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Originally posted by KSigkid
I guess I didn't see where Sensuret was taking away from any of those aims. He said that he's gay; I don't recall him ever saying that Alpha should drop it's current work and focus on the sexuality issue. In my mind, all he did was disclose his own sexuality; he didn't try to further any agenda or push any mode of thought on anyone. It seems that he was in fact a very active brother who did some great things to raise Alpha's reputation at his school.
Wouldn't this be a situation where people should, as you said, put their "personalities on the back burner," accept that there are members who are homosexual, and move on to the issues that society is facing?
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My Phrat Sensuret did not post on the Alpha Ave just to promote his book because of his sexual preference... That, you are correct... Moreover, his sexuality has not and will never take away the aims of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
I think from what I understand is Sensuret is hurt because the of few most important things in his life, one becoming a member of Alpha, then having your own brothers "dismiss you" in your face, in public and private because of another important thing in his life, being a gay Black man, just happened so blantantly and disrespectfully toward him... He knows this... No one has to reiterate that...
But for him to all out avoid his "on line community" of his own fraternity publically like he did in Chit Chat in front of the mainstream community (called the "white community") is nothing more than seen as an "Uncle Tom" in most of the BGLO's... That the insults will continue to be hurled at him by African Americans the more he complains about being a Black gay man...
I don't know why it is so hard to express one's sexuality and sexual preferences in the African American community? Well, actually, I have some ideas that go beyond the scope of this post... But, as highly educated and being on the fast track with jobs and careers, the majority African Americans do not have the luxury to rest on their laurels when it comes to defeating racism... We are engrained to fight it as children with hardly any weapons... We are just told to go... And stand face to face, with much faith that it might change but very little hope that it will...
Let me ask you this, how do you defeat a innate hatred to segregate a whole community on the basis of skin color for over 300 years within 40 years of Civil Rights?
And now you want us to add sexism and ethnocentrism and all this other stuff, in what has been actively levied upon a group a people in America, lucky enough to have some sembelances knowing themselves from the past and then moving forward?