Where were the black 'No on Prop 8' ads?

I've lived in Africa; I've lived in all-black Brixton, UK and I've lived in Black America.

And let me tell you something...

Black People can be exceptionally cruel.

The REASON our people can sometimes be so viciously evil and selfish is because our "historical victim status" allows our insensitivity to go unchecked in ways that other groups of people are not allowed to go unchecked. EXCUSES are made for our repugnance and our prejudice manifests and manifests.

It's often assumed "incorrectly" that we Blacks are MORALLY SUPERIOR to other people just because we've suffered the worst atrocities.

This is the reason that it's OK for a Black Man to stand up in a Hospital hallway and complain that his baby came out "too black"---yet you would never hear a White Man complaining that his baby came out too white. Only for Blacks do we make EXCUSES for that kind of evil.

As the Writer SAPPHIRE says--"Opressed people become the WORST Oppressors".

I have witnessed it all over the world; all my life.

During the FEMINIST Movement---White Women did the same thing that WHITE GAYS do now---they expected their WHITE ISSUES as females to be the defining anthem of Women's Rights. BLACK WOMEN roundly rejected the White Women's Feminist movement just as people like Jasmyne are rejecting the White Gays like Andrew Sullivan (and rightfully so).

But ultimately, Proposition 8 was not solely about "gay marriage"...and true, Blacks DID NOT singlehandedly repeal gay marriage...

But there is something MUCH BIGGER here that is being lost.

Because I don't know anywhere else in America but the Black Community that a Minister can use the words "faggots" and "Carpet Munchers" in the pulpit on Sunday morning and it's OK.

Let me tell you something else:

I don't enjoy seeing Black men with White women...but I would NEVER vote to enact a law forbidding them marry. I would never be cruel or unkind to their children simply because I had issues with Old Boy choosing Snow Swiss over me.

YEARS AGO, when I first came on the scene....I started a CAMPAIGN against "Colorism."

You know what the first thing the Black Community did to me as a reaction? They accused me of being a "Lesbian."

I must be gay if I have a "complaint" against Black MEN and the way they shoot their music videos and the blatant colorism in their movies and magazines.

After they got done calling me a "lesbian"--they saw my great height and decided that I was a "transsexual" and that became their next attack.

All because I publicly called Black People on "colorism" there were major BLACK Bookstores (ESO WON and HUEMAN in NYC) that refused to carry my books. They claimed it was because I was "naked on the back of the book"---yet they had no problem stocking books that showed Black women with Blond Weaves and Fake Blue Eyes. Lil Kim could be accepted, but not an African Mother in the state of "Zarpuniss"---that offeneded them. AND GUESS WHAT? I must be a "lesbian" or a "Transsexual" or some kind of "Freak" to be so Unrecognizable to Good Ole' Black America.

I love Black People. No one can read my work or look at my life and claim that I don't love my people.

But Black folks are some fugged up wicked mofos sometimes. And they need to be CALLED ON IT!

And please be clear...

The reason I voted "NO" on Proposition 8 was not because I support Gay Marriage.

The reason I voted "NO" was because after being born in the #1 Satanic Nation of SUDAN...there's no way I will EVER support "CHURCH" dictating social policy.

I am a HUGE believer in the separation of Church of State...because I come from a country where it was ILLEGAL for my own father to have breakfast with me (because I'm a female, not a SON).

Many Black People have a huge problem with me, but let me tell you...I can't support this hateful SUPERSTITIOUS B.S. that our race has Co-opted.

White Man may be a "Devil"---but we've become living Reflection. We're just as devilish and rotten.

How dare we tell two grown human beings that they don't have the right to CHOOSE who they love.

How dare we IMPOSE our religious superstitious B.S. on their FINANCIAL Insurance Policies and their Legal Papers and PROHIBIT them from having access to fair protection and democracy just because we don't like gay people.

And let me tell you...there really are a lot of gay people I can't stand. MAINLY the ones who always try to make everyone else "gay" with the goddamned finger-pointing...their self-esteem being so low that they constantly have to render the whole world GAY and Repp'n thing...because they aren't brave enough to represent their damned self!

Homosexuals have self-hate like no other. Belive that.

But I wouldn't wish any harm on them. They're just people. And because I am so sensitive...I really can see how they suffer being "stifled" and "hemmed in". They don't have basic Civil Rights. Otherwise, they wouldn't fear people who are supposed to protect them--such as the Police.

In my heart, I truly, truly love ALL human beings.

God in heaven knows that I really do.

But I love my own, the Blacks, the most.

