Slander, Marginalization, and the Politics of Homophobia [by @NegreauxProblem]

The Black community lost its way. I said it. The Game was once so eloquently quoted saying, "faggots are not real men".  This is the culture that has defined masculinity and now it's up to us to redefine the norm and inspire an alternate reality.  How dare an entire generation of African Americans disenfranchise another minority group for being different.  Just 45+ years ago, that would have been us fighting for equality.

This post comes as a response to a video that emerged of two kappas getting married.

Black twitter, without missing a beat, imploded.

Why is homophobia such a taboo topic that inspires such negative emotion and attracts slander like no other within our community?

At the root of the Black community was the church.  Nowadays, it seems the church is less and less important to hold our community together so why are we still using biblical allegory to support rhetorical contradictions?   Today, Black men and women act as a catalyst to slander each other in a form of cultural cannibalism.  Dream Hampton says it best, "as a community, we must continue to press for a culture free of hypocrisy and condemnation".  Homophobia is a malignant cancer that can destroy an entire culture seeking to disenfranchise, dehumanize, and marginalize. Black men get married everyday.  This caught so much heat because of their Greek affiliation.  As a direct result, non-Greeks jumped into the slander pool with a skewed perception of Greek life.  Greek organizations are still community based and don't conduct intake based on a HATE for any group of people.  In that regard it seems we have all lost our way. In an effort to change our mantra, hopefully this post will incite a new trajectory in the discourse regarding homophobia, paraphobia, and xenophobia.

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Show Intro



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No shots at Wiz.

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