest that you do not negate to the problem on ground. You sit in the crowd applauding and howling like a lost puppy, “yes father”, “preach pastor”. You and your pastor preach hate. And I say you and your pastor because even though you may not be the one selling the narrative, you support it by sitting in the audience, by applauding a sermon that was more of a reflection of his personal opinion than it was of scripture.

So yes, you are as guilty as the person you support.

Thousands of girls have been sexually assaulted in one way or the other, but you have decided to keep quiet and be oblivious to it because you still believe that the church shouldn’t be involved in politics.

Your self-righteousness is not taking you to heaven. “What was she wearing?”, but rape has never been about attractiveness, and it has always been about wickedness. You shift blame onto victims and leave offenders roaming around because they tell you they have “repented”. You forget that actions have consequences and the decision of offenders to repent does not disregard the effect of their crimes on the victims.

So, if you still think trying to be neutral is the best thing to do, then you are being complicit in the crimes against women. Silence is not just about keeping quiet; it’s keeping quiet when you could be advocating for victims of different crimes. You stay silent when you could be sharing the petition link to reopen the case of OCHANYA OGBANJE. This is just one example of the thousands of women that have been abused and killed without ever getting justice.

“I don’t have a platform.” Then create a platform and start advocating for people who need to be fought for. Keeping quiet and being ignorant is not going to cut it anymore!!!!! We need to speak about the things going in the world, our country to be specific. We cannot be whining in our houses and expect change to come because it has become clear that change would only come when we demand it.

SILENCE IS COMPLICITY.

The button above contains the link to sign the petiton to reopen the case of OCHANYA OGBANJE. Please sign and share on your platforms.