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onpatrol98

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5. Homophobic
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 02:20 PM
Feb 2012

I don't believe I am homophobic. But, some days after DU, I also wonder if I'm sane. I just think it should have been alright for a black woman in America to be buried by her mother and daughter without some (forgive me) white man deciding he's found a way to make a buck off her by digging into her past. So, maybe I'm racist. I don't want to be. For me, it doesn't have nearly as much to do with sexual orientation as it does with just being able to be black and die in peace in America.

Hopefully, I'm not homophobic and racist. I'd be just as mad if a black man, white female, or black female did it. Let these people bury their daughter and mother. Go make an honest living at a job. Not being a leech on society. I mean...when does it end. This extremely successful and talented black woman can't even be buried in peace.

After we die...haven't we given up enough, already. They won't let you live in peace and then they won't let you die in peace. What the heck is wrong with us? Why is her value to some on DU and Peter Tachell so tied into what she can do or mean for them, even as a dead black woman?

Does this mean, even in death, the world gets to use us?

I may need to grow out my afro again.





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