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  • It's harder being gay than is being black.

  • It is. Cause' there's somethings that I had...

  • there's somethings that I had to do as gay that I didn't have to do as black.

  • I didn't have to come out black.

  • I didn't have to sit my parents down and tell them about my blackness.

  • I didn't have to sit them down.

  • Mom, dad, I gotta tell you all something.

  • I hope you still love me.

  • I'm just gonna say it.

  • Mom, dad.

  • I'm black.

  • What?

  • What did she just say?

  • Oh, Lord, Jesus, she didn't say black.

  • Lord, did she say black?

  • Mom, I'm black.

  • Oh,Lord, Lord, Jesus... Anything but black, Jesus.

  • Give her cancer, Lord.

  • Give her cancer.

  • Anything but black, Lord.

  • Yeah, mom, I'm black. That's just how it is.

  • No, you know what.

  • You've been hanging around black people.

  • You've been hanging around black people.

  • And they got you thinking you're black.

  • They twisted your mind.

  • It's like"No, Mom, I'm black. That just how it is."

  • What did I do?

  • What did I do?

  • I knew I shouldn't let you watch Soul Train.

  • Was it Soul Train?

  • No, mom, it wasn't Soul Train, mom.

  • Just who I am.

  • I was just born black.

  • Oh, you weren't born black.

  • I don't wanna hear that.

  • You weren't born black.

  • The Bible says Adam and Eve.

  • Not Adam and Mary J. Blige

It's harder being gay than is being black.

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