I don’t intend to be long with this blog, but I want to address a few things as it formally concerns Black holidays and Movements. Some may consider me a race-baiter, but when you constantly have to deal with racism, any conversation about racism can put you in this category. The truth is, I am a truthteller, and some folks aren’t ready for it or don’t want the responsibility that comes with dealing with it. Now to the heart of this blog, I am tired of the LGBTQ community hijacking our holidays and Movements with their agenda and Black people being complicit. Some will say that the LGBTQ is comprised of all races. And I say, just like the feminist movement, it’s a White person movement, they who write the agenda claim all rights.
Before detailing the nonstop hijacking of Black holidays and movements, I will review some other holidays and movements that get to observe, celebrate, and assemble in peace. Mental Health Awareness Month and Lupus Awareness Month are both in May, and you will never see them co-campaign, and you know why? Their causes are not aligned. Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month is in April, the same month as Autism Awareness Month. Again, we see no co-campaigning because there is zero alignment between the two causes.
When the Black Lives Matter Movement came on the scene, a distinctive clinched Black fist was recognizable to those for and against the movement. The BLM movement received overwhelming support from Whites from the left. We should have known this would come at a cost. Fast-forward, the fist changed colors and was colored like a pack of original Skittles. The rainbow had taken over. I saw rainbow-colored BLM fists with LGBTQ written on shirts, signs, and handouts.
The BLM’s objective is to eradicate White Supremacy and end violence inflicted on Blacks by authority figures and vigilantes like George Zimmerman. BLM’s mission is clear and has nothing to do with the Plight of the LGBTQ community, whose mission is unclear because it appears to be constantly evolving. Without a clear explanation, they can add a new letter to the acronym, and you won’t know until you have offended someone from that group. Nevertheless, there are no commonalities that suggest these movements should unite.
Uniting with any movement is a disservice to Blacks. Only nonBlacks benefit from joining Black people because their causes will take center stage. We have fought harder and longer and have earned our moment in the sun. LGBTQ is trending, and you see the acronym in its many variations everywhere. BLM is practically dead and, in some areas, is not far from a cliche, and I don’t see the LGBTQ community trying to revive it.
There are so many flaws with conjoining these two movements that I will be unable to list them all in this piece, but I will clarify a few things. Since when were heterosexuals the only racists? How does being gay, transgender, or anything else exclude a White person from benefiting from unearned privilege? When has being gay become more of a societal threat than being a brown-dark-skinned Black man? You guys wanted to use us, bamboozle us to further your agenda as Black people continue to make little to no progress. We were used for our reach to the Black audience.
LGBTQ merchandise is used everywhere and is still selling where you darn near must attend an HBCU homecoming to see a bunch of people wearing BLM shirts. The worst part of it all is that many Black people were complicit. So many Blacks are always complicit and fall for it every time. This foolish belief that an individual’s sexuality dictates their moral fiber and centuries of conditioning is ridiculous. Believing that homosexuals love us more than heterosexuals is ridiculous. So, you were racist until you came out of the closet? Were you born again?
Some members of the LGBTQ have no interest in having kids, no interest in getting married, and their only concern is acceptance. Somes’s only desire is to be included as part of the in-crowd. What happens if they achieve that acceptance, and how does that help Black people? Going back to what I stated earlier, the objectives of LGBTQ are not clearly defined. There are so many agendas that sometimes clash with one another. Caitlin Jenner thinks sports should be determined by biology and not identity, which angered some people. When talking to people from the community, you sense there is a divide between what’s shown on television and real life.
We are in June, a big month for the LGBTQ community, and has a historic day for foundational Black Americans (FBA), Juneteenth. After 400 years of slavery, our people were finally free, and recently we got to have this acknowledged as a national holiday. Then as I am driving home past a large institution known for racial inequality, it has been in the news for mistreating its Black students, and its faculty wants to acknowledge Juneteenth. They had a massive Juneteenth sign in rainbow colors. I almost turned the car over. It is not bad enough that anything they do for Black people is for political gain or to superficially right some wrong.
What the hell does freeing the enslaved Black people got to do with Pride month? We can’t have one day, just one day. And you know whose idea it was to put that colossal banner up. They do not allow Blacks to make those kinds of decisions. More than likely, whoever is ahead of the on-campus LGBTQ organization thought combining the pride month and Juneteenth was an excellent idea. Cultured Black people don’t move like this, but the problem I have with Black people close to the situation is watching them do it.
They likely assume it is harmless or there is nothing they can do about it. Many are afraid of the LGBTQ community because they get people canceled who don’t choose their words wisely. Most movements fighting for equality move on from the area where a small battle is won; they then look for a subsequent fire to put out. Not the LGBTQ movement; they want equality and forced acceptance. Not only will you honor my status as a trans-male, but you are also to believe as I do that I was born in the wrong body.
Black people were never preoccupied with forced acceptance. It could be that we never thought of it or knew it wasn’t likely to happen. We didn’t say you would hire me and be glad you did. We knew as we worked our shift that we were still considered an underserving nigga, then 12 o clock hits, and we are like, welp, it’s time for lunch. We grab our bag and head to the break room. The forced acceptance is already a headache and an impediment to the rights of others, hijacking our holidays and movements is where we must draw the line. Juneteenth is about freedom and liberation, but what good is it if we find other ways to give it away. Wake up, Black folk! We don’t have any friends in this game. The little we have can be gone, especially if you live life like a bystander, always leaving the fight to somebody else.
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