Homo Hop & Civil Rights
Detroit rapper Trick Trick set off a fire storm in the gay community with strong hate talk towards homosexuals and the people who defend them. The gay hip hop (Homo Hop) community responded in an untypically strong defiant manner. Basically saying "We aint taking it no more" in an interview on www.allhiphop.com
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Now in the wake of the passing of Proposition 8 in California, defining "marriage" as a union between a man and a woman, there have been a lot of comparisons of the Gay Rights Battle to the Civil Rights Battle. How do you feel about that? Is that a fair comparison?
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posted by BreevEazie at
9:56 PM
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I feel that Civil Rights and Gay Rights are similar but I don't necessarily know if they're the same. I DO BELIEVE that people should be able to marry and loved whomever they chose just like I am given the same choices as a straight woman. I was raised in a very liberal and politically activate family and my parents raised me to love everyone for who they are. I was also raised to believe that being gay is something that happen to you at birth and that people fall in love with people not genders. Yeah I might be an oxymoron in some ways, a very liberal Christian but this my life. And just like I might not make sense to some people; gay marriage may not make sense to others but I feel like they should at least have the choice. According to what America stand for banning gay marriage is denying millions of people their civil rights but its not denying a race. Banning gay marriage is denying a group people with specific sexual orientation and I don't agree that either. Basically, Civil Rights was the movement of the late 50s and 60s and Gay Rights is the late 90s and the 2000s.
Oh and Trick Trick needs some help. He has way to much anger and puts too much attention on this issue for a supposedly straight man. Not to be funny but his name is Trick Trick and we're actually studying what he says?! He probably got people from the gay community thinking he was gay with this whack rapper name. Let the comment beginning I've been reading this blog for the last couple of days.
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Yo, you know I co-sign on everything you just said. Nuff said, lol!
I think everyone and every group of people goes through struggles but it is unfair to compare any struggle to another. The pain and trails suffered by one cannot be validated (or belittled) by comparison of another struggle.
I think gay rights and the civil rights struggle for people of color in this country are in some ways similar but still worlds apart and deserved to be treated as separate entities. Personally, I bothers me when people lump the two together as being the same because I think doing so diminishes what the oppressed people involved are going through. Just because someone is Latino/a or African American does not mean they know what it is like to be discriminated against for being gay. And, just because someone is gay does not mean the feel all the affects of racial discrimination. Some fit into both categories but many do not as well. Don't take away the recognition and voice of those who do not fit into both categories by lumping the two together!
We Americans have this incessant need to classify things and, when we can't, we try to control or kill them (for what is foreign is dangerous to us). However, we need to deal with what is "foreign" if we are going to be the diverse land we claim to be.
I feel you Grant! Its like why compare it? IT seems as though its always Gay Rights advocates who try to do that. Is it to make the Gay Rights struggle bigger or more important? Is it just as important? Are or should you as an African American offended by the comparison? I know some people who are. I border on it. Like when the football player compared taking the football field to going to war and called himself a soldier. Military people were like "Whoa buddy! Football is a rough sport but that aint this!"
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