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[phreddd]

Note to Gay America: racist is the new skunk spray, NOT the new black.

http://rodonline.typepad.com/rodonline/2008/11/n-word-and-raci.html (Headline: N-Word Hurled at Blacks During Westwood Prop 8 Protest)

Comments

[hakatrip.livejournal.com]

Wow. How absolutely terrifying and pathetic.

I have many black friends, and have been getting close to one in particular. He maintains that now that Obama has won, there will be a significant backlash against blacks. I am afraid that he is right.

How cringing it is for me to see such hate and intolerance being openly expressed in my birthstate. CA often leads the way for the rest of the nation in social norms and legislation. I am deeply disappointed, and so are many of my CA friends--- married heterosexuals who are absolutely pissed that Prop 8 passed.

My friend has recently had to push back against the racism he experiences at work here in MN. How much worse will it get, when that's the baseline he deals with?

[mellowtigger]

I don't think that Obama's presidency is going to create new racists. I do think, though, that it's going to expose (perhaps dramatically) what racism is already lurking about.

I don't mean just the white southerners. I also mean black protestants deciding that queer folk are a religious issue rather than a civil rights issue. I also mean us queer folk exposing some of our own messed up ideas about blacks, hispanics, jews, catholics, and muslims.

It's all there. I can only hope that bringing it out to talk about it will help to eventually relinquish it.

[hakatrip.livejournal.com]

"The only way out is through."