Darnell, methinks ye doth protest too much.

Now, I respect, uphold, and will lay down my life to defend your right to be as gay as the birdies on the first day of spring! Or queer as Nutella on a banana point, as you prefer. This here is America, and that’s (for now, at least) what we DO.

I am from Long Island, and I know how many black kids Seton Hall has masticated and regurgitated over the decades.

I believe in Jesus.

But I ain’t Catholic.

So this single mom who has availed herself to the services of PP more than once and been grateful — turned down a four-year, full-ride scholarship to Notre Dame in the 80s. Probably long before you were born.

Because. I ain’t Catholic. They do things differently. They do things I don’t like in a manner of which I do not approve. Any HBCU would have been glad to have you. And your worldview.

Maybe you should have been a Morehouse Man.