And we need to stop making excuses for Black Homophobia, 70% Fatherless rate, BET, Blond Weaves on 8 year olds, sorry ass rap videos.

Black people are NOT GOD and a whole LOT of them need to stop sitting up in church every sunday getting on God's nerves, because I'm so sick of Christianity and Islam I don't know what to do!

"All truth goes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Next, it is violently attacked; Finally, it is held to be self-evident." --Schopenhauer Why is the world so hell-bent on refusing to listen to what Nobel Peace Prize winning Biochemists and Classical Virologists have been trying to say for years that “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HIV”? Might it be that there is too much money to be made from killing people all over the world, mainly people of color and gay people? Might it be that those who think themselves philanthropists and who urge HIV testing, and more money for the distribution of deadly drugs (AZT) really harbor deep fear and hatred for gay people and thus justify their refusal to re-educate themselves to the truth of the matter, because they really do believe that homosexuality is an “abomination” to God? Do they think HIV is God’s punishment? Who among you will be brave enough to go against the grain and get the facts and expose these atrocities some call genocide? Well, I am one such person. I won’t stop until someone listens. There are many other like me who will never stop fighting to stop these mass murders and people are given the chance to stop living in fear of their sexuality. Someone must read my work and the tireless work of those like me. Read The Rainbow Warrior: Healing HIV Through Chakra Awareness, by Kabir Amen Ra Horakhty, found at: http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Warrior-Healing-Through-Awareness/dp/1440408440/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223646320&sr=1-2 A synopsis can be read at www.rainbowwarriorbook.com A panel of experts can be found by reading: www.virusmyth.com Dr. Kary Mullis www.aliveandwell.org Christine Maggiore www.aras.ab.ca David Crowe www.help4hiv.org Stephen Davis Help give people all over the world the opportunity to decide for themselves. I can be reached at rainbowwarrior7@yahoo.com Sincerely, Kabir

Ms. Cannick, I just viewed your debate with Mr. Besen and thought that you voiced what I have been telling friends and blogged about when the vote came in. While I am a resident of Chicago, I was aware that the Black american vote was taken for granted. There was no real outreach or education when it came to the Black, Hispanic and Asian communities in California. It is also my understanding that even if the majority of Black americans voted against Prop 8 it still would have passed. When are the supporters that were behind the campaign going to admit that their strategy was flawed and not inclusive and in need of retooling.

Stunned by Kola Boof's first response above -- one of the best I've read anywhere to Prop 8. I'm no march-out-in-front, rally-the-troops leader. I'm not. I never will be. I'm a retiring, shy librarian. I gave money to the official No on 8 campaign because -- other than tell my friends & family to vote against Prop 8 (which I did) -- what was I going to do? I didn't critique their strategy because jumping in and demanding changes was just not something I would have been capable of. I know there is a lot of resistance to (even hatred for) gay people in the African American community, but some of our staunchest allies have been African American leaders -- from the Rev Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Church in SF to Coretta Scott King (in 2004 she said, referring to a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution, "A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.") to Ron Dellums who as mayor of Oakland himself officiated at gay weddings when the California Supreme Court opened the door, among many many others gay & straight, famous or only known to their neighborhoods. What amazing resources to draw from! I allowed myself to imagine that the No on 8 campaign was taking advantage of such opportunities.

The life of President-elect Obama is a statement against California's Prop8. Suppose there was a proposition on the ballot in 1948,California banning interracal marriage. Also, suppose that this anti interracial measure was repeated in Virigina in 1967. For me, the words of Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. are instructive: "Injustice anywhere (against anyone) is a treat to justice everywhere". Regretfully, many of my fellow African Americans still don't understand or comprehend the powerful ramifications of Dr. King's words.

A group of suppressed people is gaining their confidence by suppressing another group of people. This is, the true source of Evil.

Many of us have by necessity been connecting the dots on civil/human rights while many others have not.

Chickens come home to roost on the gay house too. We have decades of disdaining, ignoring, manipulating or silencing the voices and spirit of blacks in the gay culture.

I haven't supported black gay entities with small donations as I could have. This blame is on my own head. Donating for the Obama presidency showed me how my little bit combines with the little bit from others to create a whole lot!

Once I start my little funding then I have a right to ask for a few less award banquets and cruises and a lot more ground game action.

Kola Boof nailed it! I agree with her on every point.

To Kola boof, After reading your screed, I think you are no better then the so called "bigots" you lambasted. With allies like you who needs enemies.

Bonjour, I am excited to browse the whole content on this blog post and am very glad and excited to observe that the blogger will continue to do a very great job here to put all the goodies and information at one place, I must tell others about this information with a shout out on my blog.