Civil Rights or a Silly Fight?
Since President's Obama’s first inauguration in 2008, the Black Intelligentsia, media, and notable civil rights leaders have been tripping all over themselves to embrace a GLTB agenda – still widely reviled in mainstream African American churches if not larger community - as a bona fide civil rights issue. This position is keeping with the progressive black community’s most destructive impulses born in the ante-bellum south of a visceral desire to assimilate, which runs against an inherently traditionally conservative worldview for good reason. Beyond that is a simple issue of loyalty. Gays and Lesbians stood with the Civil Rights movement during its heyday in the 50s and 60s. Problem is these high profile Gays were inevitably Negro; notably James "Jimmy" Baldwin, Bayard Rustin to name the two most prominent. Nowhere to be found were any White or Jewish Gay or Lesbian activists of note during a tumultuous 1960s. I would challenge the Black intelligentsia, media, or...