Things I have learned from the Barack Obama/Donnie McClurkin controversy
How is this for a wild juxtaposition:
Rod McCullom (thank you Pam Spaulding) is noticing that the African-American media have been conveniently silent about the Obama/McClurkin controversy:
The black non-response is to be expected, given the hisoric black church's uneasy relationship with the many black gays who pack the church choirs on Sunday mornings. "I long for the day when blacks gays and lesbians stop supporting their music," Darian Aaron writes in his post on the McClurkin backlash. Aaron is a young black gay activist, blogger, and contributor to Clik, and also grew up in the Pentecosal Church. "And find the courage to walk out of the churches that turn a house of prayer into a house of pain." It's a good that chuches such as Kendal Brown's Church of the Open Door and Kevin E. Taylor's Unity Fellowship Church have welcomed black gay men and lesbians.
At the same time, a gay man posting on a blog site (which shall remain nameless) took it upon himself to call black people in general "un-intellectual" as well as "uneducated, unrestrained homophobes."
Dealing with homophobic black people and racist gay people is standard occupation when you have an identity in both communities.
But we should learn from the Obama/McClurkin mess. I know I have:
4. Senator Obama's people are either very stupid (or very shrewd).
3. "I was misquoted" is becoming a more popular excuse than "we were just following orders."
2. I love my black ministers but some of them have a habit of saying stupid shit (this point is further illustrated by the comment of Pastor Gregory Daniels featured in the template under my profile).
1. Donnie McClurkin is a stone cold liar.
I thought that comment at Wayne's website was also eyebrow-raising, and I knew he was going to get called out on it. It's not just one particular race that's uneducated and stupid when it comes to gays. It's ALL of them! LOL
ReplyDeleteAnd why is Donnie backpedaling on the things he's said now? Is it because he thought his retarded remarks would remain secret in the 700 Club crowd? Maybe he's now flailing because EVERYONE is finding out how kooky he is.
i was surprised when i read it.
ReplyDeletebut about mcclurkin, i think he got caught up in his ego when he was on the 700 Club.
The Winans sisters did the same thing after their little song controversy. They were talking about how homosexuality was an "evil spirit" and they were going to do battle with it.
I remember when the Winans sisters (Angie and Debbie I think) recorded that song a decade ago, and the whole controversy was on the news. Of course they were yapping the tired "love the sin, hate the sinner" thing. Zzzzz.
ReplyDeleteWhat struck me funny was I thought those two were lesbians by their "image" LOL