Jonathon Capehart: Blacks and Gays: The Shared Struggle for Civil Rights

[Mr.Liberty]

2. Here's the problem with your analysis

While it may be true all oppressed groups may share some vague commonality in that they all were held down to certain extents, the fact of the matter is not all struggles are the same. You can't simply ignore things like brutality, systematic generational oppression, etc because you want to make put your movement on the same level as the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s-60s; an apple and an orange may both be round, but they're still two different fruit. I don't understand the purpose of trying to tie Gay Right to Civil Rights, what are activists supposed to garner from that? I think there is a growing numbness to the realities of pre-Civil Rights America where too many people are beginning to think "it wasn't THAT bad."