The following "dissertations" are two letters I sent to Gay.com.
First Letter
It’s my understanding that "members of the gay community" had a problem with one of Eminem’s songs (I believe it was "Slim Shady") because he used the word faggot close to twenty times. It is also my understanding that, because of this, mtv just might stop playing the video. This may or may not be true, but if it is, it really stinks.
Now. I’m not even a fan of Eminem’s or mtv. It was around the time that he came out that I pretty much lost an interest in hip hop music. But think about this: Black women have, for years, complained because certain rap artists constantly referred to them as, yeah you know, "bitches and hos" in their songs. To this day they talk about Black women like they’re nothing, and if you’re a beautiful Black woman who’s an actress or an aspiring model, you can either be a piece of booty wiggling in a hip hop video, or just not work, because there’s nothing else for you to do. The question I want to ask is, do you think that mtv is going to stop playing any of these videos, or even consider it for a second? Probably not.
And yet gay people want to be put on the same level as Black people. They want to compare their struggle to the struggle of Black Americans. They want to liken the word "faggot" to the word "nigger". As if these two words could ever be compared. I couldn’t believe when Eminem was asked if he would ever use the word "nigger" in any of his songs. For Pete’s sakes he’s a WHITE BOY who grew up in a BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD and performs BLACK MUSIC. Now why would he use the word "nigger" at all? Homosexuality and race don’t belong in the same category. How could anybody put who they chose to have sex with on the same level as Black culture and Black history? Close to two hundred years of slavery, which involved the rape, torture, and genocide of thousands of innocent Black people? The creation of musical art forms, such as R&B and jazz, Black dance, and inventions like the elevator and the traffic light? Not to mention many, many other things that this country would be without if there had never been any Black Americans? Were gay people ever enslaved? Were they ever legally discriminated against? Do they get harrassed and beat up by cops on a regular basis? The word "nigger" has a cruel, malicious history behind it. The raping, the torturing, the mass murdering of Black people by White people. It has the power to make Black people angry, and the power to make White people ashamed, and to even make them hate themselves. The word "faggot" is used very casually, often times thrown at a man who’s not even gay – usually a young man – as an insult. "Punk faggot", "faggot punk", etc. You understand?
If gay people are really secure in their "gay pride", then why have they let this one little White boy piss them off them so much? If you’re so secure, then one little boy using the word "faggot" wouldn’t make you so angry. Would it? One fictional, made-up little White boy named "Slim Shady". I and other Black females like me got to the point where we stopped hurting and complaining a long time ago. We realized that we don’t have to take that crap literally because that’s just the way a lot of those ex-cons, ex-drug dealers, etc. talked when they were on the streets. We also realized that a lot of them, the really WEAK ONES WHO HAVE LESS MIKE SKILLS THAN WHITE BOY EMINEM WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT OUR WIGGLY BEHINDS.
We learned to live with the words "bitches and hos". You want to be put on our level, but you get all insecure and start slinging words like "homophobia" and "gay basher" whenever somebody uses the word "faggot". Is this because you’re really not proud of your sexuality?
I think whoever asked Eminem that question was trying to manipulate him by arousing in his conscience the guilt that a lot of White people (especially White men) feel when confronted with questions of that nature in order to make him feel guilty about the whole "homophobic" thing. And that to me is very sad.
Second Letter
I was surprised when I found out that gay people want to compare their struggle to the struggle of Black Americans. I was even more surprised when I found out that they want to compare their struggles to the struggles of Jewish Americans.
Jewish people have been hated since biblical times, and they’ve been struggling ever since. A little over fifty years ago, six million of them were killed in the Holocaust. In 1993 there were only three thousand Jewish people still in existence in Poland. To this day, after thousands of years, Jewish people are being hated and discriminated against, and ethnic cleansing is not a thing of the past. Homosexuality, during biblical times, was considered acceptable in ancient Italy and Greece. Words, phrases, and ideas such as "gay community", "gay pride", "homophobia", etc. are things that have only been in existence for maybe about thirty years. Why then do gay people think it’s okay to compare their struggle to the struggle of Jewish people? Again I ask, were gay people ever legally discriminated against? Was it ever legal or even acceptable to drag a gay person out somewhere and castrate him, lynch him, or murder him in some other way, as it was Blacks and Jews? Was there ever a gay holocaust? Of course not. Gay people have been struggling as a "community" for thirty years, and yet they think they can demand and expect the social equality, etc. that Black and Jewish Americans have struggled for for centuries, and continue to struggle for in this country.
The fact that gay people profess "gay pride" and have their own websites and organizations doesn’t give them the right to put themselves and their thirty-year struggle up there with the Holocaust, the genocide of six million innocent Jewish people.