Black Oppression and the LGBTQ community.

Oppression towards a minority. Denied freedom and rights. "Unnatural, inhuman." 

Both things to describe the treatment of the African Americans for so many years, and things that describe the rising awareness and continuing disapproval of the LGBTQ community.

The actions that the powerful white man made out of fear resemble the actions that are taken against the LGBTQ community by the fearful heterosexual homophobic men and women of America, and the world. 

Denied rights to vote? Denied rights to marriage? How is it so hard to see that the mistakes we made before, are being made again, but to a different group of people? Even though both are in the past, the scars from those cuts remain and wait still to be fully healed. 

After years of discrimination and hate, we realized that the black community was as equal to all of the others. Did their skin determine who they where as a whole? No. We realized they were people too, and that they had always been. No man should should be ashamed of their skin colour. It seems so obvious now. But why isn't it just as obvious that a man who loves a man is still human, still equal? 

We're repeating the past. The mistakes we are making now are the same ones we're embarrassed about from back then. We're all human. Men, women, gay, straight, white, black... We're all equal.

The names we call them. The "n word" that is frowned upon now, is equivalent to calling someone a "faggot". It's unnacceptable.

It's inhumane.  

We are all people. We all rely on the same things to feel complete. Love and acceptance. Don't we all deserve it? 

If you don't approve of it, that's your respected opinion. But being civil isn't hard to do. When you have a coworker you don't agree with, you aren't openly rude to them. You should be kind and respectful always. 

The new law letting same sex couples marry each other is a leap in the right direction. We have made so many of those leaps for African American equality in the past and even currently. Let's continue leaping. 

"Just because a law has been passed doesn't mean the issue is settled. Let's face it, blacks were freed from slavery and granted full citizenship a long time ago, but did that end discrimination?"

                         -Ryan Trimble