Reply #324: jonnyblitz - listen,

[bluedawg12]

homophobia everywhere needs to be fought. But not by you and me, assuming you are white, as I am.

Because we don't live the lives of black gay people and we don't know what they are up against.

They need to fight it in their own way. That's why I posted the blackpride gay thing. It's a really different out look.

I am not saying don't talk about homophobia in the black community, I am saying we really can't understand it,if we grew up white.

Anymore than some heterosexual can understand what their hate speech means to me when they say it smiling and quote some scripture or theology.

It's not tabboo to talk to black people about homophobia, it's that we don't understand where any of it comes from. Probably understand it a lot less than where white homophobia comes from.

I am not trying to silence you any more than I wanted to be silenced, I just want you to be a little more at peace and let this go...it probably would be better for the AA GLBTQ's if we let them handle this and butt out.
Prop8 is dead, the Courts are still there, new SCOTUS, etc. A little hope.

I say work on our legal battles as gays and frankly I am not particularly interested ( tonight anway, LOL) in convincing any straight people that I am ..golly gee...a f*cking human being. Screw 'em. I am beyond that too. They are almost a lost cause for a awhile- but I do say fight their sorry asses in Court.

As for the black community, they need to deal with whatever it is that they have, or don't have, going on. But I sure as hell can see it is different than what I know. I thought it was the same, I don't think it is. It dawned on me, that there is not the same life, still,in 2008, for everyone, despite our historic election, not every black man or woman went to Harvard law, and they are working on their own issues. I forgot, or was in denial, or things change slowly and economic worries are a priority for many and I thought it wold be better by now in the world,,,it's not poverty is still a raging issue and worse since the last eight years.