What The Hell?!? Psychologist Says Black Men “Turn Gay” Because They’re Raised By Single Mothers

Really??

Therapist Says Black Men “Turn Gay” Because They’re Raised By Single Moms

A video featuring a psychologist has been making the social media and email rounds again, and many agree with what psychologist Umar Abdullah Johnson is saying about the “black, gay phenomenon.”

Via All Voices reports:

Dr. Abdullah Johnson, a certified psychologist, child therapist and founder of the National Movement to Save Black Boys, feels strongly about empowering the black community, especially young black men. Much is clear after one listens to his many impassioned speeches on the need for fathers and mothers to take an active role in their children’s lives, but is his analysis of why some are gay dangerously flawed?

Listen at the 1:19 mark in the attached video as the doctor speaks about specializing in “homosexual therapy for our teenage people” after suggesting that bickering between parents at home may drive daughters into the arms of another woman instead of a man. He said most lesbians were either abused, raped, told that men were “no good,” bullied or called ugly by boys when they were girls or didn’t have any fathers in the home.

Which brings up the much debated question: Are homosexual and lesbians born that way, or do they “turn homosexual” due to extenuating circumstances like poor parenting, including a lack of fathers?

At the 1:52 mark, the good doctor added that mothers “psychologically castrate” their sons then act shocked when they turn out gay. This statement suggests that being gay is a defect and that mothers are responsible for this shortcoming.

I admire the doctor’s spot-on critique of absentee fathers and barely-there mothers in the black community. I agree that we can do better and need to do better. I applaud him having the guts to not only speak truth to your own but offer solutions as well.

But ostracizing or branding a section of the black population as defects or equating being gay to being emasculated or raped is counterproductive, for he is dismissing large segments of the black community that can and does contribute positively.

As a child therapist, is he counseling young children into believing that their mothers have caused their “gayness”? And if so, is this more detrimental than therapeutic? Do you think Johnson is right or do you think his analysis is deeply flawed?

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