Discrimination Fallout
When California voters passed Proposition 8 on November 4, it seemed like the issue of marriage equality was dead in California (or at least on ice). But as I've talked to people and read papers and various internet sources, the aftershocks of the vote are shattering old alliances and causing each of us to search our hearts for the path of justice.
From discussions on how people over 60 were some of the key demographics that supported the marriage discrimination initiative to the rumors of Mormons leaving the church after being pressured into donating money towards the Yes on 8 campaign and realizing they didn't believe in discrimination, the aftershocks may ultimately be what brings down the old order. Online boycotts of Prop 8 financial supporters are popping up like mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest and an entire generation of activists have been born in the last two weeks and are doing an amazing job. The next person who talks shit about this country's younger generation is sitting at home with their fingers in their %Rk&*DSFKj.
The latest victim of fallout is the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP. Comparisons have grown between this latest civil rights issue and as some people call it The Civil Rights Movement (of the 1950s and 60s) and the old assumptions of alliances are being challenged. I've heard African American journalist denounce the similarity and others rejoice in it. I joined the San Diego protest on November 15 and listened to speaker after speaker invoke the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a blueprint for this current upwelling.
Apparently the President of the SF chapter of the NAACP was an outspoken opponent of proposition 8 or a support of equal rights for all depending on how confusing you want to be about the verbiage. The chapter's biggest fundraiser is coming up and according to the SF Chronicle, about 25% of planned participants are now boycotting the fund raiser. To compound the tensions, the African American community and the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Queer community include quite a bit of overlap.
The word on the street is to take this discussion to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and community leaders. Tell everyone you know how discrimination hurts you personally and how it harms the people you love. Share the story of your gay neighbor who cat sits, or your son's lesbian soccer coach. Share the story of the transvestite tennis player you volley with on Sundays and the Republican ex-cop Mayor has a daughter who wants to marry her girlfriend at San Diego City Hall. Make the political personal and put a face on the the people being hurt by classifying their love and their lives as less than.
Each and everyone of us deserves to find love and create a family.
From discussions on how people over 60 were some of the key demographics that supported the marriage discrimination initiative to the rumors of Mormons leaving the church after being pressured into donating money towards the Yes on 8 campaign and realizing they didn't believe in discrimination, the aftershocks may ultimately be what brings down the old order. Online boycotts of Prop 8 financial supporters are popping up like mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest and an entire generation of activists have been born in the last two weeks and are doing an amazing job. The next person who talks shit about this country's younger generation is sitting at home with their fingers in their %Rk&*DSFKj.
The latest victim of fallout is the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP. Comparisons have grown between this latest civil rights issue and as some people call it The Civil Rights Movement (of the 1950s and 60s) and the old assumptions of alliances are being challenged. I've heard African American journalist denounce the similarity and others rejoice in it. I joined the San Diego protest on November 15 and listened to speaker after speaker invoke the words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a blueprint for this current upwelling.
Apparently the President of the SF chapter of the NAACP was an outspoken opponent of proposition 8 or a support of equal rights for all depending on how confusing you want to be about the verbiage. The chapter's biggest fundraiser is coming up and according to the SF Chronicle, about 25% of planned participants are now boycotting the fund raiser. To compound the tensions, the African American community and the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Queer community include quite a bit of overlap.
The word on the street is to take this discussion to our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and community leaders. Tell everyone you know how discrimination hurts you personally and how it harms the people you love. Share the story of your gay neighbor who cat sits, or your son's lesbian soccer coach. Share the story of the transvestite tennis player you volley with on Sundays and the Republican ex-cop Mayor has a daughter who wants to marry her girlfriend at San Diego City Hall. Make the political personal and put a face on the the people being hurt by classifying their love and their lives as less than.
Each and everyone of us deserves to find love and create a family.
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