The Mo’Kelly Report

This is a gay/white concern, the black people I know are completely against this.I wouldn’t go as far to say that there will be a civil war but as stated the majority is against “same sex marriage”. Too Zack’s point I hear more concern about how to stop street culture from influencing our youth. We are losing too much intellectual capital to the street.

No one ever accused our Mayor CrackBarry of failing to know how to motivate and suck-up-to his voting block.

I take exception to Zack suggesting that no gays are engaged in the urban blight problems. I have been here in DC in a ghetto neighborhood where I lived serving as a neighborhood commissioner who was very engaged in reversing the deterioration of the housing stock, the fight against the drug dealer’s invasion and the necessity of making social net services available to single mothers barely making enough to survive and feed their children.

Admittedly not terribly common but, let’s face facts, the gay community has had quite a battle against being beaten in street hate crimes because some brutish redneck hates fags and fighting for the right to be not fired or not evicted merely because the landlord or employer suddenly decides they don’t want gays around. Case in point – consider Cracker Barrel which for decades had a published HR policy statement that anyone even suspected of being gay or lesbian was to be immediately fired regardless of a fine job performance.

This kind of stuff is why it is important not to make civil rights subject to a popularity (voting) contest. If the 1964 Civil Rights Act had been placed on the national ballot, I’m pretty darned sure it would never have passed and that would have been shameful. If Loving v. Virginia had never been decided by the Supreme Court, it is unlikely we would have dedicated marriages of inter-racial couples.

Cheers to the author for this posting.