Not even three months after apologizing for a homophobic tweet from her past, Yung Miami said she doesn’t know why people were offended.
Miami, one half of the rap duo City Girls, posted the inciting tweet in 2013. “Boy Oh Boy,” she wrote at the time. “If I Ever See Any Type Of Gay Sh*t In My Son Imma Beat That Bo So Baddd!!!”
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In August of this year, after Miami gained prominence through her vocals on Drake’s “In My Feelings,” the tweet came back to haunt her, and she promptly apologized.
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“There is an older tweet that has been going viral of me speaking on how I prefer that my son by heterosexual rather than being gay,” she wrote on Instagram. “I understand how it can be seen as offensive to the LGBTQ community. I also realize how insensitive my comments were to my fans and followers. I want everyone to understand that I personally didn’t mean any harm by saying those comments about my son’s sexuality. My deepest apologies and heart goes out to those who have seen that tweet and were offended by that.”
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Miami then tried to clarify the tweet this week while appearing on radio show The Breakfast Club.
“That’s just like, [if] your momma be like, ’If you break my table, I’m gonna beat the sh*t outta you,’ that don’t mean she’s gonna beat the sh*t outta you,” the 24-year-old claimed. “She’s just sayin’. I don’t have nothing against gay people, but I wouldn’t want my son to be gay.”
Despite claiming love for gay people, Miami again emphasized how much she hopes her son will be straight. “Just being a mother, I wouldn’t want my son dating the same sex, but I’m around gay people all the time,” she said. “My stylist is gay, my cousin gay, I love gay people. My favorite cousin that died was gay. That don’t mean that I have nothing against gay people ’cause I don’t want my son to be gay.”
Then came the kicker: “I mean, I apologized for it. I don’t know why they took [offense],” she said.
To recap, Yung Miami doesn’t know why people found her homophobic tweet offensive, just weeks after saying she can “understand how it can be seen as offensive.”
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This talented artist would be well-advised to realize that abuse at home is one of the leading causes of LGBTQ youth homelessness and that while 7 percent of the general youth population is LGBTQ, 40 percent of the homeless youth population is, according to the True Colors Fund. Words matter.
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Interesting! Many fellow bigots wouldn’t want their son to be Black also….
gymmuscleboy
What she says is like saying “I don’t have anything against black people but I wouldn’t want my daughter to be with a black person”.
Brian
Similar but different. Gayness is internal and can’t be beaten out. At least a relationship with someone could realistically end sometime.
dcbanks
These comments will be interesting, we’ll have the gay racists attacking the rapping homophobe.
Kieran
It’s racism to give her a pass for her homophobia. She should be treated like any other homophobic bigot.
Kangol
Thank you. They can’t just criticize her homophobia, they have to racialize it, because they’re racists. But of course they don’t see that. Yet many of them never mention the race of all the white homophobes who appear on this site. I wonder why? Hmm….
gymmuscleboy
Because this site already racialises white homophobes. Black people get a pass. That’s biased. Didn’t you see the story on the term “white gay” recently?
Vince
@Kangol. Because there’s no better way to make an analogy so people might understand.
armandov
She is just an uneducated ghetto chick. It always confuses me when gay people use the “Typical straight white men” line to accuse a segment of the population that is bigoted (and yes, many are) when uneducated black people are also very large threat to the gay community. You may say that is racist but I think any objective person who lives in an urban area would agree.
I live in Houston and it’s the large black churches who are the ones on the front lines of supporting anti-gay measures in the city and the state. It’s just a fact. Obviously, not all black folks feel this way but let’s just say that it doesn’t surprise me that Yung Miami said this.
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DC BANKS: It doesn’t matter the race of a person. If they say something that proves they are a homophobic smcubag they should be called out for it. Stop pulling the bullthit “black privilege” card…..
romerocyn
On the racism issue, I find interesting that when a cop is shot by a black, then race is seldom mentioned. When a white cop kills a black, the cop being white is the lead of the story. In fairness it cuts both ways. I have also wondered why Black Lives Matter does not focus a lot more on black on black kiliings.
Kieran
Some of my best friends are black, but if my son ever dated someone like Young Miami, I’d beat that boy black and blue. I apologize to anyone who takes offense.
Kangol
If you ever laid a hand on a child, not least based on whom that person dated and I knew who you were in real life, I’d report your ass faster than you can say, “I….”
