Earvin Johnson III, 20, nicknamed EJ by his parents Cookie and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, strolled proudly hand in hand on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip with his boyfriend and his parents made it clear that they support him 100 percent,reports TMZ.
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 ”Cookie and I love EJ and support him in every way,”  Magic tells TMZ. “We’re very proud of him.”

Wearing what looks to be black stockings, a fur coat and carrying a red purse, EJ said that he was hoping and praying for his father’s baseball team, the L.A. Dodgers, and for the Los Angeles Lakers to be successful.

EJ is one of the basketball legend’s three children. Andre Johnson, 31, is his son from a previous relationship. He and Cookie are also parents to Elisha Johnson whom they adopted in 1995.

This is not the first time that Johnson has faced what is typically a taboo topic in many quarters of the Black community. On Nov. 7, 1991, he announced that he was infected with the HIV virus and

If a new poll commissioned by BET founder and business magnate Robert Johnson is any indication, the myth of a monolithic Black America has been shattered and one-size-fits-all Black leadership has gone the way of the cowboy — just replace rodeos with rallies.

The Zogby Analytics poll,  aptly titled, “Black Opinions in the Age of Obama,”^[1] compiled responses on a wide-range of issues –  from education to unemployment — that illuminated either a startling level of cognitive dissonance or a stirring level of faith, depending on whether one prefers their glasses half empty or half full.

When asked why they believed the Black unemployment rate was double that of Whites, responses include:

• Failure of the education system for minorities/African Americans (50%)

Interestingly enough, the respondents don’t seem to connect the failure of the public education system with a push towards privatization favored by President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that tokenizes Black