Woman Of the Year...

Boy, do I feel a way this morning 😠. First let me say, everyone who knows me, knows by now that I am a PROUD member of the LBGTQI community. I always have been and always will be. Along with advocating for and promoting Black Consciousness I also advocate for LBGTQI rights, as well as the rights for the disabled. For no other reason than I AM all three categories, and all three categories fit under the minority umbrella.  I just needed to make that clear before I say what has me full of fury so early in the morning. Okay, so apparently Caitlyn, formerly known as Bruce, who I have totally and completely advocated for in the past, had a conversation with Ellen (who is completely my BAE in my mind). During that conversation Ellen asked him about his feelings, and where his mind was now that gay marriage is legal in all states. Now I'm assuming, that Ellen, like a reasonable human being, thought he was going to say something along the lines of "Wow, this is so great, completely over the moon for my community" or at least some smiling variation of that. Unfortunately though, Ellen and I were both dead WRONG. This fool said something along the lines of " I feel like men should marry women and women should marry men, no offense to the gay community but I just believe in traditional values". I'm paraphrasing obviously, but the traditional values part I took directly from Jenner's mouth. Point number one, correct  me if I'm wrong, but there is nothing traditional about being in the LBGTQI  community. That's why we've had to jump through all these hurdles to get a piece of equality now. Secondly, how dare you Caitlyn! Show up to NYC's Pride and party like you're family but you don't even really support what we were advocating for. I have some straight as an arrow friends that would slap dogshit out of you for the fuckery you had the nerve to say out loud. Ellen even said in her own interview that she could sense the homophia Caitlyn had while sitting on her damn couch.  Like really? For real? LASTLY, and this is the part that I know everyone's going to dread, and everyone's going to have a fit about but it's MY opinion and I'm entitled. In my humble opinion, this is just another example of white privilege.  No,  I'm not being too righteous, just hear me out. Before I blogged about this, I wrote a status on Facebook  basically saying being transgender and homophobic does not mesh well. I actually wrote "BITCH WHERE?" but that's neither here nor there. I went on to comment underneath my own post and tag my equally black concious sister-friend to share and explain why this is yet another blinding example of white privilege at the forefront. I wrote;

"THIS RIGHT HERE, IS WHITE PRIVLEGE YOU KNOW WHY?
BECAUSE ONLY A WHITE MAN CAN LIVE HIS WHOLE LIFE AS A MAN GET RICH  BECOME A WOMEN GET A T.V. SHOW TALK TO ELLEN AND SAY "I JUST  FEEL LIKE  ONLY MEN AND WOMEN SHOULD BE MARRIED BECAUSE IM TRADITIONAL THAT WAY"

IF LAVERNE WENT ON ELLEN AND SAID THIS BULLSHIT SHE WOULD BE SHUNNED BY THE LBGTQI COMMUNITY AND KILLED LIKE MOST BLACK TRANSGENDER WOMEN ARE THESE DAYS NOT OUT HERE GETTING WOMAN OF THE YEAR WHEN YOU AINT EVEN BEEN SHOOTING IN THE GYM FOR A FULL 365...

SMMFH."

Ganted there was a truck load of the ebonics in there, but I think most of you can get the gist. It's not even like I'm hellbent I'm making it a 'race thing' (whatever the hell THAT means) . It's just that I don't have to MAKE anything because it already IS. No way in HELL Laverne Cox could get away with saying something like that. Not while still having supporters, still being rich, still making money, still being on TV. Not even a little bit, her whole life would be over. I'm not even going to touch the fact that Caitlyn hasn't even been a woman for a full year before accepting an award for the upstanding version of that very thing. There is nothing, I repeat, NOTHING upstanding about a person, I don't care WHAT they choose to identify as, who plays the ROLE of being apart of our community.  To rapidly gain supporters, advocators (like I once was)  and a judgement free zone, only to CLEARLY SHOW they don't care about anyone but themselves. Whoever that may be. People like that deserved to be exiled from the radar. Quick, fast and in a hurry.