At the end of the day, BLACK FOLKS…
They already have their minds made up about you. They don’t care about your education, your income, your house, your car, etc.
All they see is your Blackness.
So please spare the rest of us with the respectability politics!
We don't just "get to be more expressive" nigga some of us face VIOLENCE for being who we are. We EARNED this shit through blood. We choose to be authentic rather than fall in line with performative black masculinity predefined by a patriarchal society at a cost. Happy pride
No joke man. It’s depressing as fuck sometimes being Black in this country. It don’t fucking matter what we do it’ll never be okay for us to simply exist!
This belief that sexuality negatively affects a niche is a pattern I’ve noticed people have with several cultural phenomenon including with anime, furries, and other streaming genres in which there’s usually the instinct to insist that sexuality negatively harms public perception of the community and ultimately leads it into a worse state. But, as with furries and anime, they would go on to become much more popular, diverse, deep, and widely accepted by mainstream culture despite the insistence. Despite the instinct to not appear “weird”, there is a manga section in my book stores, and I see people with fake tails every once in a while in the street. In my opinion, overt sexuality is and has always been a factor that is universally present in most “niche” cultural phenomenon which is then, almost always, followed by mainstream respectability anyways. This is a symptom of an ongoing cultural process for many niches in my opinion, and is fine.