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4:35 pm - 01/01/2013

Fantasia: 'I'm Not Anti-Gay'



Fantasia Barrino caused a firestorm of controversy when she posted a rant referencing gay marriage on her Instagram account. Some fans thought it sounded very anti-gay but the American Idol alum insists she's anything but.

“I Rise ABOVE IT ALL!!! THE WORLD IS GONE MAD. KIDS, THE GOVERMENT, THE church House… Everybody Trying!!!!!!!,” the singer wrote. “It’s a lot that going on that the Bible speaks about we should Not be doing. Weed legal in some places, Gay Marriage Legal BUT YET IM JUDGED!!! Im not doing Nothing for you… My Life!!!!”

Fantasia's rant was a reference to the criticism she's had aimed at her because she began her affair with her baby daddy Antwaun Cook when he was still married. The two became parents just over a year ago.

The angry response brought about a quick statement from Fantasia's management saying she was a strong supporter of "the LGBT community," and Fantasia herself got back into the fray, posting, "I, Fantasia Monique Barrino, don’t judge anyone because I don’t want to be judged. The gay community is one of my largest supporters. I support the gay community as the support me. Bloggers please stop misrepresenting the facts.”

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xgirldc 2nd-Jan-2013 12:46 am (UTC)
ugh ia so hard. i was just having this conversation the other day - so many of the shows i watched when i was growing up where all black or predominantly casts but today i can't name one. at the time they were just the shows i watched, i didn't really recognize that those people were any different than i was. i liked them and i didn't care who was on them, because i thought they were funny.

personally i dont care if every show has a multi-racial cast (people here will probably hate this sentence). i would be fine with different points of view shown on television came from different shows.
aubade_saudade 2nd-Jan-2013 01:35 am (UTC)

personally i dont care if every show has a multi-racial cast (people here will probably hate this sentence).


lol no. it makes sense. you love girls and are defending it against criticism of its racial homogeneity


xgirldc 2nd-Jan-2013 01:38 am (UTC)
i don't require television to make me a person who understands and appreciates many cultures and types of people. i just watch what is good. its that simple.
aubade_saudade 2nd-Jan-2013 01:45 am (UTC)
oh

so are you the type of person that understands that pocs and other minorities might want to see themselves in all types of media


or are you the type who ostensibly gives a fuck until their fave all white show gets criticized for erasure and then suddenly it's all about color blindness and look at those poc needy bitches requiring a tv show in order to be real people?
xgirldc 2nd-Jan-2013 01:46 am (UTC)
whatever gets you through the night, little pumpkin.
aubade_saudade 2nd-Jan-2013 01:49 am (UTC)
lol nice deflection, little pimple


lovebum4life 3rd-Jan-2013 04:25 am (UTC)
oh to be white. I wish I had that pov.
akaich0u 6th-Jan-2013 08:55 pm (UTC)
I'm Asian and I agree with her.
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