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Originally Posted by blondboinsd
I feel that African Americans and homosexuals have alot in common in the fact that both have dealt with the cruel understanding that separate is never equal, so I made the comment in that context, take as you please. I'm referring to us being allowed civil unions vs marriage, reference to colored bathrooms vs white bathrooms, the list goes on and on....
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Why just African-Americans? What about Women? Mexican-Americans? Why do you think the homosexual cause is uniquely similar to the African-American one?
Rights are rights. Agreed! So does that mean the rights of coal miners is the same as homosexual, women's or racial rights? This is where this argument is truly flawed to me.
Even within the gay community there was racial discrimination. An African-American gay man, at one time, could not go to a white gay club no matter now discrete. This fact alone separates the gay African-American experience from a white gay experience. The African-American experienced a different level and depth of discrimination as the only difference was one... Race... So how can you now equate the fight for racial rights as the
same as homosexual rights?? It is inherently not the same fight.
The agruement that both rights are equal in importance, I agree with! But just because they are both equal in importance, does not mean that were the same fight. They were most definitely not!!