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Charles Cole III: Our Black Boys...
"I'm not talking about the history of black people, of African Americans. I'm talking about at this point right now... I don't know of organizations and groups like Focus on the Family and such anti-gay organizations who are putting up so much money – millions and millions of dollars – into stopping me from, you know, being black or telling me I can't exercise my blackness. There's no equality. There's no equality for the LGBT community."
-- Stand-up comedienne and actress Wanda Sykes opens up on facing adversity in the gay community. (Piers Morgan Tonight)
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By: sam on 6/08/2011 5:59PM
This Negress must get double points from Negroes. After all, not only is she colored, she's also a lesbian. That makes her a "double minority", so she must deserve double the federal government handouts and privleges that a merely colored person is entitled to.
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By: cca on 6/08/2011 6:06PM
Exercising her blackness is not the problem she will never stop exercising her blackness it is who she is, Being black is permanant it will not change. Being gay is her choice. Just don't try and change a law to fit your choices. Laws are made for a reason you have to abide by them. Yes everyone is equal and everyone have civil rights already. this issue is not a civil right issue. Be gay if you want to just don't whine because someone else don't agree with you. You put it out there for them to agree or disagree with it. Obviously the people who made the civil right Laws did not have gay people spicificly in mind when they made these laws, I wonder why. It just pertains to all people.
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By: a.mcewen on 6/08/2011 8:18PM
Remember those same folks didn't include black folks either.
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By: Jason Motley on 6/14/2011 2:30PM
How is being Gay a choice. Who in their right mind would choose to be gay in a time where gays are killed for coming out the closet. Disowned from their family and friends. Denied the beniftis that the straight community takes for granted. They get the harshest treatment from socitity. I 99% sure if you take a black man and a white openly gay man and put them up for the same job 9 out 10 times the black man would get the job. So why would anyone "choose" to be gay. You are who you are. They are born that way.
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By: Karim on 6/08/2011 8:37PM
How could she dare trivialize slavery and the struggle of Afro-Americans. To gay rights and having a gay lover. Gays have more rights than ever. Since they piggybacked their agenda on to the Civil Rights Struggle. Wanda is out of her mind and who is paying her any attention anyway. She is a half ass comedian. She could care less about the struggles of Afro-Americans. Her agenda is very clear. And the last time I looked her audience or targeted audience was not Afro-Americans. By and large serious minded conscious Afro-Americans find her offensive and irrelevant. She needs to tell her story walking.
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By: shad on 6/08/2011 8:48PM
i agree...i think its a shame to compare the civil rights movement to that stuff...give me a break...
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By: BuckwheatsMomma on 6/08/2011 9:01PM
Wanda is saying this because she is gay, and she is married to a woman, and she uses (civil rights) to support and justify her lifestyle!
End of the story!
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By: Jason Motley on 6/14/2011 3:45PM
Civil right. is CIVIL rights. Since you obviously dont know the definition of civil, here it is.
CIVIL
1. of, pertaining to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
2. of the commonwealth or state: civil affairs.
3. of citizens in their ordinary capacity, or of the ordinary life and affairs of citizens, as distinguished from military and ecclesiastical life and affairs.
Nowhere in here does it state Afician-American, White, Native American, Gay, Lesbien, Transgender........ It mentions PEOPLE/CITIZENS. Incase you didn't know that means everyone.
Lets compare the journy of blacks to the journy of Gays.
Blacks - torn from their homeland and families.
Gays - Since there were gays at that time in Africa, they were also. (though it was not because they were gay)
Blacks - Forced to endure hundreds of years of slavery
Gays - Same (once again not because they were gay)
Blacks - Had to fight tooth and nail to get the respect and status that we hold today. (I know we are not there but it has come a long way)
Gays - No where close to where blacks are today.
Blacks - can walk down the street in "relative" safty.
Gays - unless they hide who they are, are targets the same way we were targets in the early 20th.
Blacks - protected by laws that make it a crime to deny work because of race.
Gays - There are still many places that have not ammended there policy to include sexual oritation.
These all seem like civil rights to me. One group of people is being treated then the other based soley on a factor that they are born with.
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By: mikeyllo on 6/08/2011 9:39PM
What's really funny about this whole "gay people are shoving their lifestyles down straight people's throats" thing is that people don't realize that heterosexuals affirm their sexuality as well except it's not considered shoving it down people's throat because it's the norm. When a straight man decides he want's to do something as simple as hold his wife or girlfriend's hand, that's affirming his sexuality. When a straight couple kisses in public, that affirms their sexuality. If a heterosexual male wants to put his arm around his girlfriend or wife, that's affirming their sexuality, etc., etc., etc. Because it's the norm and it's done all day every day, heterosexuals don't even realize that they are sending out the same signals regarding sexuality as homosexuals would like to act out freely. A cute male/female couple express little signs of affection for each other while walking down the street and people look at it as if it's the cutest thing. If a male/male or female/female couple do that exact same thing, people consider it being shoved down their throats. It's really easy to encourage OTHER people to do what they do behind closed doors because it's nobody's business but their own, but would straight couples do the same thing? Of course not. It would be unthinkable.
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By: SteveLC on 6/10/2011 12:44AM
There is a big difference between discrimation toward homosexuals and being Black. They are not the same Ms Sykes need to get her head out of the sand. If she had lived during segregation she would had been denied services because she is black, not because she is a homosexual.
And, for A.MCEWEN MY BIBLE says that homosexual practices is a sin. "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female, and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Deuteronomy 23:2
No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation
1 Corinthians 6:9 (King James Version)
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians 6:9 (New King James Version)
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,] nor sodomites
Now if you do not beleive that there is a God, you have better be right.
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