Meet Wes Bellamy. He is the Vice Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia who is currently facing calls for resignation after a series of tweets written between 2009 and 2014 in which he refers to gay people as “faggots” and makes disparaging remarks about women were unearthed from the bowels of his Twitter page.
The tweets were discovered by self-proclaimed “pro-free speech, anti-affirmative action, anti-cultural Marxist and pro-equality” blogger Jason Kessler, who shared them on his website last week. In one of the tweets, written back in October 2011, Bellamy answered a question prompted by another user “Does it make males uncomfortable wen girls are so upfront about sex??” with “It only makes faggots uncomfortable.”
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In another tweet from that same time, Bellamy insinuates that women in leadership roles (i.e. school principals, teachers, etc.) turn little boys gay, writing: “I’m all for equal opportunity…but a Female principal with a school full of female teachers is fkn a sure fire way to fk our lil boys up smh.”
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But that’s just the top of the iceberg. Here are some more screenshots from Bellamy’s account:
Since the tweets went viral, 30-year-old Bellamy has issued a statement on Facebook, calling the tweets “disrespectful” and “ignorant” and assuring people that they are not representative of who he is today:
But not everyone is sure about Kessler’s motivations for publishing the tweets.
Nikuyah Walker, a member of the Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP, said while she finds what Bellamy wrote “alarming,” she questioned why Kessler dug so far back into his private Twitter account, which includes almost 123,000 tweets.
“Wes is a black male,” she hypothesizes. “You often face a different level of scrutiny.”
The Daily Progress also points out that Kessler frequently tweets about “alt-right” issues and just last week posted on his Facebook that he is considering a run for City Council to “protect” the city’s Confederate statues and “curtail institutional racial discrimination (i.e. affirmative action).”
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Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
It’s okay. Nobody cares. Why? Take a wild guess.
Daniel-Reader
There are no mental health, maturity, or intelligence tests for pursuing public office. See Trump for more examples.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
More of that unaddressed black homophobia black gays ignore while constantly attacking white gays.
Paco
Just another insecure douchebag straight male (of any color) that needs to attack gay men to make himself feel more like a man. His comments seem like projections of his own insecurities about masculinity.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: Just black gays ignore it? Oh, no. It’s all gays that ignore it. Muslims and blacks get a pass forbtheir homophobia no matter how gruesome or violent they are.
Brian
Wes Bellamy sounds like an arrogant pig. Oh, and are you really falling for the idea that he’s completely heterosexual? I always get suspicious when men are overly homophobic. More often than not, they are harboring hidden same-sex desires.
Alistair Wiseman
ANOTHER QUEERTY (purposeful) FAIL
Naturally, Queerty failed to inform its readers that Mr. Bellamy is a Democrat. Yes, just another r a c i s t, homophobic misogynistic Democrat.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
Why doesn’t this article raise as much rage from commenters as the r-cist, white female supporter having a public melt down?
Kangol
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: What are you talking about? There are calls for him to resign! He sounds like a homophobic, sexist pig and should step down. Kessler sounds like a creep, though!
Jaroslaw
Nikuya Walker -would you feel the same way if someone said “lynch blacks” – or would you say because it was so far back in someone’s tweet history that you would give it less significance?
As to the feminizing influence of too many women leaders, if it is not true, why do all the African Academy’s take such pains to have African/African American men as teachers and role models for the male students ???
Jaroslaw
PS he wrote a real nice apology that makes it sound like he has matured, he was in his early 20s supposedly. I might believe it if he hadn’t made similar or worse tweets in 2014. No one matures THAT much in two years.