" I used to be scared to talk to a gay person." Perhaps not the greatest shock to learn this less than broad minded perspective emanates from the hip hop community. In a recent MTV interview, Kanye West points the finger at fellow rappers ( naming no names, presumably for fear of being peppered by the indiscriminate ammo from a Mach 10 ) and says his contemporaries worry what other people will think if they converse with a homosexual. In a piece of bar room philosophy almost akin to Socrates in its profundity, West denied that a person's dress sense betrays their sexuality, adding he is secure with his own orientation and happy to talk to gay people. How magnanimous !
West said: "In hip-hop, there's people - and let's not even say scared like homophobic - but they're scared of the way people gonna look at them." At the peak of his libertarian powers, our conciliatory friend declares he's happy to dress in an outlandish fashion and have conversations with people who he refers to as " blatantly gay ".
Now there's a category that councils will be latching onto. Degrees of gayness. " Please tick the box you consider most applies to yourself."
Are you (a) Secretly gay (b) Openly but subtly gay or (c) Blatantly gay ?
If only the world had more rappers.
