It’s anecdotal, there is no source but my point is that black folks ain’t gonna stop hating gay people anytime soon so we should focus on things we can actually do in the time we currently live in

Why y’all go off on Poignant like that?

A leader and the concept of one isn't going to work.

It's especially not going to work in the United States.

Idk about "bedwench" but I do agree with Joseph Beams critique of James Baldwin in saying he pandered to White folks.

A lot of these issues in "the Black community" (what does that even mean? Let's get specific? There's Black people everywhere, which community are we talking about) are side effects of colonialism. In the US and Americas specifically it's colonialism and slavery. Black men that are Afrodescendants are coming from a lineage of men that were denied manhood... And humanity. That's going to look nasty generations later especially in countries where they still live next door to their oppressors. Black women have the same capacity for homophobia it just manifests differently.

Some Sylvia Winter or Hartman will further discuss this. I really encourage everyone to read more works from these writers because they're addressing something we keep overlooking in talking about issues within "the Black community" for a long ass time "the Black community" weren't even human beings, humanity has not been a reality for niggas since the ARAB slave trade. So how do you learn that after centuries of exile from it. We live in a current society where people reaffirm their humanity by being antiblack.

Before colonialism, so on the continent which all our ancestors go back to, homophobia was not a thing. Neither was transphobia. This is even true for some European groups like the Vikings that believed all men had both a male & female spirit.

Look at the replies to this tweet lmao like come on. He told the truth.

I will not disagree there weren't times he hilariously came up short in terms of the type of characters he depicted like Joseph said about his male characters. And I do agree, he should've definitely been more feminist than he was. Even though, he's one of my favorite authors/writers ever, he aint perfect. I think that convo with Nikki Giovanni was one of the times I took an extreme exception to a lot of things that he said, even as I understood where he was coming from. And Audre Lorde was right.

That being said, I don't know if he was pandering to white folks as he was trying to pander himself to black men. Only cause he had way too much smoke for them white people when talking about them lol. He was "out" but he always brought up himself in interviews when talking about the black plight using hypotheticals like "my children and my wife" and it's like.....but bruh, we know how you roll tho, you don't gotta do that. If I remember correctly (cause I need to actually buy that black queer studies book that I read over the summer 2 years ago) McBride brought it up in his essay in there about him.

I think James was coming at it from a place that he only knew he could come from in his era. When you dealing with psycho ass abusive Eldrige pretty much insulting you in his book and questioning your manhood because you date white men/men, what choice did a James Baldwin have back then?

I agree at the end of the day all this s*** is a product of white people/colonialism. We didn't learn to abuse our own women out of nowhere. We didn't learn all this inner hatred of self out of nowhere.

But we do have to take it upon ourselves in this new generation where more of these marginalized groups within our community (I'd say African American, but hell we saw how they giving it up in South Africa last year. That's why I broaden the term "black community" cause really it's around the globe.)

It is an ugly thing that we still mentally in the chains of, but when do we stop that and start healing? Cause ultimately, we not gon' be free as a people unless we ALL are free as a people. Top down, no exceptions. If the marginalized of the marginalized win, then we all win.

Kirk real for that one.

Yoooooooo

Tell us a Black History nugget that someone put you onto this year. It can even be personal black history.

How can you heal when you're in a constant state of duress, it's not like it's stopped. Something would have to end for a state of healing to begin. That's the difference here when you start talking about community. South Africans know because they still see their colonizers on their lands. This isn't a Black country, the day to day dealings with these people exists and systemic Anti-Blackness is still persistent with other "POC" participating in it. Every single day.

Education is key, and that's why organizers do the work and make things accessible to the everyday person is who's important. Talking about the problem and the history of the problem is easy. all while being under a police state. I don't have the answer on a solution to snap my fingers and make intracommunal violence end, there's ways to reeducate people and make them more aware that can lead to such a thing in the future.

Otis McDonald, Fought Chicago’s Gun Ban.

It’s not something new but it’s recent in my sphere of black history.

you tell a white person something at work and they be like “10-4”

I wish people wouldn’t compare black liberation to other things

I like that. Thank you for the name. Gave me a black nugget of information. Are you Chicago local?

Us black folks got to remember that anyone except US aren’t on the same page as our agenda, Black gay people deserve to be in conversations but white gays only hinder us from achieving our goals JUST like white feminists

Too late for that they already infiltrated black movements to create further division

Sadly brother

Nah, Memphis Local.

never trust white people who use emojis that are three tones darker than them

No idea why this was in my recommendations, but I hate this narrative so much.

comments are on some other s*** tho

I see mfers in there sounding like Ben Shapiro "facts don't care about your feelings"

they're the same ones who get mad if you call them racist