Emmanuel Jochi

Yes.

It's also just interesting because it feels like the whole point of the event was to sort of bring the gay rights movement into sort of like a more mainstream button-up sort of... Like to make it the sort of thing that like your average...

do-good-old white housewife of that era probably could be like, oh, you know, look at them.

They're doing this thing.

And he's refusing to basically keep it in that place.

He's like, no, let's talk about what we're really here to talk about.

Okay, so what is going on for him?

Like, is he just rejecting just, like, the whiteness of it all one more time?

Like...

Right.

You know?

Right, right, right.

They're still racist as hell.

And he's also doing that thing... I don't know.

There's this thing I feel like with Black performers, and especially in that era, probably, which is, you know, we're only, like...

a couple of decades removed from sort of like the dance, black man dance kind of like nature of like minstrel shows and people performing for white people in a way that was totally like black people were always the joke.

Right.

Yeah.

I think it's something...

Honestly, I think it's something in my generation when you talk to Black kids who grew up in suburban spaces.