Wow…who knew after just starting this blogcast back in October it would start to get the attention it has? You ruffle a few feathers by speaking about the “Black Harvard” and folks want to get all indignant and violent. What’s that about?
Anyway, this is the conclusion of the Man of Morehouse series. The Gregory Love and Aaron Price incident caused many heated debates among students, faculty and the Black gay community in Atlanta as a whole. And through all of this, I just wanted to graduate and leave with my degree and sanity intact. Without further adieu…the finale of Man of Morehouse.
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- Dr. Randal Pinkett
- The Apprentice: Finale – TV Squad
- African Americans for Safe Space Everywhere For All (ASSEFA)
- Time to Clean Up “The House”
- The Saga Continues
- More on the House
- Directions and Reflections
- Fulton County DA Invokes Hate Crimes Penalty in Morehouse Beating
- Updates on “The House”
- Mixed Verdict for Ex-Morehouse Student
- Homos 101
- Morehouse conducts survey on homosexuality
- Homophobia at Morehouse by Charles Stephens
F*@k all the haters. Tell yo’ story.
It’s your blog, dammit!
I second Bernie
what’s sad about the whole price/love incident is the fact that the level of violence was condemned not the fact that this man was nearly beaten to death for an innocent accident. if people are so uptight about being seen naked by the same sex, don’t take a shower in a public arena, don’t share a room and most importantly, don’t be a bitch-do you know how many times i saw ny roomie or other girls in the shower naked? too many to count, it just wasn’t that serious.
damn graduating in the rain! at least my ghetto high school had the decency to let us graduate at the great western forum
glad to see that you came out of there was a little bit of your sanity intact, UCSB is damn near about to drive me crazy
have fun in Chicago!!!
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awesome wrap-up. although, it would have been interesting to hear some of the negative comments, but great job on the entire series.
I must say I have thoroughly enjoyed your entire Man of Morehouse series. As a current Morehouse student, you have prompted me to evaluate and reevaluate alot of things that I have previously been trying to avoid having to address and accept. Good job on the blog, keep doing what you’re doing and keep doing it well.
I had to comment. I am a Morehouse Man and I was not sure how I was going to take your series our beloved alma mater. I was not “out” during my matriculation there, but as you put it, got into “s*ckin d*ck” after I graduated (although I don’t do it that much ;-) I actually enjoyed your comments and stories and while this was not the Morehouse that I remember, I totally believe everything you say because in so many ways, if you do not fit the traditional Man of Morehouse mold, you are rejected…especially if you are living a homosexual lifestyle.
I wish that you would have had more positive things to say about “Da House,” however, because you have painted a “not so great” picture for those who have no idea what it is actually like to attend Morehouse College. I suppose that your experience was even worsened by the fact that you never really wanted to attend Morehouse in the first place. So many of us had dreams of attending Morehouse College and being a part of the fraternity that so few black men have had the privilege of being a part of. But you never wanted that experience to begin with.
While I will admit that the scenarios that played out for you during your four years there were horrific at times, when you are somewhere where you really don’t want to be in the first place, it makes it that much worse. If you had mentioned that key piece in your blogcasts, I think that the tone would have come across less harsh.
Because I went to Morehouse, I know that it is a phenominal place and I would not have wanted to spend my college days any where else. And while I do think it is important to shed light on an otherwise dark situation, I, as a Morehouse alum and your Morehouse brother, would have appreciated a balance of the positive and the negative, assuming that there was positive. I kind of feel that it is my responsibility to the school to portray it in the best light possible…not to lie about a situation, but to protect my school, because it is such a special place.
I would hope that all of your listeners who did attend Morehouse would listen to your blogcasts with an open ear and would take into account that these goings-on could actually be happening at The House. And I would hope that all of your listeners who are non-Morehouse alum would realize that this is YOUR personal experience, the experience of a man who never really wanted to attend the college and who seems to have other personal issues aside from his troubled college experience (i.e.- friends, ex-boyfriends, mother), and understand that everything good that they have heard about the college, is in fact true, and that it is a wonderful place for African-American men to learn, grow and experience what it’s like to be a Man of Morehouse during matriculation and a Morehouse Man upon graduation. I wouldn’t exchange my Morehouse degree for a Howard, Hampton, Harvard, Yale, or Columbia degree…NEVER! It’s a great institution! “So to bind each, son the other…into ties more brotherly!!!”
Thank you for your time.
Second time listening to this series. I wish you'd do podcasts again. I really like a good story and like your attention to detail. Did you ever talk about high school, growing up in Alabama and how you dealt with feelings for other guys?
I do wish the series were longer and even more detailed, but maybe I an a bit too nosy.
Was there a Trinidadian contingent at Morehouse? I know some guys from here go there–are there many?
Are you still angry towards Morehouse? What do you think you would have done differently?
Do many Morehouse guys attend church? Not a typical college activity I would guess, but being black maybe it was different?
Do you think being out at Morehouse increased your chances of "scoring" or were you brave or did you have superior gaydar?
But I'll tell you man, gay floors, flexible straight guys and weird faculty and staff–it sounds crazy. My life was never a third as interesting!
And one more thing. Your first semester was intense!
How could that guy set you up like that and live with himself? I wonder where he is today?
Also it seems like your subsequent roommates did not care much about your orientation at all. That's interesting. Were you ever heckled?
Anyways, that's all for now lol.