Reply #49: thecorrection - It's exactly about the future. [View All]

[bluedawg12]

Prop 8 is dead and gone. It's over.

Now where do we go from here?

You are correct, anti-Prop 8 was ahead until they pulled they gay baiting fear card."Our kids...the schools..the horror."

The proponents who pushed Prop8, and we know who they are, didn't educate people they played on fear issues.

They won people over exactly by playing on homophobia and not by education. Bigotry is more a gut feeling than rational. It is reinforced by churches.

So, when we speak about going back out there and educating people, we need help.

That means we need to look at where the problems lay and work on them.

I will work on pro-gay issues where I can. That would be among white people and white churches.

But, that still doesn't address the AA community. If however, saying that bigotry exists towards gays in the AA community means that I am racist, that is essentially saying " Forget you, we have no problem. There is nothing to work on. Go away."

That's why this keeps boiling to the surface, because we are not hearing any explanation for the disproportionate vote against a gay rights issue, nor are we hearing much about going back into their own communities and working for change from AA DU'ers, we just get called racist.

That's denial and enabling.

This letter says a lot.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-cannick8-2008nov08,0,5044196.story
By Jasmyne A. Cannick
November 8, 2008

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We can only go back to our own communities for education. We need help as GLBT and I see a lot of resistence. Like I said, Prop 8 is over, this now about the future. Sen. Obama came to the GLBT community and asked for help. We gave it.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/10-17/news/national/13443.cfm
Obama seeks gay help in battleground states
Democrat is competitive in unlikely places
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Gays came out for Obama and voted in force. We came through.

http://www.windycitytimes.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=19735
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Now that Prop 8 is over and we are getting an understanding of how the vote went, it is clear that there is work to be done:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hZmLBrL36NObNyMR0ghX...
Calif. win emboldens coalition of religious groups
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gayblack8-2008n...
Gays, blacks divided on Proposition 8
For many African Americans, it's not a civil rights issue.
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