bruh, you smarter than this.
I know the idiots on this board aren't, but you are smarter than this.
If you see the trailer, and this dude is struggling with his sexuality and listens to his parents who tell hi one thing, but he feels something else, thats what Coates means. You all have to be critical thinkers.
have you read the-coli.com?
Pretty much like it was said in the TLR version of this thread. Any portrayal of masculinity that falls outside of the traditional tropes surrounding traditional masculinity is dismissed or, worse, seen as an assault on black male masculinity.
The above exchange regarding Malcolm X is a good example. According to some accounts, he was a gay-for-pay male escort during his younger years, and some biographers go further and claim he was bisexual. I don't know exactly how true that is (there is a possibility), but the question I ask (to myself and others) is simply - if he did engage in homosexual intercourse, and/or if he indeed was bisexual or LGBT in some other way, so what? Does it diminish what he accomplished and what he tried to further accomplish? Does it mean he was any less for black people? In my opinion, it absolutely does not. Malcolm's work stands the test of time, whether he was bi or not.
A lot of us are conditioned to view homosexuality negatively in any fashion. Because of this, the very idea that any one of our heroes could be homosexual in some way is offensive to many of us, and I think that is a big problem.
