Calling Bullshit On All the Political Correctness [View All]

[RetiredTrotskyite]

I regularly check Waynebesen.com and the shitstorm over Ms Cannick's remarks and the general phenomenon of a 70% black vote in favour of Prop H8 is still very much alive. I am just SO sick and tired of political correctbess: This is a link to the particular thread:

http://www.waynebesen.com/2008/11/attend-this-event-if-you-live-in-la.html#comments

and here is my reply to the thread comments (subsequent corrections mine):

Chris, I am with you. The political correctness bullshit has long bugged me. The black community seems to be sacrosanct when it comes to criticism. Say ANYTHING critical and you are IMMEDIATELY labeled "racist".

Black culture is to a large extent ANTI-GAY. If any performer used the n-word in a song, he would be taken to task, roundly criticised and rightly so. But let a rapper use the word "faggot" and, hey, "he's just expressing his opinion."

Wake up! The black community is anti-gay. They showed it on November 4th. They voted to take a civil right away. Had the whites voted to take away their civil rights, there would have been riots in California--and I can't say I would have blamed the black community at all. Civil rights are civil rights and not subject to the votes of the electorate.

However, when we just pointed out the overwhelming percentage of the black vote on Prop H8, people began screaming "racist"!

I am sick to death of everything in the way of criticism and analysis being called "racist". It is ridiculous and tiresome.

Racist is when people deny you housing or jobs, or even your right to live because of the colour of your skin. But the black community appears to be so thin-skinned that even a reference to the 70% black vote IN FAVOUR of Prop H8 is being called racist.

I want to know WHY it is perfectly OK for rappers and others to call us "faggots" and other perjoratives and in some cases, call for our extermination, but it is NOT OK for gay people to analyze and criticise a vote that took away our civil right.

People like Ms Cannick need to STFU and do the work of educating the black community.
posted by Blogger Merlyn, at 11/23/2008 11:35 AM