Reply #4: Guys- she comes from a different set of priorities [View All]

[bluedawg12]

seriously, I was pissed off when I read this at first because I thought she would see herself as gay first and black second.

I was wrong. I posted over on GD aboutthis just now. I am white and I haven't a clue what it is like to be black nor to have the concerns of a black person.

The first priorities in life are food, shelter and safety.

I haven't grown up around gangs, nor been poor, nor been black.

I don't know why the news paper published that letter because it was bound to get people pissed off.

But, all I'm saying that ethnic experience seems to be more of a commonality than sexual orientation.

I think we need to let the P8 CNN poll go. It could be flawed, as pointed out on Kos, or it could be close.

But as a white person, it hit me tonight after six days of being sick to my stomach about being betrayed by those I thought we had a kinship with, that I was wrong and talking outmy @ss. I mean, just that. Plus, we may be doing some harm to AA gays.

That's why I think this is a legal battle, one for the Courts. Hell we can't even get the tidy white fundy vote with us. We need to stay focused and work together.

Flame me if you wish, but you know I was feeling the same way until it hit me.

We really have, thanks to the douche that's leaving in January, a f*cked world and the rich are richer and the poor are poorer and that trumps marriage for many.

Peace

bd12

This helped me understand:

http://www.ifbprides.org/ifbp_news_june_08_irene.php

>>The growing gulf between whites and blacks, rich and poor can be seen in the HIV/AIDS epidemic that was once an entire LGBTQ community problem and is now predominately a black one.

Another example of our division can be seen in the white gay ghettos that have developed and thrived safely in neighborhoods throughout the country. However, with homophobia in black communities, where most of us reside, we cannot carve out a black queer ghetto within our existing neighborhoods and expect to realistically be safe.

OUR THEMES FOR Black Pride events are different from the larger Pride events. Black Pride focuses on issues not solely pertaining to gays, but rather on social, economic and health issues impacting the entire black community. For example, where the primary focus and themes in white Prides have been on marriage equality, gay people of African descent have used Pride events to focus on HIV/AIDS, other health issues, gang violence and youth homelessness, to name only a few.

By 1999, Black Pride events had grown into the International Federation of Black Prides, Inc. (IFBP). The IFBP is a coalition of 29 Black Pride organizations across the country. It formed to promote an African multicultural and multinational network of LGBTQ/Same Gender Loving Pride events and community based organizations dedicated to building solidarity, health and wellness and promoting''unity throughout our communities. <<