WHAT TRACY MORGAN SHOULD'VE SAID...

A lot of people are not digging comedian and actor Tracy Morgan’s recent diss on the gay community and simply talking off the hook regarding homosexuality. Why? The man was expressing how he felt. And his feelings are a true reflection of that of a lot of the people in the Black community. That’s why New Birth Baptist Church, although undeniably wrapped up in the biggest homosexual and child molestation scandal of all time, still has members despite Eddie Long (the Predator) continuing as pastor. Moreover, when you have Creflo “Dollar Bill Y’All” backing Long and simply referring to this thing as a mere “accident,” it shows that the Black community, and especially the Black church has no tolerance for gay activity, even when children have been hurt. In the case of Long, the victims were dismissed with a few dollars that could never erase the pain of being assaulted by a man who is supposed to be a servant of the Most High.

But that’s not my point.

We tolerate what we want to. And in the Black community, we do have some trifling men. President Obama tried to address this issue a few years back and caught hell. It was Father’s day at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. He challenged brothers to step up and be a father to their children. His speech was refined and articulate. Howsonever, I could tell he was poised to put things differently. Something along the lines of, “get off your ass, pull up your pants, and dammit, stop blaming the ‘man’ for all your shit.” But he didn’t because he probably felt Sister Jenkins glaring at him from the second pew. Furthermore he knows good and hell well that the Black community apparently revels in tolerating bullshit. We allow our kids to get C’s and D’s, just to get by. We allow others to tease, taunt and bully our kids when they do well. We allow our kids to be obese by eating all kinds of crap at Church’s, the corner store, and the Chinese restaurant. We allow lil Kim ‘n em, the East Indians and er’body else to come into our neighborhoods, open up businesses where we spend millions of dollars and then they don’t invest in our community. Added to that, we allow those same shop owners to treat us like shit—i.e. outrageous prices, sub-par products, filthy establishments and assuming we are going to steal something the second we walk through the door.

But again, that’s not my point.

What Tracey Morgan should’ve said is, “If my son ever, ever, had babies all over the place that he couldn’t take care of, or refused to be a positive influence in his children’s lives, or walked around with his pants sagging, or had locks in his hair, but didn’t make them look half-way presentable, or signed a million dollar sports contract and then says he is superior to everyone, or fucked numerous women without a condom and all the while engaging in homosexual activity but without telling those women, or buys an expensive ass vehicle while still living at home, or simply acts like the world owes him something—I would stab him…”

It’s a run-on sentence, but it makes my point…

Axe.