Welcome to Retro Rewind, the TGJ original feature launched to take our readers on a journey to TV and Film’s past.
Today, we revisit one of Kanye West‘s earlier conversations with Sway Calloway.
In it, he revealed that he was bullied in school by peers who labelled him a f***** because of the way he walked and talk.
The impassioned rapper, now years removed from the trauma at that point, admitted that the accusations forced him to question his own masculinity and steer clear from anything he deemed to be effeminate.
Watch below…
If you see something and you don’t want to be that because there’s such a negative connotation toward it, you try to separate yourself from it so much. It made me homophobic by the time I was through high school.
Anybody that was gay I was like, ’Yo, get away from me.’ It’s like I was racing to try to find that constant masculine role model right there, right in front of me. I would use the word ’f–’ and always look down upon gays.
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Research Breaking the buck to understand why black men are so afraid of anything gay-related. It’s deeper than what people want to believe it is.
i do believe that is part of the problem but not the reason in its entirety. i also believe that homophobia comes from misogyny and the idea of a man being being wrong for wanting to emulate anything relating to femininity. breaking the buck definitely did speak on the fear but not the entire topic as homophobia isn’t only in black culture
She’s talkin about the black community though. Black men have been demasculinized since slavery. That’s why it’s such a big deal .
I miss the old Kanye
Everybody is curious in my eyes even females as quite as that’s kept. Why can’t we as humans just enjoy life and give and take excitement frm anyone who gonna give it. Now you raw dogs knowingly giving and take knowing that your status ain’t all the way healthy, those the ones I got a problem with. Other than that enjoy your freaking life. No one is A1 perfect. Look at the running nominees for president…… Think about it. No point for me to wait, why??? Great day
Your validation of me is not need. Proud of who and what I am. My black people use religion to justify homophobia, it doesn’t bother me one bit. There are thousands of religions on the world so who is to say one is right over the other? I say having respect for each other is a way to cure most of the world’s issues even if you don’t agree with them. Respect me and I’ll respect you. Insult me and I will drag that a** for life.
You aren’t black. So I honestly don’t even think that your opinion matters .
I’m not black? That’s news to my black ass.
Not religion primarily, because secularism is on the rise and more people are claiming some kind of abstract, non-specific ‘spirituality’ over religion. Some would reference the gay ‘agenda’ as some kind of social/political movememt to force black americans to help appropriate and assimilate a dominant or preferred subculture.
I think the mere notion of ‘homophobia’ is a flawed though. Most people don’t think about it critically. It’s a sound-bite word used to marginalize and silence those who don’t agree with it in any way. A phobia is an irrational fear of something. You cannot define someone as an intolerant, bigoted “homophobe” just because they don’t share your convictions. That’s not an argument, it’s childish, ad hominem name-calling.
This new “tolerance” has become intolerant. You can’t have it only on your terms. We need to define our terms properly, have empathy and be respectful, find common ground where possible, try to disagree amicably wherever possible.
Your whole logic is flawed. Respect and equality. An injustice somewhere is a threat to justice everywhere. That applies to everyone.
You just proved my point. My logic isn’t flawed just because you say so. You need reasons to back it up. There is always resistance before acceptance.
I’m not about to argue with you over this. You do you and I’ll do me. Respect me and I’ll respect you. Until we good.
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This is when kanye was bae☺??
Wow I see why he act different today world
RIP old Kanye