What are you trying to say Wes? Black people are incapable of being homophobic because they’re black? As a POC, I’ve had to hide my orientation from EVERYONE because you know what my people do to gays? They fucking shoot them and the police don’t investigate as a hate crime because its black on black crime. Yet, here you are, putting them on a pedestal. Do you know how many black bear porn videos I can find? Not a whole fucking lot, and they’re always fucking a white boy. Man the fuck up.

Well first, I’m really sorry that happens, and I hear your anger, I really do. I just want to acknowledge that.

I certainly don’t think black people are incapable of homophobia, and that was never something I wanted to imply. Nor was it my intent to put them on a pedestal. What I was doing was airing out the shitty reasons for why I have kept them out of stories in the past. Those were bad reasons–I’m fully aware of that.

Sex and politics are more intimate that we like to admit. These stories are, at the heart, a very personal depiction of how I view politics, and power relationships, and morality. That means, that every porn and piece of erotica which *does* include race is immediately brought into comparison with racial politics in general. A Black bear is never *just* fucking a white boy. That video carries with it it’s own commentary on power and race relations whether it intends to or not, because it was produced by a system which considers race in particular ways. That may not make much sense, I suppose, but a porn story is never *just* a porn story, leaving race out entirely has, in the past, seemed easier. But I don’t think it is honest, and I think it’s cowardly, and I’d like to find a way past it for myself.