My post on a Yahoo! news story "Many blacks shrug off Obama's new view on gays"

[johnlucas]

27. I point out Blacks because we should know better

When it comes to Whites, as the Republican Party & Yahoo! comment boards show, at least a plurality of them are bigots against one group of people or more. I don't expect much from them since this country was built upon catering to their bigoted mentalities.

But when Blacks echo those points of view, I AM disappointed because we have been & ARE the victims of those bigoted mentalities.
I expect more from us. We should instinctively know better given our history in this land.
I point it out as a reality check.
How have we come to adopt the bigotry of the oppressor?
Do we think we're "in the club" & have earned/gained/won the luxury to oppress other groups?
Do we think that's gonna help us get what we deserve from this country by "eliminating the competition"?

Yeah, Blacks as a population in this country only assist in swaying the national vote. Whites with their numbers are the ones who have the most power to sway the national vote.
A pure numbers game. There's just more of them in this country.
Yes, of course the Whites most of all need to change but us Blacks don't need to be assisting in maintaining oppressive laws.

Us Blacks should stand up to bigotry WHEREEVER it comes from. This coalition of the "minorities" in terms of political power must not break form to help maintain the evil status quo. We put enough of our scrappy numbers together we beat those bigoted White folks.
Blacks, non-bigoted Whites, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, Middle Easterners, Women, Gays all put together can cancel those fools out.
We showed it in 2008 with the election of Barack Obama.
We will show it in 2012 with the RE-ELECTION of Barack Obama.
The bigoted White vote will have no more sway in national elections.
Next step is to cancel out their sway in regional elections.

So I call out Blacks who entertain these bigoted points of view.
They better remember that they have to RENEW the Voting Rights Act every few years.
Keep playing around with that bigotry & one day watch somebody roll back the clock when that Act is not renewed.
You think you're hurting the gays but you're ultimately hurting yourselves.
John Lucas