houseb4titties Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 I got this email a few days ago. I'm still not sure how to respond to it, nor am I sure about what the nature is of the person who sent it to me.THE HOUSE AGENDAHomophobic Blacks Dance to the Sounds of Gay Sexby Charles MudedeWhen the former president of Zimbabwe, Caanan Banana, was tried andconvicted for sodomy in the late '90s, most Africans believed that hisadvanced Western education (he was a learned theologian) induced hisabnormal desires for men. Excessive exposure to Western culture had turned aonce normal African man with a standard sexual appetite into a Europeanlibertine with an appetite for the bizarre gay sex. This is how homosexuality isrepresented in Africa's popular imagination: It is theultimate sign of white culture, the final product of democratic freedom.White culture is corrupt, exemplifying nothing less than the fruit ofknowledge that awakens the innocent mind to evil delights, unearthlypleasures. Too much white knowledge will dislocate the African man from whatDisney's Lion King describes as "the cycle of life." Indeed, while the West hasblamed African promiscuity for AIDS, Africans have always accusedWestern decadence for bringing the deadly disease to Africa.Black America also makes similar connections between white decadence/gaylifestyle and corruption. In a class I taught many years ago at SeattleCentral Community College, a black student had no problem linking J. EdgarHoover's purported homosexuality with the fact that he was, one, white, andtwo, morally bankrupt. To find the most hysterical expression of thisattitude (white culture = decadence = homosexuality) in black America, youonly have to read the once popular book Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver,which argues that "Negro homosexuals" were "touching their toes" for whitemen because their sense of masculinity had been corrupted by white culture.Whether in Africa or America, for blacks, homosexuality takes the form ofthe foreign, the rupture on the border of black culture that initiates thefall from grace. This perception not only locates black gay men asdysfunctional or sick (which is what black homophobia shares with whitehomophobia), but also as race traitors, sexual Uncle Toms who havesurrendered their black identity to European decadence.The upshot of this African and black American reading of black homosexuality isthat it imagines black gay sex as only one type of intercourse: a white manpenetrating a black man. Such inflexible and phallocentric attitudes(penetration = power, penetrated = powerlessness) are not only sexist, asMichele Wallace points out in Black Macho, but they also make black gay sexinvisible. In black culture, we can't imagine two black men having sex. Suchintercourse is invisible, incommunicable, obliterated by the image of an olderwhite master exacting pleasure from a prone young black slave.But despite the obscurity of black gay sex in black culture, the very soundof it exists on almost every dance floor in Africa. We have been dancing toblack gay sex for over 15 years. House music--with its hypnotic four-fourbeats, snappy snare, optimistic high hats, and driven bass loops--was bornin the early '80s in a Chicago club called the Warehouse. Invented by gayblack men to address and articulate their form of pleasure, house musicspread rapidly from the edges of black gay culture into general gay culture,then general black American culture, and finally into global culture.What cannot be said in words (black men having sex with each other) is feltin the moaning black vocals and bacchanalian thumping of house music. Themusic is erotic; erotic because it is body music. You "jack your body" tohouse music, unlike hiphop, which is head music and designed for "headnodding." Today, house rules South African popular music. Rejecting hiphopand its focus on the black male mind, South Africa turned to the black malebody of house music to form the very foundation of its postmillennial jivemusic.But the success of house music has produced an obvious contradiction inblack culture; we dance to black gay sex and yet refuse to recognize it.There are two ways to resolve this contradiction: One, we deem this musicdegenerate--in the way the Nazis called jazz music degenerate in the1930s--and ban it from all dance floors; or two, Africans give in and utterthe unutterable: Black men have sex with black men because that is part ofblack culture. One way will lead us out of the dance club, the other willkeep the party going.Charles Mudede is a heterosexual and has two kids to prove it.errr...houseb4dick? My only question is, house music is black gay sex?Opinions?? That is the whole article but I will forward the email to you all who might want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strizide Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 Originally posted by houseb4titties errr...houseb4dick? My only question is, house music is black gay sex?Opinions?? That is the whole article but I will forward the email to you all who might want it. I guess thats the "point" he was trying make. Its more of a theory if you ask me. I don't really listen to enough house to say if he actually has a valid point or if I agree... Weird.: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuro Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 That's a fucking weird article. AS a black American I don't see "black gay sex as only one type of intercourse: a white man penetrating a black man". The guy assumes a lot of wacky thinking on the part of black people as a whole which I don't think is true. And even if house music was originally only the music of gay clubs, what does that have to do with anything now? The whole "house music is black gay sex" statement is funny, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houseb4titties Posted March 16 Author Report Share Posted March 16 The only part of it i can find some kind of ground on is the fact that house music was born out of disco out of black and hispanic clubs in Chicago and NY.Its weird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobeton Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 Charles Mudede has a very interesting perspective; on african american culture in general. try reading " hip hop and heidegger" sometime. although I find his writings ,rather interesting. I really think he, needs to ease up on the kuro > like the picture bro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuro Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 Originally posted by sobeton kuro > like the picture bro. Techno is white lesbian sex. I love techno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeydny Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 Originally posted by Kuro Techno is white lesbian sex. I love techno. Indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheendawg Posted March 21 Report Share Posted March 21 That dude is in the fuckin' closet. How else would he know so much about it and its origin? It doesn't matter, anyway. House music IS body music, and there's nothing like being at the club rolling balls all night then coming home and putting in an Erick Morillo CD (heh)! I'm not only speaking for myself when I say that it's plain ole SEX music for everyone. It's an eargasm. An aural massage, complemented by party favors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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