You can't have your cake and eat it too. Uganda has a relatively positive relationship with the US even acting as allies during the war on terror, in the region they are 8th most in the amount of foreign aid, and we practically subsidize their trade deals by building export infrastructure through AGOA. Uganda accepts these deals, knowing full well that we expect a certain human rights record from the vast majority of countries we do business with, save for a handful of exceptions like Israel and Saudi Arabia and even then there is legislation brought forward by progressives to sanction these countries. I'd consider myself a Pan-Africanist, and that doesn't mean supporting oppressive African governments in the name of 'self-determination', gay/lesbian Africans are still African and deserve the basic human right of not being jailed for identifying as such. Remember, they aren't owed a relationship with the US, if they are truly a self-determined sovereign nation they can pass that bill, tell the US to fukk off and seek aid/trade from China or Russia, my tax dollars and I want no part of it. Though I imagine they'd have a lot less leverage over China/Russia without using the competition of the US as a bargaining chip.
But Uganda has its own government, just because there is a relationship doesn't mean there has to be complete agreement, forget what you think about what they
should do because of trade deals.
It doesn't matter what your tax dollars do when
you are not in control of their government or this one. You are not a Ugandan national in political power to do anything about Uganda's decision on this, and your Pan-Africanism is not changing that. We all pay taxes, but that exchange is a one and done every tax season, every transaction. It's factored in cost, it's mandated by law on a federal level and a majority of state levels. When you consume you render unto Caesar. You aren't going to stop paying or filing taxes or refuse to buy anything with sales tax because Uganda is doing this.
Drop it, what you are going to do thousands of miles away from Uganda is be outraged because the United States' federal foreign relations with Uganda is funded by the money levied from everybody's taxes. You alone are outnumbered. Black people and Africans in the United States are outnumbered, so before any talk about Pan-Africanism and what a sovereign African nation - on African soil - can do, Africans and black people need to figure out what they are going to do here, outside of Africa.
It's more important things for us to address here than worrying about the moral decisions of African nations. Save that for if we get there, brother. It's plenty of gay black people here that need to feel like they have a place within our black community to contribute to fixing what the United States government did to the black community, which affects Africans and West Indians. Your Pan-Africanism is putting the cart before the horse.
Unless you're going to renounce your citizenship and go to Uganda and do something about this...?