tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post8583177642482605117..comments2023-09-30T09:41:52.224-07:00Comments on The Well Spoken Negro's Salon: Christianist Virginians - 3; GLBT Virginians - 0 (Though I Think GLBT Supporters of the New Governor Are Banking on Special Treatment)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905181885778117365.post-86467256835075727922010-03-07T13:26:24.677-08:002010-03-07T13:26:24.677-08:00Have you ever noticed how some of the most elite c...Have you ever noticed how some of the most elite communities back up to some derelict towns. Maybe it's backing up to a county line, some power lines, or a railroad embankment, but usually as you approach the pinnacle of wealth, you find closely, as the crow flies, blight. <br /><br />Could the same not be true of acceptance and equality? With D.C. being the current hotspot of gay marriage just over the bridges from Virginia, could this flare up of selective exclusion have resided anywhere else? <br /><br />Marriage for all consenting adults is the removal of one more "entitlement of superiority" frequently reserved for a select group. <br /><br />This was the group which didn't want slaves freed. This was the goups which didn't want anything but white men to vote, or at least make sure only white men got one vote, and not a fraction thereof. This is the group which did not want women to vote. This is the group which did not want intergrated schools. This is the group which did not want inter-racial marriage. This is the group which did not want women to decide their own reproductive rights. This is the group which today, does not want homosexuals to enjoy the benefits of marriage.<br /><br />The theme is always based on this one group knowing better, their keeping something from another group, and their legislating the status quo so as to ensure their condescending superiority in black letter law. <br /><br />Tokenism is all the concession this group will ever make, and that's been more for the flag waving and putting forth select examples to pacify the many. <br /><br />So, as you look around, realize this, the poverty of our republic is in the quiet middle, which allows the self-enamored (be them racist, mysogynists, homophobes, or some combination of all three) to peddle the poison of hate and implied righteousness of their blatantly discriminatory practices.<br /><br />The crow hasn't far to fly to find disparity of unequal treatment around the Potomac river, within California, amongst the states bordering Iowa, or in the New England region. <br /><br />It is time both the group perpetuating these frauds of reasoning and their patterns of deceit, which need to be clearly identified and labeled as both unjust and untollerable. <br /><br />The United States must move forward toward a more equal union, and do so most especially at the expense of those caught up in the hubris of their religious privelege of being.<br /><br />I'm just sayin'...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com