Thread by @MrErnestOwens

DaBaby is a multi-millionaire who can afford image consultants, PR reps, and crisis management professionals.

No, it was never the job of LGBTQIA people to "educate" him for free.

We are too busy fighting to survive in a world where his uneducated hate is costing us our lives.

Every time some public figure is humbled by their bigotry, they pull the "I didn't know" card.

Ignorance, if that's what you want to claim it as, has consequences.

Somehow, bigots realize they are uneducated when they start getting unpaid and unbooked.

Interesting...

This entire situation is rooted around capitalism and the power of cancel culture as a means of reinforcing public viewpoints.

No, you don't get to crack HIV/AIDS jokes/insults on stage and think that shit is okay. You don't get to double down three times on it either.

For those who want to act like DaBaby is experiencing this harsher because he's a Black man -- sure, and that's actually not the point.

Because what's really telling is how the disrespect towards Meg Thee Stallion, a Black women, continues to not be amplified.

So no, you don't get to try to act like DaBaby is facing some double standard based on race, when he leveraged his misogynoir against Meg Thee Stallion without much consequence.

Had he not said any of the homophobic comments, he would have gotten away with it -- sadly.

And yes, Black LGBTQIA people already know that these white gays who jumped in the conversation don't give a fuck about us either -- but clearly a lot of the Black hip-hop community don't either because they have tried to treat this like a "hot topic" rather than a hot mess.

It's hard living as a Black queer person and seeing other Black folks weaponize your racial identity against you as a way to gaslight you into tolerating their homophobia -- and then knowing white gay people will pounce on the shortcomings of cis-het Black people in "solidarity."

Do y'all really know how fucking hard it is to fight every damn day for two communities that continue to actively marginalize you?

Only Black & brown women can also feel that level of pain, even worse, if also LGBTQIA.

So please spare me these, "it's hard for a cis-het, rich Black man like DaBaby" who used what little privilege he had to taught Black women and Black LGBTQIA people on that stage.

These types of men are selfish, arrogant, and actively work against the rest of us. Fuck him.

Black queer people are always expected to just shut up and take it.

If we speak up about homophobia, we're "distracting" from the movement -- one that we helped build.

If we speak up against racism, we're being "divisive" to the larger community -- one that we helped build.

Today is James Baldwin's birthday and Black queer people are still being treated as second-class occupants in both of the communities we belong to.

Still being told to "educate" mothafuckas on how to get out of our damn way. Still being outcasted like it's 1959.

In closing, I just want this entire situation to serve as the final lesson, example, case study, and reminder to any cis-het person, regardless of race, to keep the LGBTQIA community out of your mouth.

And to those white LGBTQIA folks, save the virtue-signaling for someone else.

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