Anti-gay group sought to divide gays and blacks

[greenforest32]

This is news? The black population does not endorse homosexuality.

Interesting comment thread I read a while ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/q3ztt/a_maryland_republican_had_a_change_of_heart_after/c3uj0hp

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That's something that we don't hear get brought up very often. Whenever people talk about the religious right, most people are picturing white, conservative pastors. But the black community is also very religious.[/quote]

homeboy5925

Homophobia runs rampant in the black community, and as a black man, it's very depressing to see even among successful blacks. But the reasons for it run a little deeper than religion. I think a lot of black people use religious arguments against gay marriage, but that's not the reason the stigma is originally there. If you really want to figure out why blacks hate gays, you gotta trace it back to slavery.

Due to slavery, black people (men in particular) were emasculated beyond belief. Being told that you're a second rate citizen and not having the means to provide for your family took a toll on people's pride and manhood. When black men were lynched, it was sometimes custom for their penises to be cut off as a sign of emasculation. Blacks were referred to as "boy" by white people, implying that they weren't men. In order to compensate for this, black men have always been expected to be very "manly", and the gay stereotype is that gays are feminine, so an obvious clash presents itself.

This train of thought was subliminally passed down from generation to generation and has evolved over time. The best example I can make for that mindset being present now is gang culture. In gang culture, there's a huge emphasis on "being hard", or in other words, "not showing emotion." A good friend of mine was an ex-gang member out in cali. He was a huge alcoholic and whenever he would drink he would start pouring his guts out to us about all the horrible sh**t he saw in L.A. in the 90's. He was telling us a story about how his 15 year old brother got shot. You could tell he wanted to cry but this idea of "being hard" was so engrained into his mind that he literally could not cry and ended up punching a hole in our wall.

I attended Morehouse College in Atlanta for a few years. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's a Historically black, all male school. Martin Luther King went there, so did Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, Hermain Cain (we don't claim him lol), and a lot of other really successful people. One thing people don't know about the school though is that there is an extremely large gay population and this has caused rifts in the school over time. It even went so far to the point where the school edited the Dress Code to include the fact that men cannot wear dresses and heels to class (this was rare and not even a problem, but it was a statement by the school that they vehemently opposed flamboyant homosexuality). This is from one of the most esteemed black colleges in the nation.

It's a little deeper than "the bible"
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Racism and religion are true evils.