Look there's definitely a double standard when it comes to criticising homophobia in hip hop and black culture but there's a reason. Part of it is certainly white people being afraid of calling out black people but just imagine the form it would take if white people as a whole did make it an issue to "re-educate" black people. I think instinctually white people, whether they are conscious of it or not, know it would just become a racist cultural pogrom against black people and so they just steer away from that to avoid a situation with no win state.
Is it perfect? No. But the reality of race relations means that it is what it is. And it's not like black people are dumb savages who aren't culturally advancing cause black people are incapable of seeing humanity in gay people. Just like plenty of conservative white people are better about this now than they were in the past.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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