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If the Earth
were only a few feet in
diameter, floating a few feet above
a field somewhere, people would come
from everywhere to marvel at it. People would
walk around it marveling at its big pools of water,
its little pools and the water flowing between the pools.
People would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding
it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would
marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the
ball, and at the creatures in the water.
The people would declare
it as sacred because
it was the only one, and they would protect
it so that it would not hurt. The ball would be the
greatest wonder known, and people would come to
pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know
beauty and to wonder how it could be. People
would love it, and defend it with their lives
because they would somehow know that
their lives, their own roundness, could
be nothing without it. If the
Earth were only a few
feet in diameter.
-author unknown
My thoughts and opinions
change from time to time…
I consider this a necessary consequence of having an open mind.
This weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point in
time snapshot and manifestation of the various memes running
around my brain, and as such any thoughts and opinions expressed
within out-of-date posts may not the same, nor even similar,
to those I may hold today.
Sunday, June 14, 2009, 3:33 PM
Homosexuality - Taboo In The African American Culture
Even with all the progress we've made in the LGBT community, homosexuality is still very much a taboo subject among African Americans.
Why is this? Why must we as black people, make things so hard for ourselves?
Especially our black males. It seems that it is a sign of weakness to be a black gay man. Shunned by society and worse yet, their own families.
Blacks would rather hide our own children, or disown them rather than embrace them.....and love them unconditionally.
Though......I thought that's the way things were supposed to happen. Isn't that.......normal?
I couldn't imagine going through something like that. To be despised from the very people who are supposed to bring me comfort. That share the same blood as I do.
It saddens me that there are so many black lesbians and gays out there, alone in the world....without a family, simply because of who they love and choose to spend their life with.
I'm truly grateful that the people who I cherish the most, love me regardless of whose in my bed. Anyone else, well....they have to deal with that. Not me.
We as a people have got to do better. We need to realize that homosexuality exists and there are gays and lesbians in our own families. They are not to be thrown away or forgotten, but embraced, cherish, and loved.