Daric Cottgham says even at an HBCU, as a journalism stunt he felt he had a target on his back for beg openly gay and fem.
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While studyg journalism, Cottgham felt a target on his back for beg Black, gay, and fem. Like many Black people who've heard that exact phrase, means we have to do more to be seen as equals to our whe I me out, at 17, I received the extend versn of this phrase, bee I have "more targets on my back" beg Black and gay. When I refed, I began to be schled ls as a host, so I left the my hman year at this PWI, more egreg racist events occurred, cludg KKK ralli that were held near mp, and I ultimately cid to transfer to an HBCU (historilly Black llege/universy) at the start of my sophomore time at my HBCU, Prairie View A&M Universy, was better.
I honed my skills, learned a lot about journalism, and worked my way up om a beat reporter to edor--chief by my senr my Black inty did not matter, I still had a target on my back for beg openly gay and femI felt this target so much that often led me to cry myself to sleep at night. But, of urse, that’s only part of Williams’ Simon, creator of the show, once told me that whenever someone asked him why he ma Omar gay, he would rpond: Why did we make the other 19 characters straight? It’s a brilliant unterpot, one that nonts whout antagonizg, while touchg on the theme of the first LGBTQ equaly march on Washgton, back 1979: We are clus the ‘ jt didn’t talk about for people to accept the premise that the most feared man one of Baltimore’s most dangero neighborhoods was openly gay, the actor portrayg him had to first breathe life to an asphyxiated versn of Black masculy.