(This article has since been removed from the site, but not before I could quote it. Please read! It might have been removed because my letter to the editor or maybe it was in their own good conscience.)
Miami's weekly alternative NEW TIMES ran this article about Miami's annual "Black Beach" hip hop memorial day weekend and Sizzle. Just look at how this opening paragraph reads:
"Who says Memorial Day weekend in Miami has to be all about swaggering thugs? South Beach will transform into a gangsta’s paradise this weekend, complete with aspiring ballers leaning on every available inch of wall space along Washington Avenue, and thong-clad hoochies strutting down Collins Avenue. But the macho guys better make way. This weekend also belongs to Sizzle Miami, the biggest black gay event in the country."
I am so sick of this kind of language being thrown around. Why is it that every time black people are discussed in the media adjectives like thug, hoochies, and gangsta's are used? This is a horrible negative racial stereotype that while might be embraced by a select few, I don't think would be widely accepted by most of the black people who flock to Miami every year for this holiday weekend of fun and music in the sun. Then the article goes on to imply that somehow gay men can't be macho or that being macho is the opposite of being gay. Why don't you just call them fags while your at it? Don't you see how prejudicial all this language is? Shame on you for printing such vial mess. I guess you didn't say it is nappy headed hoe weekend, but you might as well have. Sorry to have to call you out, but it offends me.
For what it is worth I wrote this as a letter to the editor.
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