Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Saturday, September 30, 2017
GAY-RIGHTS/GAY-MARRIAGE AND BLACK PEOPLE
CALLING THE QUESTION ON GAY RIGHTS, GAY-MARRIAGE AND US
Once certain "liberal", so-called, African American leaders had allowed, indeed solicited, "gay rights and gay marriage groups and money," to assume the same status, stature of legal equivalence to that of the blacks' who had long labored almost alone; who had been too-long-denied any citizenship rights, they had not only betrayed our rich legacy, that is rooted in African American history, creativity, struggle, faith, courage, sacrifice; but, they had also enrolled, enriched, emboldened as our so-called "allies," those discrete groups of homosexual persons who had brought black struggle too-little of anything to be of consequence to our equation.
Having solicited those who brought little more than atheism, hedonism, corruption, all stumbling blocks, to the hard-fought, centuries-long battle fight for our citizenship rights, that dates back to African barracoons, slaveships, plantations, auction blocks, "Jim Crow," mis-education, mass incarceration, that has costed us uncounted lives! Our many sacrifices have costed them nothing! Such so-called "leaders" are actually mis-leaders! Mixing the good with bad; the fair and the foul, for what, for whom?
Our authentic historical leaders have been men and women who have been disproportionately Christian, Bible-reading, ethical, opponents of all kinds of homosexuality. Thus, the social tail now wags the dog, polluting, diluting our divine imagination that has empowered our participation in the fight for freedom, justice, equality; now, on a final thrust to victory in year 2019 and beyond!
This is not condemnation of any particular group of persons' sexual preferences, lifestyle changes, nor gender choices. People will do as they may or desire, anyway. This is strictly limited to what is written above about the unnecessary, unwarranted, commingling, aggregation of the long, historic black struggle with the twenty-first century political celebration of gay-anyway/gay-anything.
All of our forebears (gay or straight) were, and are, surely descendants of heterosexual beings, whatever their choice may later be.