Archives for September 2016

Barack Obama Ain’t Shit…

September 29, 2016 by Angry Black HoeMo

How much longer until we, collectively realize this?

Obama’s anti-Black/Brown transgressions, virtually since day 1, have been well-documented, particularly in that he’s expanded the worst aspects the Bush Administration’s foreign policy, which has seen countless Black & Brown deaths, and has only sparked more terrorism in the Middle East and Africa. Granted, many democratic party loyalists (Black ones, especially) will rationalize this by saying Obama’s a figurehead with limited power in all of this (…although, at that point, I’d have to wonder why they’re not calling out Hillary Clinton’s direct involvement in all of those things as former Secretary of State, but I digress). [Read more…]

Lena Dunham: Another Reminder of Why We Need to Leave white People’s Fetishism Alone

September 3, 2016 by Angry Black HoeMo

Just a short, barely-coherent rant.

In light of the mess around Lena Dunham’s bullshit with O’Dell Beckham, and how it just reminds me that Black men should be leaving these white women (and gays) alone, it just makes me think back to the days I still carried an affinity for pasty dick…particularly the ones that fetishized being in a Black person.

…more so, the number of times I had my Blackness questioned, or was called things like “chocolate,” “Oreo,” “Hot Black ass”…and even a flat-out “nigga/nigger”…and worse, how, anytime I objected to them addressing me that way, they never accepted responsibility, apologized or even gave a hint that they would stop. They ALWAYS tried to turn it around on me and make me out to be the one with with problem.

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Young Thug, Gender Expression and Toxic Masculinity

September 2, 2016 by Angry Black HoeMo

Rapper Young Thug recently released a new mixtape, called My Name Is Jeffery. But what people are really talking about is the mixtape cover (pictured below). It’s drawn various reactions, many of which include people regarding it as brave, progressive and daring. Me, on the other hand? Not so much. There’s just a few things to consider.

First, he’s ultimately a cishet man, and publicly displaying themselves in a dress or other attire that’s considered feminine isn’t exactly new territory for them. As long as you go out of your way to ensure that you are, in fact, cisgender and heterosexual, you can safely throw on that dress and keep it pushing. In this existing environment, cishet men will always have more autonomy than Queer men to explore gender expression, and still maintain their safety. This is, of course, as long as they, in addition to going out of their way to assert their straightness, be sure to throw LGBTQ people under the bus, in the process (which even the beloved, late and great Prince is guilty of…just Google “Prince Homophobia”).

…which segues into the next point. [Read more…]