Cousins! Aries Spears is encouraging fellow men of the Black community to take their health seriously as he addresses stigmas of homophobia regarding colonoscopies!
The comedian took to Instagram on June 25th from a hospital bed while wearing a gown paired with a Black New York Yankee fitted baseball cap.
“I just got done doing my colonoscopy. Public service announcement! Black men, get this done! I know we grew up homophobic in the black community.
“We confuse getting health exams cause a doctor put his finger in your ass with homosexuality. Knock it off… get the colonoscopy,” said Aries within the shared video.
“They put you to sleep, you wake up… and you don’t even know your booty has been tampered with.”
Aries admitted in his caption that he had rescheduled the procedure multiple times out of fear.
“I must have canceled this appointment a dozen times cause I was thinking they was gonna shove a 1980’s sized VHS VIDEO CAMERA up my a** but wit the anesthesia I was put into a MIKE TYSON KNOCK OUT TYPE SLEEP! BLACK MEN GET……THIS….DONE!!”
The 49 year old went on to reveal that the doctors discovered two polyps during the procedure.
“I had two polyps removed that coulda been cancerous had I ignored it!”
Overall Aries says that fear could’ve blocked him from saving his own life and that he advises fellow Black men to take their health seriously and not stand in their way.
Cousins, what are your thoughts on this?
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