 There were also charges of racism , due to his portrayals of blacks and Hispanics . Baker denied those charges , and pointed out that the protagonist later realized that the blacks were also gay and the Latina " was just a sweet old woman putting up with a lot of ( stuff ) that I couldn 't even imagine . " He went on to say , " I just wanted to explore the conflicts between gays and Latinos and gays and blacks ... the real feelings [ and the ] misapprehensions of each other . I realized it wouldn 't all be nice and politically correct . If blacks ( and Latinos ) want my respect , they have to deal with their own homophobia . I 'm not playing guilty liberal anymore " . 
 <a href='dey_it' title='1'><mark>There</mark></a> <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> also charges of racism , due to his portrayals of blacks and Hispanics . Baker denied those charges , and pointed out that the protagonist later realized that the blacks <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> also gay and the Latina " was just a sweet old woman putting up with a lot of ( stuff ) <a href='null_relcl' title='4'><mark>that</mark></a>I couldn 't even imagine . " He went on to say , " I just wanted to explore the conflicts between gays and Latinos and gays and blacks ... the real feelings [ and the ] misapprehensions of each other . I realized it wouldn 't all be nice and politically correct . If blacks ( and Latinos ) want my respect , they have to deal with their own homophobia . I 'm not playing guilty liberal anymore " . 
It was also charges of racism , due to his portrayals of blacks and Hispanics . Baker denied those charges , and pointed out that the protagonist later realized dat da blacks was also gay and the Latina " was jus a sweet old woman putting up wid a lot of ( stuff ) I couldn 't even imagine . " He went on to say , " I jjuswanted to explore tdaconflicts between gays and Latinos and gays and blacks ... thdaeal feelins [ and the ] misapprehensions of each other . I realized it wouldn 't all be nice and politically correct . If blacks ( and Latinos ) want my respect , they gotta deal wwitttheir own homophobia . I 'm not playin guilty liberal anymore " .