Homophobic editorial in Morehouse's student news paper

[davidinalameda]

http://www.themaroontiger.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=181:gerren-gaynor&catid=3:opinions&Itemid=4

the ignorance in this is amazing!

t’s no secret that the gay population on Morehouse's campus does not go unnoticed. Take a walk down Brown Street on a clear spring day, and one will quickly learn that Morehouse College is an institution unlike no other for reasons far more than the "Morehouse Mystique."

Although Dr. Franklin has urged men of Morehouse on various occasions to treat each other with the utmost respect (especially homosexual students), I notice the prevailing discomfort between our heterosexual students and their homosexual counterparts.

You know how it goes: a cluster of openly gay students walk by, and a group of heterosexual students suddenly stop what they’re doing to either avoid making any contact whatsoever, or look on with a sense of disgust. Or when class discussions happen to run on the topic of homosexuality, and that one openly homosexual student steps up to the plate to defend himself and his lifestyle. The silence in the classroom is one of much uneasiness for no one wants to counter-respond in fear of coming off too strong. Awkward?
I don’t want to get into the religious, scientific, or philosophical explanations and connotations of homosexuality; however I do find that this taboo subject merits great conversation.

This lovely man-producing institution, Morehouse College, contains many homosexual students, some openly and others not so much. Heterosexual students, through their unsettlement with this reality, tend to make gay slurs within the comfort of their friends, and homosexual students do whatever it is that they do behind close doors. That’s the reality.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Well, there's an education gone to waste

Traditionally, and I don't know why, the black community has been virulently homophobic. That's probably what accounts for the multitudes of man on the down-low, and why black heterosexual females are among those with the highest rates of HIV infection.

I don't get it. I know about it, but I just don't get it.

[Zuiderelle]

4. That's helpful.

:eyes:

[Ioo]

2. The most hateful part is the paragraph after you stopped...

"It’s not so much that “straight” men of Morehouse are uncomfortable with the gay lifestyle, but more so because it is constantly and quite robustly thrown in their face. Does being a gay man include adopting the traits of a woman? Because if that’s the case, there’s a more fitting school, and it’s called Spelman College."

[Bluenorthwest]

3. That is one of the most ingnorant, bigoted

and disgusting things I have ever read. He is so proud of his lack of knowlege and his prejudices. A full tilt bigot, and a stupid one at that.
A real mar on the Morehouse reputation. That sort of poison is not soon forgotten.