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"A church sign in New York City’s Harlem is warning black women to be on the lookout for a “white homo” trying to steal their man. “Obama has released the homo demons on the black man. Look out black woman. A white homo may take your man,” reads the marquee for ATLAH World Church at Lenox and 123rd."
I find the sign to be deplorable so that's not why I'm posting this. I can't seem to find the NY Times story on this. I did a search on "Harlem" and another on "homo" (because it's the word on the sign). Nothing on NY Times website.
Is it because it didn't happen in The South, it happened in NYC or is it because the NY Times is afraid to take sides on a Black vs Gay issue?
"A church sign in New York City’s Harlem is warning black women to be on the lookout for a “white homo” trying to steal their man. “Obama has released the homo demons on the black man. Look out black woman. A white homo may take your man,” reads the marquee for ATLAH World Church at Lenox and 123rd."
I find the sign to be deplorable so that's not why I'm posting this. I can't seem to find the NY Times story on this. I did a search on "Harlem" and another on "homo" (because it's the word on the sign). Nothing on NY Times website.
Is it because it didn't happen in The South, it happened in NYC or is it because the NY Times is afraid to take sides on a Black vs Gay issue?
So if the New York Times had done a story on this, you would be satisfied?
Or would you start a thread asking 'why no outrage' from The Wall Street Journal, the Daily News, The New York Post, Newsday, The Korean Times, The Sing Tao Daily, the Staten Island Advance, etc?
It just strikes me as an odd pastime to find a story and then spend time seeing if a particular newspaper (which you obviously do not subscribe to) carried it.
I think black women have every reason to be concerned. There is already a very high number of black men who are incarcerated and when they leave prison they are often HIV infected and continue their practices of having sex with men, but they also have sex with women too. A lot of these guys knowingly pass on HIV to their wives and girlfriends. Surely this is a public health concern and yes, black women should be alert and aware.
According to the CDC, black men who engage in sex with other men, have the highest HIV rate in the country.
You know what would make this an interesting thread?
LauraC, contact the NYT ombudsman (called public editor) at the New York Times, ask your question, and report back. That is what the ombudsman is for. It would be interesting to hear what the response is.
I find the sign to be deplorable so that's not why I'm posting this. I can't seem to find the NY Times story on this. I did a search on "Harlem" and another on "homo" (because it's the word on the sign). Nothing on NY Times website.
Is it because it didn't happen in The South, it happened in NYC or is it because the NY Times is afraid to take sides on a Black vs Gay issue?
No, it's because Pastor James Manning is a wacko (and a birther, but that's redundant). He once held a "trial" of President Obama in the basement of his church, pronounced him guilty of all kinds of things, and then walked around the block of Columbia University in a long white robe, carrying a shepherd's hook, trailed by a dozen or so other birthers, all of them yelling, "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!" for an hour. This is not a joke. The man is seriously deranged. Do you think the New York Times should do stories on the garbage that every wacko in New York City spews?
There will never be a massive coalition amongst gays and blacks, because black people are not a monolithic group. There are some blacks who engage in homosexuality, some who are indifferent to it and many who do not agree with homosexuality because it goes against their morals and values. It is not the person, but their actions that many find problematic.
Although in polite company some will not state that they abhor homosexuality, behind closed doors, this is the case and many agree with the words of the pastor, so there will never be widespread outrage from blacks on this particular issue.
There will never be a massive coalition amongst gays and blacks, because black people are not a monolithic group. There are some blacks who engage in homosexuality, some who are indifferent to it and many who do not agree with homosexuality because it goes against their morals and values. It is not the person, but their actions that many find problematic.
Although in polite company some will not state that they abhor homosexuality, behind closed doors, this is the case and many agree with the words of the pastor, so there will never be widespread outrage from blacks on this particular issue.
um, why would black people as a whole have to answer for one idiot in the first place ?
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