tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post9074856806857665551..comments2024-03-28T08:03:32.297-07:00Comments on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: From 'outside agitators' to 'wealthy gay activists' - Some of us black folks haven't learned a thingBlackTsunamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02349560427762283170noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-46488451434809527182009-09-14T19:05:14.875-07:002009-09-14T19:05:14.875-07:00This all is quite depressing. I am studying LGBT S...This all is quite depressing. I am studying LGBT Studies in my second year in college and I am fascinated with the fine line tightrope that many African American homosexuals have to walk in order to find acceptance both in the gay world and in the black world. <br />I have always found it funny how African Americans, despite all we have been through can manage to be so closed minded. It is almost like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, we search for validation from dominant society and when they give us an identity we eat it up. We don't think about the fact that the identity we are taking up is one that is dictated by out antagonists. I feel like African Americans backing and recanting lines of heteronormativity from the bible is equivalent to how we also echoed lines of our own inferiority so many years ago. We accept what is acceptable by standards of society from society itself, nothing about our culture is truly organic. We are not so much afraid of the “white male homosexuality taking over our culture” as we are of dominant white culture placing anymore labels upon our culture that maybe connected with negative. <br />Thus I feel homophobia in African American society is a learned behavior that has been misconstrued to a point of ridiculousness. (Much like our theories of punishing our children with severe beatings, not “spankings”, beatings, continuing to jump the broom at weddings, and claiming soulfood as our cultural diet). We do it because deep down we too still yearn for acceptance. We want to reject all the parts of our culture that may make us any less beautiful. But as Langston Hughes said once in “Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”, “We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly, too ...If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either.” The only way to counteract the ugly behavior that we are seeing in the African American culture towards homosexuality is for those of us who are not jaded rise up and say we are not going to express ourselves with fear or shame. We will validate all parts of ourselves. Acceptance of even the things we do not understand and are weary of is the only way we will be able to accept ourselves as a whole. <br />So don’t be depressed by one of your brother’s ignorance. It is all just Uncle Tom syndrome deep down. Acknowledge and then educate.Clarissa H.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-66655580937883488402009-09-06T20:50:21.106-07:002009-09-06T20:50:21.106-07:00Well at least we now know what the KKK look like o...Well at least we now know what the KKK look like out from under those hoods and sheets. The Republican party!Jefferson1925https://www.blogger.com/profile/12391932598519471732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-84418148368753083422009-09-03T16:00:12.197-07:002009-09-03T16:00:12.197-07:00If it is any consolation to you, we here in DC hav...If it is any consolation to you, we here in DC have a gay rights movement that keeps getting stronger, and many of the leaders in our community are black. <br /><br />http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=where_blacks_lead_the_fight_for_gay_rightsBroadsnarkhttp://www.broadsnark.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-85378011843749168702009-09-03T10:06:02.732-07:002009-09-03T10:06:02.732-07:00Alvin, come out of your funk, do another pass over...Alvin, come out of your funk, do another pass over this article, and submit it to all DC and surrounding area newspapers for OpEd consideration.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04402472211772038145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-29979101944550942602009-09-03T09:57:04.323-07:002009-09-03T09:57:04.323-07:00I am very sorry you are feeling depressed by all t...I am very sorry you are feeling depressed by all this. It is frustrating to see people who should know better be prejudiced against the lgbt community. <br /><br />I have been delighted to find your blog and hope you keep writing. There is change and it will continue. There are 5 states now that allow same sex marriage. The number will continue to grow. Sometimes it is only in retrospect that you can see change and see what part you played in it. You are raising awareness through your blog. I encourage you to continue. You'll never know who's mind you may change.Kay & Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04244257765709660605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-54978586348069213642009-09-03T09:29:00.048-07:002009-09-03T09:29:00.048-07:00What amazes me is how selfish so many in society h...What amazes me is how selfish so many in society have become and also how quickly the "have-nots" become entrenched "haves". So many black leaders have been quoted basically saying that they fought long and hard for what the equality they have and we gays have not fought long enough or hard enough to have earned equality. When did equality become something ANYONE had to earn? When did equality cease to be a basic human right for ALL?<br /><br />My husband and I are in the process of adopting, and one of the long conversations we've had is about how so many children today have come to expect things instead of earning things. They expect to be given their first car, they expect lavish birthday parties every year, and how parents continue to up the ante. The kids who "have" all this so quickly look down on the ones who don't. Just like these childre, so many of these "leaders" like Harry Jackson have something their ancestors did not (equality) and they so quickly look down on those of us who don't have equality. They forget how few generations have passed since others like them did not "have"...and they become entrenched as one of the many "haves".<br /><br />It is all disgusting, but I hold to the hope that folks like you, who continue to point out how obvious the biases are, really do make a difference. And that the ever-increasing visibility is always a plus. The recent stumbles by NOM reinforce my hope that our side's attempts at full and honest disclosure WILL trump their side's attempts at lies, half-truths, and secrets.Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-48820891567095914472009-09-03T06:55:28.629-07:002009-09-03T06:55:28.629-07:00Let all remember the that we all are equal and the...Let all remember the that we all are equal and the same.<br /><br />That is why these bigots with black skin can behave like bigots with white skin.<br /><br />We talk about equality and how people are the same no matter what their skin color.<br /><br />This is just another example of that.<br /><br />Sick people everywhere fight for power and status by demeaning others.<br /><br />The recent flap over the Embassy Guards partying naked and hazing each other --- the Christianist go nuts over that .... but legally creating a sub-sect in the constituion for fellow citizens ... they are AOK with that.<br /><br />Dont give up .... just realize that all black people are not good and all gay people are not good.<br /><br />The reason is they are people - and all people are not good <br /><br />Secret - MOST people around the globe are not good - contrary to the myth. The minority is still a good size and there is some good in many to exploit for progress.<br /><br />One last thing - all the black people who were kept as slaves in America are long long dead. As are the whites who kept them.<br /><br />When you have Martin Luther King Jr's DAUGHTER fighting for the Straight Supremacy Movement --- you realize madness and the need to feel superior can pop up anywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-76367137978078235992009-09-02T15:19:13.304-07:002009-09-02T15:19:13.304-07:00It's not all African-Americans who are anti-ga...It's not all African-Americans who are anti-gay but the ones who are anti-gay are certainly loud.BlackTsunamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02349560427762283170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33855769.post-28932424415451207842009-09-02T10:00:43.189-07:002009-09-02T10:00:43.189-07:00I can't understand how a group of people who w...I can't understand how a group of people who were subjected to slavery and anti-miscegenation law based on the Bible would have the nerve to use that same book to deny civil rights to other people. What a bunch of hypocrites.Mykelbnoreply@blogger.com