Now You Too Can Talk To Your Favorite Negros About LGBT Rights
Cast from the film Boyz In The Hood
Despite the sarcasm in our headline (tee hee) we think this is a good thing. GLAAD recently debuted an online PDF brochure titled LGBT Equality With African Americans. The brochure is an attempt to help those who are not, we’re assuming African American to have successful LGBT equality conversations with black folks. Come to think of it, this little handbook could help out some over zealous bros ‘n’ sis’s out there as well. Yea, why don’t everyone take a gander at it. The tips we think are on point.
No, blacks don’t like it when gay people compare their equality battle to the black civil rights battle. And that’s just real. The term “civil rights” has a different meaning in African American culture than outside of it. We don’t own it, we just think different things when the term is uttered in our presence—like things exclusively pertaining to the black civil rights movement.
However, blacks tend to respond very favorably when approached with the term “discrimination” in discussions about LGBT rights. They “we” also respond very favorably to the term “equal rights” when approached in discussion about LGBT rights.
We like this brochure and its suggestions because in reading them as African Americans ourselves we’re agreeing pretty much with everything noted here. No, don’t try to change a black person’s views on the meaning of civil rights. You won’t get anywhere. Maybe cussed out, perhaps. But there’s no swinging the pendulum on that. Far easier to talk about hate crimes, job discrimination and being shit on by the man than it is to convince black folks that their precious “civil rights” is inclusive to all. Horrors! That can’t be!
Anyway, good job GLAAD. Here’s the brochure:
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