Hopefully, people who watched Bruce Jenner’s interview with Diane Sawyer and saw the Vanity Fair cover yesterday, will have a better understanding of not only what it means to be trans, but begin to address their own issues of bigotry and hate.
For better or worse, it took someone like Caitlyn, with all of her fame, money and access, to start this conversation when there have certainly been others before her. Others who weren’t embraced so warmly by the mainstream.
That’s the issue comedienne Tammy Peay wanted to discuss yesterday. Why some members of the Black community were so quick to embrace Caitlyn Jenner but have disassociated or completely disowned LGBT members in their own family.
See what she had to say.
First, she addressed the people, specifically people of color who took issue with Caitlyn and her transformation.
If none of y’all didn’t support that bitch, she could care less. She got a coin to change her whole identity, move to Thailand and marry a boy half her age. She really don’t need your fucking support.
I just want to talk to my people of color and to my people who have people in their families that have the same situation as Caitlyn Jenner. They might not be trans, they might just be gay. I don’t know what the situation is but I know that a lot of you people are throwing your kids in the street. Your kids are homeless. All a little boy got to do is show any signs of any effeminate behavior and you motherfuckers are rebuking them, and slapping oil on his head and laying out on the floor and beating him down, and busting his ass trying to make him a man, and you’re going to teach him… No, no, no.
Then she addressed the people who supported Caitlyn but can’t muster the same support and respect for LGBTQ people in our own community.
…So, all I’m saying to my friends is love your own, love your own. Caitlyn don’t need your support…whatever that bitch want, she got enough coin to do it. Let’s talk about you people’s kids who don’t have a place to sleep tonight, having survival sex to survive. Let’s talk about the kids that’s in the street begging. Let’s talk about the little LGBT kids that y’all throwing in the street cuz a person called me to discuss Caitlyn and her transformation and I’m like ‘Bitch, are you speaking to your nephew?’ Because she stopped speaking to her own nephew because he was LGBT but she’s so impressed with Caitlyn.
As people of color we need to start finding identification with our issues that affect our own community.
We have so much respect and identification for other people and their issues but none for our own. And please understand that I am taking nothing away from Caitlyn and her new bone structure cuz she’s sitting and sitting cute. But all I’m saying is what about Rhondesia on the corner, who’s struggling to have a place to live, do y’all have enough respect to respect her. Charity begins at home and then it spreads abroad.
