Not sure if I'm reading this chart right. OP said that he wanted to hear more of a perspective from the average blue collar black man. I wasn't sure if he was saying that he simply wanted to hear more from that perspective because its representative of him and the men that he knows or because he thinks the average black man is blue collar.
So my question was, is the average black man blue collar, not if black men were more likely compared to other races to be blue collar. Those are two different questions.
But according to your chart, more black men are white collar. Which could also mean that we can make a correlation to education levels and lifestyle.
I don't think it's accurate to assume that he was implying that the average black man is blue collar. But, was simply referring to the average blue collar black man trying to survive, which is a largely unheard perspective in and outside of our community, despite making up a large portion of the black male working population.
I only bring up the point because the OP appears to be tired of the dominant narrative and how the media caters to a certain narrative. Most middle-class and educated people will be a bit more tolerant and accepting of gays and their rights than blue collar and lower class people (not true always, especially when you include the religion factor). So if there is a predominance of middle-class men and women in the black community, rightly or wrongly, those are going to be the people that carry the narrative and that is what the mainstream media is going to cater to.
I also, don't think it's accurate to make this an issue of whether or not he respects people's human rights, either. Because I'm fairly sure the OP isn't denying anyone's right do as they please with whomever consenting adult they want. Nor is it accurate to assume that most "blue collar and/or lower class people" would either. Most are simply too concerned with surviving to give a hoot about how someone chooses to live their own personal life.
Now what is probably largely missing from the collective consciousness of "blue collar lower class" folks is the adoption of lgbt/gender/sexuality/intersectional theoretical principles that specifically caters to special lgbt interest academically, socially, politically, and in the media, that people who have been university educated, especially in liberal arts and social science fields in most western nations would be exposed to and be more likely to adopt. Which I would argue is something no one is morally obligated to do, as it not a matter of people's human rights, but simply the special interest of a specific group, and that there's A LOT of flaws and hypocrisies in that set of theories and practices, despite how popular and prevailing it is. But, whether or not they do is totally separate than not simply respecting people's personal autonomous rights.
In the same sense that I don't need to subscribe to academic feminism to respect women's autonomous human rights.
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