ALICIA BANKS

Radio Producer, Talk Show Host, DJ, Columnist

ELOQUENT FURY



REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN TRUTH

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A THANK YOU NOTE
TO
THE NAACP



Anyone who is remotely familiar with my radio or literary work knows that I loathe gaybashers, especially African and African-American ones.  It is patently offensive to me that those who are oppressed for their racial conditons of birth dare to abuse others for our sexual conditions of birth. I have absolutely no respect for hypocrites who are arrogant about their multifaceted ignorance about the science of sexuality or the ancient history of homosexuality in Africa. I loathe liars who pretend that anyone can be denied their heritage or divinity simply because some fool hates them. I curse all such fools at every opportunity, and I will continue to do so until I breathe my very last African, lesbian breath...

Just as passionately as I curse those who deserve curses, I also praise those who deserve to be praised. Thus, this column is written in praise of Kweisi Mfume and the NAACP. I praise Mfume for being  a beautiful, regal, courageous,  righteous, and inclusive Black leader. I write this to thank him for leading the NAACP righteously. Just as Comrade Huey B. Newton advised the Black Panther Party to include all revolutionary warriors, irrespective of sexuality. Just as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led many pseudo-christian, gaybashing civil rights leaders to allow homosexual warrior Bayard Rustin to  officially organize the 1963 March on Washington. Just as the heroic Dr. King refused to allow rabid gaybasher, COINTELPRO murderer, flaming, closeted  homosexual and FBI fascist J. Edgar Hoover to frighten or blackmail him into ending his beloved and platonic friendship with brother Rustin.

Essentially, I am a lesbian only when I am with my lover. Yet, I am an African woman 24 hours a day. However, I am not a tangerine. I cannot exist and rebel in sections. To paraphrase legendary, Black, lesbian poet Pat Parker, I can neither seek nor support a Revolution that does not liberate every oppressed portion of my entire being. As an African lesbian in a world that hates Blacks, women, and homosexuals, my life is a trilogy of terror. If I was not furious and full of fire, I would be dead. I am a survivor and a warrior, across oceans of time...

I thank the NAACP for embracing all human warriors as it defends the rights of all African-American humans. Recently, bible toting gaybashers in Miami-Dade county Florida have been on a homohating crusade. As usual, their bigoted and selective antics have generally been met with a collective and consenting silence. The NAACP has dared to loudly break that silence and challenge this divisive and hateful political foolishness. The NAACP has officially and fully supported a human rights ordinance that extends equal human rights to homosexuals in Miami-Dade county. {For this full story, see my favorite website:  www.keithboykin.com.}

Far beyond local politics in Florida, the NAACP has now gone on record to simply dare say that homosexuals are human citizens too. And, that we share the same human and civil rights to live, prosper, and be as legally secure as any other citizens. That is political sanity. In the national face of sexually bigoted madness, in every arena, legal and social equality is truly all that we have ever desired or requested.

Dear Mr. Mfume: Thank you my beautiful brother. I am proud to be your sister across all boundaries. Keep doing the right thing regally...Peace, AB


For more information, see additonal columns herein, including:

GAYBASHING KIN DISGRACES MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

PSEUDO-AFROCENTRICS: MY ONGOING INTRA-TRIBAL WARS

TOP 10 GAYBASHING MYTHS ABOUT THE BIBLE

ON WHITE SUPREMACY, BLACK SELF-HATRED, AND "SANKOFA"

SLIM CONSCIENCES AT A SHADY GRAMMY SHOW: ON EMINEM AND ELTON JOHN

ON GAYS IN AFRICA

THE SCIENCE OF SEXUALITY

AMADOU DIALLO SONGS: PIMPING PAST THE REVOLUTION


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