Everyone seems to have an opinion on Frank Ocean's recent announcement. Well, Lil Scrappy's perspective seems to be the most intriguing response I've seen so far. Whether I agree or disagree is irrelevant, but I do think it's interesting. Hip Hop Wired reports:
Lil Scrappy decided to weigh in, by telling TMZ that
while he is happy that Ocean revealed his love for another man, he
blames "closeted" gay men for spreading AIDS. "I'm glad that he came out
... so all the real women that love to mess with real men, straight
men, we can keep the AIDS situation down, you feel me?"
Scrappy further inserted his foot into his mouth by calling homos-xuality the "doorway to AIDS."
For one, AIDS cannot be spread between two people.
The virus starts as HIV and turns into AIDS once the infected party's
t-cell count reaches a certain number, putting their immune system in
jeopardy, and making them susceptible to other diseases. Also, while
many straight Black men would like to blame the HIV/AIDS epidemic on men
on the "down low," the fact of the matter is that unprotected
intercourse (of all kinds) is at the root of the problem.
In 2009, NPR
ran a story discrediting the myth linking the epidemic in the Black
community to men who live double lives by sleeping with both men and
women. The radio outlet interviewed director of the National Center for
HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, Dr. Kevin Fenton,
who cleared up any leftover confusion. "It's critically important to
know that we're dealing with a very complex epidemic, certainly among
the Black community, and black women are bearing a disproportionate
burden of disease compared with their white or Hispanic counterparts,"
said Dr. Fenton. "It's also important to realize that about one in five
black women become infected because of injecting drugs, and about 80
percent of women acquire the infection through sexual transmission from
male partners who are HIV infected.
"Their male partners may become infected either through injecting
drugs themselves, through having multiple sexual partners or a smaller
proportion through male bisexual activity. So it's important to
understand the range of risk factors which occur in heterosexual
transmission of HIV in the United States."
Despite being less than 15 percent of the population, Black people
are leading the pack among all ethnicities infected with the virus. In
an attempt to put a dent in the staggering figures, the CDC is now
offering free-home testing kits, which were just approved by the FDA.
Charlamgne the God gives Scrappy the patented "Donkey of the Day"
Mysonne also calls Frank Ocean a "coward". Peep:
“i think these n*ggas is cowards that looking for exposure
and buzzes, so they wait til albums drop to tell you there true
Sexuality,’ he tweeted July 10.
“Never mind that youve built a career off of obvious deceit
and false hood, but people say its ok cuz he can sing. What happen to
integrity?”
“What happened to judging a man by his character. There are no more boundaries or rules and this is why Suckas can Rule!”
“the fact that he’s gay means nothing to me and had he been
real and i still liked his music i would support him, But fake sh*t is
fake sh*t!”
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