Sandra Bradley, an administrative assistant working in the office of Morehouse College President Robert Franklin, was fired this week after an email she sent via work containing derogatory remarks about a couple's gay wedding photos was brought to the attention of school officials.
Said Bradley in the email:
“I can’t believe this wedding. It’s 2 men. They don’t smile in a lot of pictures and they look like a few brothers I’ve seen in the streets looking STRAGHT. Black women can’t get a break, either our men want another man, a white woman (or other nationality that’s light with straight hair), they are locked up in jail or have a 'use to be' fatal disease. I’m beginning to believe Eve was a black woman and we Black women are paying for all the world’s sins through her actions (eating the apple),"
The AP reports: "Morehouse president Dr. Robert M. Franklin released a statement about the incident Thursday and said the school has a no-tolerance position on discrimination."
Here's the statement:
"The views expressed in the e-mail entitled, 'The WTD of the Week,' (September 28, 2009) were the personal views of one individual and do not reflect the values or policies of Morehouse College. Morehouse College has a no-tolerance position on discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and the College has taken great strides toward building a diverse and tolerant community. After investigating the matter, the College has disciplined the persons involved in the incident, and one of the implicated employees is no longer with the College. In addition, the College has reminded its staff that the Morehouse e-mail system is College property, should be safeguarded as any other College property, and that e-mails that are discriminatory, inflammatory, or derogatory to any group are prohibited at the College."
Morehouse College President Robert Franklin sent a letter to the entire college community:
"It is my sincere hope that the gay and lesbian community, and most specifically Michael Cole Smith and Jamil Smith Cole—whose wedding photographs became the subject of an unkind and intolerant email sent and forwarded by a Morehouse College employee—will accept my official apology on behalf of the College community.
"Morehouse College—the institution where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of our nation’s premier champions of human and civil rights, was nurtured—has a history of promoting tolerance and inclusion for all people. Remarks such as the ones made in the e-mail were counter to Dr. King’s—and the College’s—core values and will not be tolerated from any Morehouse employee or student. Effective September 30, the employee who made the offensive comments is no longer working for the College.
"I will continue to emphasize to the Morehouse community the message that was shared during an April town hall meeting: On the matter of diversity, Morehouse is committed to being a respectful campus that balances personal liberty with the responsibility of membership in a moral community. This has been and always will be a community dedicated to promoting respect and tolerance between heterosexuals and homosexuals. We encourage everyone to aspire to high ethical standards and we demand responsible community behavior. Those who cannot embrace the Morehouse code of ethics will be sanctioned accordingly."
Michael Cole Smith and Jamil Smith Cole were married on September 13 in Minneapolis, according to the Southern Voice: "The two met at Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride in 2007 while Jamil was living in Detroit. Jamil re-located to Minneapolis, where Michael has lived for 20 years, and the two own their own hair salon. They posted the pictures on their Facebook page, and someone apparently downloaded them and started the email chain. The pictures have turned up on a dozen African American blogs, where the comments are often hurtful and homophobic."
Source: Towleroad.com
It really saddens me how homophobic the black community has become. While we are busy fighting for marriage equality, it seems if we could except the fact that black homosexuals exist in our communities instead of thinking it is a white disease, we wouldn't have so many brothers getting their gay jollies on the low. There's often this "don't ask, don't tell policy that has existed in communities of color (not just blacks), and it really gets under my skin. maybe it's because like many white celebrities, we don't have anyone who is a major celebrity that is black and gay in the industry (if there is one, let me know.) The only black gays I see that are3 taking cunty to a whole new level are the gays that frequent The Real Housewives of Atlanta. You can get your hair and nails did by a faggot, but god forbid your son, brother or cousin ends up as one. I think Sandra Bradley needs a reality check. Someone needs to inform that donkey that everything isn't for anybody, and if she's looking for a specific kind of "black man," she's not looking in the right place. People like Sandra need to also stop blaming black men for everything. Not every black man goes for white women, or are deadbeats, or are the cause of spreading HIV. My father who is black has been with my mother for 31 years, and are still going strong. Sure he wasn't there alot doing the typical kid things, but that was because he was trying to put food on the table to support his family. Also i wasn't your average kid. i wasn't into sports, and i was more into writing, going to drama class, and working on music. I was an artist, so that's what I focused on growing up. building my crazy imagination so i can be the creative person I am today. growing up, my parents took me, my brother and sister to museums, the movies, amusement parks, and we traveled all over the U.S. when he was on vacation.
So as I said, you're not looking for the right man in the right place. Now that she's unemployed, she'll have alot of time to think about it. Black queers exist, and the sooner these hypocrites who spread their homophobic rhetoric in their churches (but are busy banging the choir boy as soon as the service is over), salons, and wherever else learn this, the better off you'll be.
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