Nigerian gay activist, Bisi Alimi has dragged Nigerian singer, Simi for her hypocrisy and for allegedly promoting homophobic violence.
Simi had posted a tweet reacting to the death of a black American man in the hands of the American police and she wrote,”
“And we have our own people killing us in the streets and it has become so normal now. It’s almost more abhorrent. As fucked as it is, it is one thing for people to be intimidated by and hate you for being different, but how do you not value someone the exact same as you?”
Bisi Alimi took to Twitter to blast her and called her a hypocrite, adding that she had no right to talk about people hating on others when she herself was promoting homophobic violence.
Apparently in one of Simi’s program, “Stoopid Sessions”, Simi had said that Homosexuality was not natural and this was the cause of Bisi Alimi’s anger.
And we have our own people killing us in the streets and it has become so normal now. It's almost more abhorrent. As fucked as it is, it is one thing for people to be intimidated by and hate you for being different, but how do you not value someone the exact same as you?
— Simi (@SympLySimi) May 27, 2020
There is a name you call the #Nigeria middle/upper class elites that sympathise with abroad blackness but promote local homophobic violence against there own #LGBT; hypocrites. The @SympLySimi of this world. You are a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/ZvnWe0CExb
— Lucifer (HE/HIM) (@bisialimi) May 28, 2020
Can someone please tell her it is the same hate she represents? Does she need a mirror? https://t.co/M2xjKX2nDJ
— Lucifer (HE/HIM) (@bisialimi) May 27, 2020