I'm so pleased to read this, because I happen to be in the middle of a debate on the Black Voices site over gay (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12958618/from/RL.1/) and transgender (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12961036/) boy who was kicked out of his school'd prom for wearing a gown. Many people are furious that this boy would be openly gay and cross dress, and are even more furious that his mother would fully support him rather than disown him. Of course many posters on the thread become violently angry whenever the subject of gays comes up and others give the popular "I'm okay with gays as long as they don't shove it in my face and violate my heterosexual relationships" line. (Violation includes gays cross dressing, kissing, hugging, holding hands, saying "I'm gay", etc.)
Homophobia is a huge problem among black people. Seriously, if you asked 30 black people to vote between reinstating slavery and allowing gay rights, at least 10 people would vote to reinstate slavery and at least 15 people would abstain on the grounds that they don't want to be slaves, but don't want gays to have rights.
When I tried to point out the double standard in them thumping the bible in a gay thread and then going into TomKat/Brangelina threads singing the praises of their out of wedlock babies or going into a celeb thread and posting things like "Why doesn't (s)he just be honest and come out of the closet?", or committing adultery/fornication, needless to say, it wasn't pretty.
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Date: 2006-06-01 10:39 pm (UTC)Homophobia is a huge problem among black people. Seriously, if you asked 30 black people to vote between reinstating slavery and allowing gay rights, at least 10 people would vote to reinstate slavery and at least 15 people would abstain on the grounds that they don't want to be slaves, but don't want gays to have rights.
When I tried to point out the double standard in them thumping the bible in a gay thread and then going into TomKat/Brangelina threads singing the praises of their out of wedlock babies or going into a celeb thread and posting things like "Why doesn't (s)he just be honest and come out of the closet?", or committing adultery/fornication, needless to say, it wasn't pretty.