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EFerrari

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4. Bayard Rustin had no problem with that analysis.

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 03:49 PM

Mar 2012

Human rights: Gay rights

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin worked as a human rights and election monitor for Freedom House.[22] He also testified on behalf of New York State's Gay Rights Bill. In 1986, he gave a speech "The New Niggers Are Gays," in which he asserted,

Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new "niggers" are gays. . . . It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. . . . The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.[23]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustin,_Bayard#Human_rights:_Gay_rights

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Jonathon Capehart: Blacks and Gays: The Shared Struggle for Civil Rights [View all] RyanPsych Mar 2012 OP

The mistake many make when they hear the Black-Gay comparison... Moonwalk Mar 2012 #1

Here's the problem with your analysis Mr.Liberty Mar 2012 #2

Both movements started around the same time. The Gay Rights Movement began around 1969. RyanPsych Mar 2012 #3

Bayard Rustin had no problem with that analysis. EFerrari Mar 2012 #4

My analysis hasn't got any such problem--your reply is simply doing what my analysis said... Moonwalk Mar 2012 #5

I wasn't trying to turn this into a pissing contest RyanPsych Mar 2012 #6