I found a story on a site and i just had to post it here. It's by an activist named Sidney Brinkley. She has some very powerful points and I don't want to push my opinions on you guys too much. I would like to know what you guys think. DO you think she has a valid point and the subordination of African-Americans even within the gay community will continue because there isn't any involvement on our part? Do you think that we are the ones that don't present ourselves? Is it just the way things are and in a couple of decades we'll catch up (don't criticize me for saying that, i'm just speaking as the devils advocate)

Please let me know, leave your comments!

The state of the Black Union is rather perilous at the moment: HIV/ AIDS and other health issues. Social injustice. Entire neighborhoods under siege by drugs and violence. A public education system that is failing Black children at every level. Gaining the “Right to Marry” will change none of that.

The days of allowing “their” issues to suck up our oxygen, take our resources, sap our energy, dictate our focus and ultimately waste our time with their multi-million dollar fiascos, must end. I’m taking care “my” business and let the White Gay movement take care theirs.

Read more of her ideas after the jump.

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And take care of it they will.

I have no doubt they will get their marriage rights eventually, either through the ballot or a favorable court decision. Afterwards, scores of White Lesbians and Gay men will disappear into the status quo, never to be seen or heard from again, as they become full-fledged White Americans.

And as a final act they can co-opt that line from the old Negro spiritual that Dr. King spoke of on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial 46 years ago, one that even Black Americans have yet to realize:

Free at Last. Free at last. Thank God almighty I’m free at last.

Check out the full story here