Kangol
Dear Yung Miami, you were criticized because you were being homophobic and rationalizing child abuse. That’s why people were upset. You shouldn’t be near children until you can get help concerning these issues. Otherwise, stay far away from them. Especially young LGBTQ ones.
Terrycloth
Some people dont know WHEN to stop talking..the longer she spoke the worse she made herself look…
Brian
It’s very obvious where the scripted apology ends and the sincere words of her own begin. LOL.
HereIAm
How is what she feels about not wanting her son to be gay any different from someone not wanting their son to be an escort even if they are OK with that profession? She is just saying that in an ideal world, she’d prefer her son to be straight. Not every person on this earth is obligated to like gays. She is entitled to her feeling and maybe one day she will evolve just like President Obama did with the gay marriage.
Xzamilloh
Except Obama is a terrible example because he didn’t “evolve” and merely found it easier to come out for gay marriage once public opinion was majority in support of it. Furthermore, her being “entitled” to her opinion isn’t the issue, but the opinion itself, which is ignorant. As some have pointed out, if you take out “gay” and put “black” in there, the statement immediately becomes racist.
Not to mention, one chooses to be an escort, one doesn’t choose to be gay. You even called it a “profession” and still didn’t get how bad the comparison was.
leighton1985
The majority of the people reading this probably don’t know who this rapper is, and would be happier if it had continued to be that way. Stop giving terrible humans free publicity.
RIGay
Being of that majority population, Leighton, I wholly concur.
JessPH
Let’s go back to that golden age when the opinions of this lowlife D-list celebrity do not matter.
rodzilla
in the words of the great RIGay “I wholly concur.”
ShowMeGuy
When your rap star career is sucking shit and you can’t buy time in the spotlight……do the “I’d beat the queer out of my boy if he starting acting like a fag”……social media post.
Her rhymes are just like her social media posts…….played out and uninspired.
bowlingbutch
All these gay people she says she is around all the time need to confront her and stop being around her. If someone is not supportive of you and makes comments like this why would you be their friend or be supportive of them?
Doug
Sounds a lot like the old double standard used by Christians: “We don’t hate gays, we love them. But we don’t want them in our church unless they’re going to change.”
Jimmer
Why does everything have to be called homophobic, racist,…? I miss “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me”.
I understand part what she is saying, no parent wants their child to grow up LGBT so they don’t have to grow up with all the cruelty they may face for being who they are. Not everything is homophobic. But, she shouldn’t have said she’d beat the gay out of him, that was inappropriate. The correct statement should be “but, if he is LGBT, I will love and support him always”.
I guess since people are using curse words so easily, they needed something new to be offended by.
Sincerely,
Gay man of color
Xzamilloh
Yeah, except with the number of LGBT youths committing suicides, it’s safe to say that the whole “sticks and stones” thing was just a cute way for parents to absolve themselves from dealing with their kids’ problems. Because guess what? Words do hurt. It’s important to pick your battles and not to be offended over everything, but this is a time when you can take issue with what is being said and not act like you’re the strong one for not caring.
Well, good for you. All that means is you don’t care, not that because you don’t care, it’s not something to care about overall. But good job saying what she should have said, and then pretending that the curse words are where the offense was taken.
uberhund
Actually, my mum did. When I told her I was gay, she said “Oh good, I was hoping one of you would be, and I know James isn’t!”
Every queer kid should have a mum like that, and every coming out should be loved and celebrated in that way. When parents say ‘I hope my kids aren’t gay because of the cruelty they’ll get from others,” they’re indulging their own homophobia by indulging it in others.
When my niece Naomi was born, why didn’t my sister and brother-in-law say ‘Oh no, a girl! I wish it was a boy – then he wouldn’t have to endure sexism!’. Instead, they were delighted to have a girl after two boys, delighted to have one of each. Likewise my mother, who had always worked with gay guys (she was a nurse) was delighted to have one in her collection – she knew how great gay people can be and wanted to have one!
And kids have ears. If I was Miami’s kid and knew she’d said that, I’d know I was a disappointment, not the child that was wanted. This is a special wound that homophobic parents give to their own kids, and the kids of other people – to know from the start that you’re unwanted, that you’re being, at best, tolerated. Good luck having a good relationship with that kid, parents!
truckeralex
All great points but she won’t see any of them.
TomG
Instead of worrying if he’s gay or not maybe she should grateful that he is healthy and happy.
uberhund
and delighted that she’s such a cool parent her child would tell her something like this!