Black males and also females who are both attracted to and are living out varying degrees of loving women (noting that not everybody who is attracted to women loves women) can say that they have experienced these mind boggling experiences from time to time.

That is not to say that they can't happen with men, but I hasten to add that such conduct in males is probably far more irregular.

It can be difficult to communicate the piercing distress caused by these engagements to someone who hasn't experienced it or who wasn't there to see it for themselves. That is, even while it is important to acknowledge that in this case the "sufferer" all but asked for the end result.

This video by Pierre Bennu takes the dynamics associated with these incidents and catapults them into the limelight from the perspective of a "victim" - and he makes it real enough to feel.

In this case, a Brother and a Sister jockey for position against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful songs "ever told" (while the Brother's attention is diverted by inopportune second tier flirtation) - but then all still seems copesthetic, when "Bamn!" or . . .
"Damn" . . .

Here again, find another example of a producer capturing Black humanity and life experience doing its thing, and presenting it sensitively and lovingly.





"Damn"















Terry Howcott is a Master of Social Work, speaker, activist, thinker, and writer and your host at terryhowcott.com
She can be reached at terryhowcott@terryhowcott.com

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"Proud Woman," Courtesy of: African Millennium Foundation, www.african-millennium.com

"Agave2." Courtesy of: John Villinski, Abstract Southwest, www.abstractsouthwest.com

African “Egghead” and Black Man in White
Courtesy of: Gene Pearson, Gene Pearson Studio, www.genepearsonsculpture.com