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A Response to Tracy Morgans & his followers
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Hey Necole!
I’d heard about Tracy’s little anti-gay jokes/rant and I just rolled my eyes at his ignorance, but when I read the comments from some of the people on your site, I just couldn’t believe what I saw. I wasn’t gonna say anything at first, but I have decided to speak up.
I’ll start by saying that I am a gay Black man. I’ve known it my entire life. I’m 22, but for 21 years I worked hard to force myself to be straight. I tried to pursue girls, I never dated any men, and I tried to act in a way that was acceptable by society, and especially in a way that was acceptable by the extremely homophobic Black community that I am a part of. I always felt defeated. I always felt lost. I could not be my true self. To all you people who are straight, imagine how you would feel if you felt that you could not be the person who you really are. It’s impossible to live a happy life if you have to be the way everyone wants you to be rather than just be yourself.
In general, not just within the Black community, people have a very stereotypical and ignorant view of gay people, especially gay men. They think we are all flamboyant, “Heeey gurl how you doin,” tossing glitter, lip gloss poppin and all that bullsh*t. Well yeah, there are quite a few gay men like that, but I am not one of them and I have never dated a man like that. Sure, I may have some tastes that could be considered feminine: I like reality shows, I never watch sports, I watch Bravo a lot and follow the Real Housewives of Atlanta. But guess what? Gay is an attraction to the same sex and that’s it. All that other stuff depends on a person’s personality not his/her sexual orientation. I am a man, but I just so happen to not be sexually attracted to women.
What has bothered me most about these comments is not the hate speech, not the disapproval of homosexuality, but the fact that so many people are so sure that homosexuality is a choice. People, I used to pray every night to be straight. I would’ve done anything to be straight and to be accepted and to be able to show off my beautiful wife and give my parents some wonderful grandchildren. But at 22, I finally accepted that that was not meant for me. I can’t deny who I am just to make society happy. At the end of the day, and this goes for straight and gay people, it is YOUR life. No one is going to be in that coffin when it’s all over but YOU. So you have to live for yourself and not for anyone else.
If you don’t agree with homosexuality, that’s cool. What am I gonna do about that? Beat you until you agree with it? Hell no. I just have to accept it and move on. Just how people need to accept that gay people exist and you also need to move the hell on. No matter how much discriminatory, hate-filled speech you spew out, there will still be millions of gays in this country. Nothing you say or do will ever stop people from being gay.
These comments provide an excellent explanation of why percentages of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are highest in the Black community. It’s usually black men like Tracy, the ones who use such harsh words to describe gay men and are frequent to very vocally and violently criticize homosexuals, who are the very men who go behind their wives or girlfriends’ backs to have secret sexual affairs with men. They go back to their wives and girlfriends after all these secret, unprotected affairs and infect them with STDs. And black women deserve so much better.
As a gay man, yes I know that homosexual sex is not “natural” but I also know that I wasn’t “privileged” enough to be born straight like you were. I wish I was but I simply was not and no matter how hard I try I can never change that.
You never have to agree with homosexuality if you don’t want to. But please, at least open your eyes and see that this is never going to go away.
If Tracy really felt that way, he doesn’t need to apologize. It’s okay to poke fun at gay people sometimes. I admit that a lot of gays need to grow a thicker skin, as I have been forced to do. But it’s encouraging hate and violence against a group of people that I will never approve of. That’s the **** that really has to stop.
You can choose not to support me. You can choose not to acknowledge me or disown me. You can disapprove of my life. I don’t have the slightest f*ck to give about that sh*t. Hold on; let me try to search for at least some type of f*ck to give……. Nope, couldn’t find one.
But you will respect my freedom.
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I feel it
an amazing piece!