A Different Kind of Black-on-Black Crime
I know some of you have recently shown me a full eclipse in light of the infrequent updates over the past few weeks. To that I say: Thank you for pushing me to blog regularly, but until I turn a profit from this thing some days won’t see any updates. Ya’ll trying to have me sell pills and parts.
And since [the man] took away my health insurance, I have to save. I’m driving a Camry, folks. I could be riding dirty so unless I take my brother’s advice and fake an accent in an emergency room, chances are I might need to worry about a potential bill.
That said, if you’re wondering what I’m doing in the meantime I’m still writing.
My most recent piece for AOL News deals with homophobia in Africa. A lot of our fellow black people are out there being persecuted among several nations. If they’re not being jailed for simply being who they are, they’re being slaughtered for it.
And indirectly, many Americans are helping facilitating this criminalization of homosexuality.
If you know you can’t stand gay people and don’t want to read this, no worries, I’ll be back to scolding Wacka Flocka’s English teacher in no time.
However, if you’re open to hearing a different perspective on the matter I invite you to read this piece. Then retweet, Facebook, and email it.
Click here to read it.
Thank you as always.
P.S. It’s OK to drop some coins in that donate button. Treat it like the tip jar at Magic City, please.
And I do have archives, which you should all read. You can tell how far I’ve come along as a writer. Uh, or not. Your call.
Now let me go back to scouting potential corners.
As a Jamaican lesbian this hits close to home. I commend you for addressing the hypocrisy of the US and so called “Christians” who by their silence condone the murder, imprisonment and discrimination of gays world-wide.
Great article! I hope others will get involved in this issue and realize that this is hate, pure and simple with no justification behind it.
And I do hope you keep writing. Its getting hard but you are truly talented. I hope you catch the break you deserve.
Interesting opinion piece. I must say,though,that the gay community needs to learn or review the history of the African and African-American man in Europe and the Americas during the time of slavery and colonialism. The Europeans and American transplants(white) did everything in their power to break black men down, strip them of their manhood-dehumanize them. This has gone on for centuries and while it’s not as overt,it still goes on covertly. Blacks in this country have not forgotten this and some in the community view the gay-rights movement here as another plan to further “feminize” black men. There is also a lot of underlying resentment of gay men and women who cruise OTDL,it’s viewed as an act of genocide against their own community. I think you’re going to have a very difficult time trying to convince the community at large to get on board with the African -cause,especially since you can’t get the US community to get with the gay American cause.
Cali, I alluded to that in the piece, but given the word limit I couldn’t expound on it but I will say this: The first Ugandan Saint was martyred by a gay pedophillic Ugandan ruler in the late 1800’s.
I hate to link pedophilia with homosexuality because that’s an age old stereotype, but the greater point would be that gays have always existed in Africa and everywhere else.
And the idea of the gay movement “feminizing” men is another trite stereotype. I understand the perception, but I still find it no less stupid.
I’m not asking anyone to start a gay rights movement in Africa. I’m simply suggesting so-called Christians don’t help push murder and this country doesn’t use its money to help facilitate it and other forms of bigotry. It’s the least both could do considering the damage they’ve collectively done.
Thank you all for reading and commenting. =)
great article! and we all wish that the US wouldn’t give aid to contries that kill wrongly…but that’s how this world works. just like when we were sending guns to the middle east and how we side with the jews instead of the muslims, everything is done with a motive.
i have a lot of gay friends and it’s truly sad that people just can’t get over other people being gay. i hate that bible bullshit cause i don’t know one gay person who would choose to be gay rather than str8 so they could live a normal life w/o being judged and harassed.
btw…michael i KNOW u not serious about donations? lmao! i love ur writing but there ain’t no way in hell i’m donating when my ass is struggling too! lol forreal though, keep writing…i know it isn’t costing u anything to keep this blog up…i think lol