Frankie O

I'm hi and I'm bye, wait, I mean I'm straight

So unless you have no internet presence or no interest in hip-hop at all, you probably heard that Frank Ocean came out on his Tumblr last night.  He confessed that his first love was a guy, and gave us some insight into that situation...which if you've actually loved someone, you could probably empathize.  Because we're a largely homophobic and "masculine" culture, you can imagine how the hip-hop community as a whole reacted.  I will say that I saw a lot more people saying "who cares" or "great!  Hopefully he can be a beacon for other LGBTs in hip-hop" than I thought I would.  Honestly, for the most part, I didn't see the typical jokes and such that surrounded Omarion, for example, when he came out as bisexual.  This makes me happy as a progressive AND as a Black man.  The quicker we realize that sexual orientation is really one of the many things that we shouldn't GIVE ANY FUCKS about, the quicker we can move on to real shit that actually negatively affects our communities.  Sadly, there was still a substantial amount of "hate" (I'm hesitant to use this word; it's the internet, people talk shit just to talk shit) so I felt like I had to comment on it.

The shit is ridiculous.  I can go around and see niggas happily rapping along to niggas that you KNOW are frauds.  I know Rick Ross was a CO, but I don't give a fuck because he makes music that I enjoy.  I don't see niggas who listen to Ross saying "shit, I can't even listen to Ross now...he's talking about shit that he probably didn't do," yet half of the shit I read yesterday was "damn...I can't listen to *insert Frank Ocean song here* the same knowing that he was singing to a nigga."  My nigga.  You didn't think about him singing a guy all this time that he was singing shit and you were listening.  Now you hear he's gay and the only thing YOU can think about is that he's singing to a guy?  Yo...maybe YOU have some issues you've got to work out.  I've seen you niggas bump Beyonce and Rihanna and shit....what, do you imagine they're singing to or about you?  Just overall, the shit is annoying as hell.  You make no sense.

Personally?  I can't understand how a guy could be gay.  I'm of the belief that it's not a choice.  Why would you choose to do some shit that could alienate you from your family, friends, community, co-workers, etc.?  And then have to hide the shit until you're inevitably exposed?  In the immortal words of Rick Ross, "NO SIR!  NOT ME!"  Fuck that.  But...despite me not being of that inclination, I'm not going to sit here and say "oh now I can't even listen to his shit, he was probably thinking about a dick, ewwwwwwwww!" on some 2nd grade shit.  No one is saying you have to come out and be like "OMG Based Frank nut on my face!" or some shit like that...but you sound ignorant as fuck saying that you can't listen to a nigga because he's gay.  But...y'all go ahead and cook, I can assure you that the nigga doesn't care if you don't listen to his music anymore anyway, since more than likely you'd just download the shit illegally.

We have serious issues.

Fuck this dude b

Yo.  I know I listen to Odd Future, and I know Tyler makes Sandusky references often, but I don't find the Sandusky shit funny in any fucking way whatsoever.  I live in Pittsburgh, which, while not being the epicenter of Penn State's power base, is still in Pennsylvania.  There are thousands of Penn State graduates who live here, and the disconnect here is sickening.  When news of the scandal first broke, there were people in my office who genuinely defending this dude, Joe Paterno, and Penn State, as if the most horrific of crimes hadn't occurred there.

More Sandusky cover up shit.

The shit is disgusting.  In what world do we defend an organization that refused to treat allegations of child molestation seriously?  In what world do we place athletic achievement over morals?  Look, I'm not some soapbox motherfucker, but real shit, I went to an elementary school where the gym teacher was finally found out as a child molester.  When you're a child (well, back when I was a child), the shit looks a little weird when the teacher is touching the girl on the balance beam, but you don't really know if it's right or wrong.  The gym teacher was also gymnastics instructor (and fortunately for me, he had a spot for little white girls rather than little Black boys), so we will probably never know just how many girls he fucked around with.  If you have a younger sibling or a child, or a younger cousin, or anything similar, that should disgust you to your core.  Yo, kids are fucking bad nowadays.  I know kids at 9 who know more about sex than I did at 13.  Whenever I go back home (DC), I get flipped off and cursed out by 6 year old children.  Regardless of these facts, child molestation is not fucking cool b.  The fact that bloggers like me have to type shit like this because ADULTS are still refusing to acknowledge the shit as sickening is completely ridiculous.  I can look around and see people thoroughly pissed over abortion or gay people getting married, but THESE SAME PEOPLE will gloss over some shit like this.  WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH US?!

I'm an empathetic dude.  I don't rush to judgment on people who murder or rob because I can understand situations where you might feel that is your best or most attractive option.  I think drug dealers are the worst, but despite their negative way of affecting the community, I can understand what drives a person to pursue that lifestyle.  The child molestation shit is something I can't understand, explain away, justify, or defend.  If you are charged with helping raise the youth, and you do something that can scar them for life, not to mention the fact that you are taking advantage of the trust that parents (or guardians) have in you, you are the worst scum on the planet.  Some of these kids don't even have reliable parents at home (I attended a great elementary school, but there were still those kids with those problems) and people hope that those children can find adult guidance through other channels, whether it's after-school programs or extracurricular activities, or just at school itself.  Yet, instead of taking pride in your position, you choose to fuck these kids' lives up further?  Real talk, I don't wish ill on many people, but child molesters can burn until their nerves are almost burned off, then get sodomized with a fucking shovel.