So I watched this video that Perez Hilton put up on Twitter and thought it was very interesting. It is a video of some urban black youth harassing a twenty to thirty-something white gay man.
watch the video:
I think the power differentials going on here are very interesting. Of course I am against hate speech towards the gays but I don't think that it is necessarily fair to show the youth in the video in this way. I am not going to write a whole heck of a lot about it here...I just don't have the energy, but I would hope that people wouldn't see this and automatically assume that all black people are like this and hate the gays because I just don't think that's true, especially because I saw so many queers of color at PRIDE in Denver this weekend. But I have a feeling that videos like this one are problematic in perpetuating racial and class stereotypes. But I do think the guy experiencing the harassment has at the very least waaaaaaay more patients and guts to stay quiet then say me. Non-confrontational has never been my style.
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