Black Men Heated that Obama Says Young Boys Need Gay Men in Their Lives

“That’s one of many issues that I feel — numerous the time — boys want. Not simply publicity to 1 dad — regardless of how good the dad is — he can’t be every little thing. That boy may have any person to offer the boy some perspective on the dad,” Obama, 63, started. “One of the crucial helpful issues I’ve discovered, as a [random pause] man, was I had a homosexual professor in school — at a time when brazenly homosexual of us nonetheless weren’t allowed — who grew to become one among my favourite professors, and was an ideal man and would name me out after I began saying stuff that was ignorant.” 

He continued: “You want that! To indicate empathy and kindness. And BTW, you want that particular person in your buddy group in order that in case you then have a boy whose homosexual, or non-binary, or what have you ever…they’ve any person that they’ll go, ‘Okay, I’m not alone on this.’”

Whereas some noticed the assertion as inclusive and forward-thinking, others are calling it a straight-up slap within the face to Black masculinity and fatherhood. Many questioned why Obama selected to raise queer mentorship as some type of correction to Black fatherhood. For sure, Black males sounded off, unapologetically. 

One TikTok person, Dr. Cassius V. Stuart, mentioned “Barack Hussein Obama is a shame to the Black race,” arguing that younger boys study empathy from their moms, and spoke towards an “agenda” he feels Obama seeks to push.