Someone told me about a report on ABC News about the plight of black women trying to find men. I found it and watched it. It made me a little upset, considering the subject matter and some faults I saw with the participants and I was all ready to write something about it.

I came across an article on The Grio, which is black website hosted by NBC. There was a woman, a Dr. Boyce Watkins, who commented on the show. While I got a little hot under the collar within the first few sentences, by the time I hit the fourth paragraph I had to stop reading. Here is the paragraph in question:

We know the story: over 70% of all African-American women don't have husbands. That is a tragedy for the entire family, especially the children. The joint social trauma inflicted by a poor educational system, mass incarceration and massive unemployment among black men has come together to create an unsustainable set of social outcomes. That's not to mention the black men who've either chosen to date other men or can't see the beauty of black women when they know that Elin Nordegren might be available. Yes Houston, we have a problem.

What pissed me off was the statement she makes about black men who have CHOSEN to date other men. What is it about us heterosexuals who feel if no one can screw like we do it must be some bad choice on their part? I’m sorry to have to be so crass about it but I’ve seen too many statements like this in the past few weeks not to shove back.

Here’s a great little example of what I have seen. A few weeks ago a radio talk show host out of Los Angeles talked about the way the continent of Africa is very strict against homosexuality. In a number of countries you can be jailed for being a homosexual. This host stated that he couldn’t understand why homosexuals chose (there’s that word) to be homosexual and risk going to jail. This man believes a biological urge can be turned off just because some can’t understand, fear it and pass laws against it. This same host was all up in arms about the food police (as he calls them) wanting to tax food high in sugar. Hmm, I wonder why, if a law is passed, can’t he just not buy the product?

The funny part of the homosexuality issue happened when a few days later he talked about a lesbian couple that moved into the neighborhood. They had children and while he said HE didn’t care, he wondered what he would tell his daughter? I honestly doubt he would have to tell her anything but he just kept talking about how much of a burden this might put on him. He got a call from someone with a similar situation, only it was a gay couple with children, and the caller went on with a story of trying to explain it to his young son, who asked about it. According to the caller, his explanation that some men just love men didn’t seem to go too well with the young lad. The boy declared he was going to marry the boys in his school and the next day the boy started kissing some boys in his class.

You can guess what happened. The radio host went ballistic; talking about this is what happens to the youth of America when their young minds are polluted by the liberal homosexual mob. OK, he wasn’t that strong but it was close. The irony was when the caller was able to talk again he mentioned that half his male relatives in his immediate family were gay.

While the host and the caller wanted to blame some gay conspiracy, from my untrained mind it would seem if half your male relatives are gay, I don’t see how that was a choice or how the little lad decided to make a choice after one conversation.

I understand why the choice thing being thrown out by those with a certain agenda, but it’s stupid to think this is something people would want to aspire to. People with a certain agenda want to assure each other people can be forced down the ‘right’ path. It could be who they have sex with, what race they associate with or any number of non-conformist paths. The underlying factor is changing the person to get them to follow the crowd. We do make choices I our lives, sometimes stupid ones, but not everything is a choice. Sometimes we are hardwired for things and we can’t change it for a law. You can’t take a heterosexual and ‘force’ them into being homosexual and visa versa.