ankh-niggas-anonymous answered:

my take is simply that it’s fucking rough my dude.

last year i went to pride, and it was on the same day as odunde. And let me tell you i quickly hid my pride flags when i went to odunde and once i left i put them back on. I think its shitty that black lgbt peeps gotta hide it when they’re in their culture but also have to face racism in the lgbt community. It would make my day if black gays and lesbians could be intersectional without it being so damn hard on the black side of things. but black families are very conservative, especially religiously. Our culture is built on the beliefs of southern christians, with a black spin. That’s the facts. And if the republican party wasn’t so damn racist, there’d be a lot more black republicans.

my take is simply that basing any sort of prejudice off of some semi-translated verses often given without historical context is a cold take. especially when it’s the same practice that allowed people to wage religious wars and inquisitions and lets some whites believe they’re superior. the same outdated opinions that allow catholics to decide to not have any female priests. the ones that say you can sell off your daughters? picking and choosing what to take out of the bible is both ludicrous in some contexts and essential for every christian, because the bible is FULL of random laws given especially for the historical necessity of keeping jewish people safe and their culture intact. which is why there’s so many damn denominations.

i could probably talk forever about this, but tldr; intersectionality is important and its not just something white feminists don’t understand, it’s also something that the black community doesn’t seem to always grasp. There’s some understanding of being both black and a woman, but being black and a woman AND lgbt, or simply black and lgbt, doesn’t seem to be understood. (though it is used to make the One Diverse Character DOUBLE REPRESENTATION) I appreciate the fact that I can join a lot of discord groups that are for and by black lgbt, but we don’t have a lot of voices, even if we’re the loudest activists in every community. I wish it was easier.

sorry i hope that was …. comprehensible at all. i should have tried to answer this in the morning