Campus response to Pride
I reflect black to my first pride week on the spelman campus and one of the days I was wearing the Afrekete T-shirt. Afrekete being the only LGBTQ organization on the Spelman campus. A certain young lady approached me because she believed that despite the fact that I was wearing the t-shirt, I really didn’t know what it was all about and what it represented. In her mind she thought I was an ally and I experienced the most homophobic conversation I ever had. When I told her that I identified as lesbian she asked me one simple question that made me question everything I believed about Spelman College. She said, “If you are gay and all how does that make you a Spelman woman?”
A certain man of morehouse wrote an article in …show more content…
The introduction of Christianity to the African people has made them have a negative reaction to homosexuality mainly because of the Sodom and Gomora story. Some African countries passed bills in support of execution of homosexuals, most countries ruled homosexual marriages illegal and a few countries have accepted homosexuality. In the case of civil rights the heteronormativity culture presided over everything and the African American people had to subject themselves to the heterosexual culture. Russell mentioned that, “The civil rights ideology of the black middle class rose in tandem with a new racial liberalism among white elites that was born out of the discourse of ethnic and racial “tolerance” during World War II. This emergent ideology made explicit that the price of admission to American society for African Americans would be a surrender to heterosexual norms”, (Russell 113). Spelman Community gets most of its ideas from history ideology that includes African diaspora, slavery and the civil war hence spelman students has somewhat been subjected to also surrender to the same heterosexual norms and impose hostility towards black diversity and black
I reflect black to my first pride week on the spelman campus and one of the days I was wearing the Afrekete T-shirt. Afrekete being the only LGBTQ organization on the Spelman campus. A certain young lady approached me because she believed that despite the fact that I was wearing the t-shirt, I really didn’t know what it was all about and what it represented. In her mind she thought I was an ally and I experienced the most homophobic conversation I ever had. When I told her that I identified as lesbian she asked me one simple question that made me question everything I believed about Spelman College. She said, “If you are gay and all how does that make you a Spelman woman?”
A certain man of morehouse wrote an article in …show more content…
The introduction of Christianity to the African people has made them have a negative reaction to homosexuality mainly because of the Sodom and Gomora story. Some African countries passed bills in support of execution of homosexuals, most countries ruled homosexual marriages illegal and a few countries have accepted homosexuality. In the case of civil rights the heteronormativity culture presided over everything and the African American people had to subject themselves to the heterosexual culture. Russell mentioned that, “The civil rights ideology of the black middle class rose in tandem with a new racial liberalism among white elites that was born out of the discourse of ethnic and racial “tolerance” during World War II. This emergent ideology made explicit that the price of admission to American society for African Americans would be a surrender to heterosexual norms”, (Russell 113). Spelman Community gets most of its ideas from history ideology that includes African diaspora, slavery and the civil war hence spelman students has somewhat been subjected to also surrender to the same heterosexual norms and impose hostility towards black diversity and black