Are you searching for a soul mate or sponsor?

Feb 20, 2009

Look at our Meeting Point corner for lonely hearts: Many want whites, sugar mummies and a ‘soul mate’ who is willing to sponsor ABC and D.

By Jacobs Odongo and Jude Katende
Look at our Meeting Point corner for lonely hearts: Many want whites, sugar mummies and a ‘soul mate’ who is willing to sponsor ABC and D.

In particular, the search for white lovers is not strange anymore; not even when self-fulfilment seekers use it nonchalantly. And these pleas for whites as ‘donor soul mates,’ in newspapers, magazines, radio, on the internet and through dating agencies leave one conjuring several reasons for it even when you try to appreciate the poverty that is widespread.

Aren’t there any black men and women willing and able to step in as a donor soulmates? Don’t the natives trust their own anymore? Why is there such a belief that all whites are better off?
The quest for love is no doubt a fulfilment of human desires.

Yet man’s cunning nature often dictates that he does strange things in the name of love and end up butchering it at the altar of his or her personal desires.

The so-called lonely columns presents us with an explicit case of the exploitative nature of mankind under the duvet called love.

That prompted us to find out if there are white women out there willing to be exploited under the guise of love. None came galloping. The only SMS that came was from 0781 469 368 read: “Hi, I’m a visitor from South Africa and was reading your ad; I know you Ugandans go through a lot of painful situations, but I would suggest that you should not put it that way.”

We turned to the ads. Julie, 22, in her final year at Makerere University Business School wanted a white man, 26-60 for a serious relationship. When we asked her, she replied: “Why do you ask, I have already got him.

Do you have a girlfriend? If yes, the reason you have her is the same that made me need a white man.” When pressed on, she added that white men were more romantic.

Another slender, tall, 25-year-old girl wanted a stable white man from USA, UK, and Canada, 35-45. When called, she laughed and said it was her choice. “No, black men are not boring. I just don’t want them.” But did he have to be financially stable? “Yes, I want him to pay for my fees at Nkumba University. I lost my parents , so no one is caring for me.”

One Patrick said there was nothing wrong in expecting money from a lover. “I am offering my life. Can you ever compare material wealth with life?” As if the white woman was not going to offer her life as well.

So, we asked whether he could not get money from fellow black Africans. “Do they have the dollar? “Where are they? Show them to me.”

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