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Beaten for Being Gay in a Black Neighborhood
Frontpage Mag ^ | 09/19/13 | Colin Flaherty

Posted on 09/19/2013 8:33:08 AM PDT by Anila

Being gay is “about the worst thing you can be in black culture,” said Don Lemon, a gay, black news anchor at CNN.

Sometimes you see can see the antipathy in hip hop videos. Other times at the ballot box. Still other times black hostility towards gay people is expressed in the dozens and dozens of hyper-violent episodes of black mob violence against gay people. Some on video.

These crimes are a perfect storm of silence: Predators do not want to get caught. Victims do not want to identify themselves as gay. And newspapers loathe reporting black mob violence.

Two recent cases within a week this month in Cleveland are representative.

Jared Fox is a Brooklyn teacher who returned earlier this month to his native Cleveland to visit family and friends — and a gay bar called Cocktails Cleveland located in a black neighborhood.

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: antigay; violence
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To: Anila

My, my, liberal causes colliding yet again! Whomever shall the liberals side with? My guess is gay trumps black right now.


21 posted on 09/19/2013 9:20:01 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: Anila

Black people in this area have more sense than whites. Don Lemon is exaggerating.


22 posted on 09/19/2013 9:23:33 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Cowboy Bob

It comes from prison culture and the adoration of that by blacks through hip hop. Let’s be real ... blacks refuse to exercise discretion about where, when, how often or with whom they engage in sex. There’s even a phrase for gay or bisexual blacks who practice but aren’t out, they’re DL or “on the down low.” There’s plenty of black men seeking men, there’s just cultural hypocrisy and denial much like the black-on-black crime and devastating effects of their baby mamma/baby daddy culture. There’s no self-analysis going on in the black community, no desire to take on responsibility. They condition themselves to blame others through their media and self-affirmation of their own biases.


23 posted on 09/19/2013 9:24:36 AM PDT by newzjunkey (bah)
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To: Nea Wood
"My, my, liberal causes colliding yet again! Whomever shall the liberals side with? My guess is gay trumps black right now."

I would say you are correct. They know that blacks will always be chained to the oars of the S.S. Democrat, so liberals are currently focusing on gays, and Mexicans. The gays being the only group they truly wish to associate with.

24 posted on 09/19/2013 9:33:41 AM PDT by TruthBeforeAll
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To: Anila
Being gay is “about the worst thing you can be in black culture,” said Don Lemon, a gay, black news anchor at CNN.

Worse than turning in your neighborhood gang-banger de jour?

25 posted on 09/19/2013 9:41:12 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wonder how the media will cover such stories...

FWIW, Cleveland media is giving it A LOT of coverage. The bar is on Cleveland's west side, in an area near a "cut out" town that's always had some gay culture and been considered more trendy than Cleveland. That slice of Cleveland nearby has been diverse. The beat-down according to the news was by a gang of about twelve black teenagers. One was caught. The media are wondering why he wasn't jailed before this with all the crimes the kid has been involved in. It seems everyone was hoping the black gang problem would just go away on its own in that area.

Cleveland's trying to grow. Next year, the Gay Olympics are being hosted in Cleveland. The city is paranoid about anything that makes tourists uncomfortable in tourist-friendly sections of the city. A lot of the media exhibits the suburban attitude toward Cleveland. They publicize most of the stuff that affects people from outside the city.

26 posted on 09/19/2013 9:50:22 AM PDT by grania
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To: struggle

The style was really created by Stringbean Akeman. Very funny guy.

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27 posted on 09/19/2013 9:53:52 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Anila


28 posted on 09/19/2013 10:08:27 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you donÂ’t need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Anila
Hate crime and violence is all over the country.

What the multiculturalists have wrought.

People in mixed-race areas 'feel isolated'

29 posted on 09/19/2013 10:12:41 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: wny
I suppose it’s better than being beaten for being black in a gay neighborhood. then we’d have to deal with Al Sharpton

Stay outta creepy-ass cracka hoods.

30 posted on 09/19/2013 10:21:20 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Anila
Being gay is “about the worst thing you can be in black culture,” said Don Lemon, a gay, black news anchor at CNN. (...) a gay bar called Cocktails Cleveland located in a black neighborhood.

There's some logical disconnect going on here.

31 posted on 09/19/2013 11:00:38 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: Nea Wood

32 posted on 09/19/2013 2:58:12 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: Neidermeyer

Hottie at 2 o’clock.


33 posted on 09/19/2013 2:59:10 PM PDT by Dysart (Being nuts has its advantages...and the machete doesn't hurt, either.)
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To: Dysart

You and I would say that but Obunghole would not appreciate that she has the “wrong” equipment to satisfy him..


34 posted on 09/19/2013 3:04:33 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Homosexual behavior is widely accepted in Africa. That is why AIDS is so prevalent.


Actually, the prevalence of AIDS in Africa is because hetero transmission is so common (unheard of the in the first world.)

That’s because “conventional” STDs and open genital sores are common on men and women (even a badge of pride for men), and promiscuity/infidelity is common, and the virus gets emitted and absorbed via those sores.

I don’t know whether this fact advances any political agenda, but it happens to be true.


35 posted on 09/19/2013 3:58:31 PM PDT by Founding Nephew
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