President Obama kicked his closet door
completely off the hinges today and declared his support for same sex
marriage.
It wasn't really a surprise, since most
of us figured which way he was “evolving” as he evolved. Some of
it, as he said was wrestling with his conscious. But a lot of it was
testing the air to see which way the political wind was blowing.
I figured if he was gonna come out, it
was going to be around the time the Democrats went for their four
year huddle in North Carolina.
But he got pushed a little early on
Sunday by his VP who staged a coming out of his own, so to speak.
Regardless of how it happened...how it
was staged...how it was completed, I want to say;
Thank you, Mr. President for coming out
in favor of equality and dignity for Americans.
Now...what cha'll gon do Black folks?
The polls say we don't support marriage
equality. We got blamed for the defeat of Prop 8 in California and I
would bet we got some of the blame for the passage of Amendment 1 in
North Carolina, on Tuesday.
And any Black gay or lesbian can tell
you that our community is very conservative, very bigoted, very
homophobic and very non supportive of its own. Many still think that
Black gays get gay from hanging out with white people...that it is a
white thing...
It's bad enough being gay in America.
Try being Black and gay and female. You can be killed, literally for
simply talking in support of gay people. The word “faggot” is
uttered and heard almost as much as the word “nigger.”
Bulldyke...that's a special slur for
us lesbians....lesbos....
So, again, I ask, what cha gonna do,
Black people?
Are you going to support the courageous
stance taken by America's first Black President and help put him
back in the White House.... Give him another four years of pissing
off white people?
He got 98% of the Black vote in 2008,
remember. Will he be able to muster the troops this time, or will
something else happen.
I say something else, because I don't
think there is going to be a sudden and rapid exodus by Blacks from
the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, just because President
Obama supports same sex marriage.
Obama would literally have to declare
himself transgendered and seeking sexual reassignment before Mitt
Romney would be gifted major votes from the Black Community or the
other brown communities in this country.
However, I can see the church ladies
and the religious hypocrites withholding donations because of his
presidential declaration today.
Some might even choose to sit at home
on election day and not vote at all. I can see that happening.
Support the President and piss off white
people....or stay home in biblical and righteous indignation..
Decisions...Decisions..
What cha'll gon do folks....hmmmmmmmmm?
