The Spencer Hamilton Blog

The Gay PRIDE flag is no stranger to controversy; homophobic people hate it because it acknowledges gay people exist. Puerto Ricans have a PRIDE flag, Australia and the US have one combined with its national flag and rainbow. Religions have chipped in with a Jewish PRIDE have a Star of David and there is one for Gay Muslims too with their crescent moon and star. Today, a PRIDE so called controversy exists and it has been started in Philadelphia where black and brown stripes were added to the gay PRIDE flag. Where’s the white one? “Well, you have enough film and TV roles, opportunity in this country, you can go a whole lifetime not seeing another race (or having really limited contact with them) in some places you live and you’re pissed off about a stripe?!” This screen capture shows one response that was a YUGE mic drop! See, black LGBTs started Stonewall and as the movement got bigger and bigger white men and women dominated it. Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson were la...

I’m here to talk about the fact that the Wiz was called racist for having an all black cast These people are very funny because they never said anything about the teen movies like The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, St Elmo’s Fire, Home Alone…let’s go back into the 60’s Pillow Talk, Viva Los Vegas,   most of Elvis’s movies were predominantly white but I hear no one complaining about that. Gone With The Wind had a black cast member who was nominated for her role (Hattie McDaniel) and I’m sure when she won at the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress we had a lot of racists out there saying then that she doesn’t deserve the award because she’s a nigger. I don’t care what anybody says about this but if you are more offended that I used the word than someone constantly calling me that in the comments, and talking about I live in public housing, I have food stamps, I only want people to support me because that’s why I support Bernie Sander...

 I watched the 2012 version of Steel Magnolias and I liked it more than I thought I would’ve. I saw the personalities of women I grew up with who were tough, with gentle hearts, razor sharp wit and went through the loss of one of their own. They were a family that loved one another. They were as the title suggested tender yet strong.   I saw my sisters, cousins, Aunts, and even my nieces. These black women in my circle mean the world to me. They are a part of the man I grew up to be, they are irreplaceable. I walked away from the movie appreciative of the women I knew and grew up with, would call my friends and argue with like we were siblings. Then there is another movie playing in my head and I for the life of me want it to end. I want it to end because unlike Steel Magnolias it seems to be repeating constantly on a loop with different names and situations with the same result and the same refrain.   “If they didn’t” If Sandra Bland didn’t mouth off” “ If Rekia ...

Confederate Flag & Burning Black Churches So Dylan Roof is a lone wolf in SC, wearing the flags of Rhodesia & South Africa, apartheid era regimes in Africa. He surrounded by white people in his hometown, white straight males outnumber most people of color in his Legislature, Confederate Generals have buildings named after them—which in front of them are wreaths of the Charleston 9 in front—and they fought to uphold slavery. John Fueslgang compared the Confederate flag to keeping your side piece’s picture up in the house that you and your spouse share. The romanticism of the Old Confederacy and South…well, it’s pitiful, but they claim heritage So let me tell you about your heritage. The “War of Northern Aggression” was fought to uphold slavery, to keep people as pets. After slavery, the Black Codes changed the word slave to Negro and the slavery laws were basically intact, then we started seeing and still are seeing how the different races are taught in the legal sys...

I saw some footage of an exchange between Louie Gohmert R-TX and AG Eric Holder where Gohmert accused Holder of not taking a Congressional investigation seriously and Holder finally had the spine to stand up to Gohmert and say “You don’t wanna go there, don’t assume that this isn’t important to me” and then Gohmert shot back that Congress was trying to get to the bottom of Fast & Furious where “innocent Mexicans died” of course that was a dig at the administration, don’t confuse it with sincere regard for the Mexicans who were allegedly killed Afterward at an NAACP speech, Holder said “Forget that it’s me, when have you EVER seen an Attorney General Of the United States treated like I was by a House Panel?” Everyone attended knew exactly what he was talking about, it was a dog whistle of a different sort, calling out racism without exactly using the term racism. See, AG Holder and President Obama have often had to be very careful, whether necessarily or not about talking abou...