So, I like to stay abreast, a leg, & a thigh of current issues as well as my history...even if mainstream media & BET are bent on making me believe that slavery happened, Martin had some dreams, and now Frankie & Neffie are the great American Dream that yielded civil rights & 'ish.
One of our most proud Black leaders does not need to have his legacy besmirched, added to annals of unspoken, discredited Black leadership, all because one man is mad that he can't "marry" his old roommate from college.
To this I say: Mr. X's legacy & his great work will not be repealed if it comes to light that he was indeed gay/bisexual/bicurious. If anything, this new information about his life will offer more depth to the great diversity that is Black community, just as Tatchell notes.
The struggle by Black Americans for Civil Rights is not the same as the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) fight for the "right" to marry, and I am sorry for those that believe they are related in any way.
To this I say: No, the Black American struggle for civil rights is not the same as the LGBT struggle for civil rights (which by the way consists of more than me marrying my partner...please see DADT, ENDA, & DOMA). The two struggles originate from different worlds. BUT, civil rights are civil rights & they should be fought for by all of us for all of us by any means necessary. Please note that I, a GAY BLACK MAN, did not destroy or discredit Mr. X's phrase. Thanks & on to the next one.
Bottom line, Malcolm X was an imposingly powerful and brilliant man in life, and he has surpassed legendary status in death. No man can take that away from him. Peter Tatchell is the worst kind of scum bucket, bottom-feeding, troglodyte resembling trash!
To this I say: No. Not one person gay or straight can take Mr. X's legacy from him or from the Black community or America's history. However, calling Peter Tatchell a "scum bucket, bottom-feeding, troglodyte resembling trash!" (Note to Alston: 'faggot' would have been much easier to muster) is immature & offensive to say the least. He is offering--via sources that he has referenced--simply a different perspective. He & those that agree with him are simply proposing the possibility that history isn't always made apparent in its totality when we CHOOSE to lay it to rest. History has been revisited to reveal great things that have aided in our progression as a people. I'm sure Emmett Till's family appreciates our re-imagining & re-visiting of the events that led to his murder. Let's not forget that James Byrd name is on the first major piece of LGBT legislation signed by our government. As far as reports show, he did not identify as LGBT, but if we later find out that this is true, our history as Black people will be linked to yet another permeation of the Civil Rights Movement, today known as the Gay Rights Movement...so that people like you can feel comfortable in your own ignorance that blacks are the only people to require civil rights. Please note that blacks are still fighting the injustices of slavery & Jim Crow, so to deny someone else rights that you should readily know are precious and fundamental to human existence is inhumane.
As*hole. . .
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