The Generation Where Everything Is Okay

     As many people have different opinions on strong topics, this generation has proven that being strong to who you believe you are, makes you a unique person. After being in my English 208 class, I have learned what Black Minstrelsy was. This was a very interesting topic to start the semester off with because the story was very dense.  There was multiple different topics that the story went through in the little amount of pages there were. One topic that stood out to me the most, was when they brought up homosexuality. This is a topic that relates to this generation because everyone as a whole, has improved their thoughts and feelings about it. It is popular now more than ever, for people to come out without shame.  

    In this story it was written in the old times, when it was not okay to be anything from "the normal". Women and men got married and had children. In this day and age, men get married to men and women get married to women, while people still get married to the opposite gender. People used homosexuality as an entertainment through Black Minstrelsy and they contained explicitly sexual and pornographic messages. I just thought it was interesting because if white people tried to put on these kind of shows in this generation, it would automatically get shut down. Racism was hidden and was seen as not a big deal back then, but now everyone uses their voice and shuts down the people who are wrong. This was a topic we didn't learn in school on top of many others that were hidden and I think this is something everyone should learn about.  

A cast of one of the Black Minstrelsy shows