Stripped down, a few simple factors are the basis of why Barack Obama won the 2008 Presidential election:
A) The economy is currently in peril. B) He's half white. C) Joe Biden is white. D) Sarah Palin is incompetent. E) The Republican Party has a low approval rating.
My ancestors have been enslaved for 400 years and 100 million have died in the slave trade, 150 years after emancipation, Barack Obama is the President-elect. From basic calculations, one can conclude that centuries of barbaric human rights violations later and a black president will be in office.
How many hundreds of years has gay marriage been placed on the ballot?!I understand that the LGBTQ community is being discriminated against and prejudice is injustice. I'm African American, I get it, but statements are being made with a tone that suggests, 'How dare a black man lead and we can't marry?!' Sounds like hints of bigotry to me.
Those in favor of banning gay marriage vary. Religious folks of all races vote against gay marriage. I know black people who voted in support of gay marriage and white people who voted against it, yet I'm lumped into one category as a homophobic black person because of my race.
Are gay people forgetting the history of this country - racism, sexism, classism, ageism, homophobia, prejudice - bigotry!!!! Is that going to vanish quickly just because you want it to?
If religion continues to be used as a source to fight "evil" in the forms of reproductive rights, gay marriage and more, shouldn't that be considered as
the main factor that's stalling legalized gay rights? Many religious citizens don't consider electing a biracial man as president to be a sin, but they perceive gay marriage to be morally wrong. Why compare Barack Obama to gay marriage? Once again, apples and oranges, people, and that argument is weak at best.
Be patient with this very new issue. You will have your moment soon. :) It's overdue, but it's coming.
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