Best Posts in Thread: Black Homophobia - an Experiment. This is TOO Funny

If as a black man talking about homophobia that I experience at the hands of the black community, "what white people do" is not apart of the conversation. For me this deflection is beyond annoying as hell! Its as if to say because white people or other groups do it, lets talk about it as a whole society....NO. Let's stick to the subject and talk about it as it happens among black and brown folks. Tired of "what white folks do or don't do" being used as a benchmark.

 

Shit was awkward, but kinda funny. I'm not a fan of the whole narrative that "black people are so much more homophobic than everyone else." I don't think that's necessarily true. If you hang around mostly black people, you're gonna see more homophobic people who happen to be black. Even if you don't, if you look at the media, that's the image you're gonna see. Stuff like this video that try and make it seem like black people are unique in their homophobia. Go to a rural white town in the south or Midwest, you'll probably find toxic homophobia too. Go talk to recent black college millennials and you'll find folks who are more open-minded. There are different factors in play. Black people may say "ew" to your face. But everyone, mostly white people, will try to pass laws restricting your rights. Everyone's homophobic and I feel like folks try to make black people carry the full burden like we started that shit.

 

Homophobia is without a doubt more prevalent in the Black community. Especially when you look at it on the basis on the percentage of black people in the country.

The same argument made about police brutality, true white people face it too but black people are disproportionally affected by it. Same applies to homophobia.

You don't have to look any further than our media, athletics and our barbershops.

 

That choreography tho..



Lmao

And how a mofo who uses activator in 2015 gon try to have opinions?!

 

That some good shit right here....

 

The original post's video mentioned movies.

Remember last year when Dear White People was in theaters and many black people in the audiences lost their sh!t when the same sex kisses happened? Yet when there is a same sex kiss in predominantly white movies that are mostly attended by white people, the complaints are barely noticed. As unscientific as that is, it does appear that culturally, black people are proportionately more homophobic than other groups.

In the video I'd like to believe that some of the guys who walked off probably did so because they didn't want the other strangers to think they were gay too. Add in cameras and the way people love to make people "Gay by Association" if they were not in fact gay themselves, I can understand them wanting to leave. However I'm wondering if the extras were fewer or in one on one situations if they'd be more accepting. Cameras make people nervous because everything lives forever on the Internet.

Yusef Mack is another example. His circle was cool with him up to a point and he had to ask people why they were acting different towards him and it was all because they found out he was gay. There's plenty of people who have had sex on camera and you can best believe that wasn't the issue because had he been in a hetero porn scene, his "boys" would have been asking him how it was.

So, no, these are not studies with hard evidence but these situations and my experience lead me to believe that black people, for whatever reason(s), are more homophobic than other ethnic groups. If not, they are a lot expressive on the subject.

 

Um yes you can...who makes these rules up? We are and we do have separate communities all across the US. If I'm talking about the anti-homosexual sentiments I experienced in 8th grade by BLACK boys, "what white folks do" has nothing to do with this particular conversation. You are making a decision to add "well white people do it to" as a way to deflect and admonish responsibility and accountability from black people.

This is the exact same thing white folks and cop apologist do when talking about police killing a black person..."well what about black on black crime?" what about it? That has nothing to do with the conversation.

For ME it is foolish to say that different ethnicities don't have distinct and unique cultures. There is a post right now on the boards about men being "suspect". This term (along with DL) is unique to the black community as it relates to homosexuality. Stop Playing dude.

The interesting thing is...
There are numerous even hundreds or articles and videos of white people being homophobic or anti-homosexual...WHITE PEOPLE (the authors of articles and producers of the videos) don't say "well what about black on black homophobia?"

 

Check this out fellas. A comedian did a social experiment with "straight" men and decided to do a video. The guys are clueless and what ensues is FUNNY as hell. What do you think?