Posted on 03/06/2015 6:17:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The fight for African-American rights and LGBT rights is 'in fact the same,' the vice president says.
Addressing a convention of LGBT activists in Washington on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden compared the 1965 demonstrations in Selma for African-American voting rights – the 50th anniversary of which is being commemorated this week – to the ongoing battle for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
“The same basic human rights were at stake when John [Lewis, an African-American civil rights leader who is now a U.S. congressman] led that march over that bridge,” Biden said, referring to the Edmund Pettus Bridge that became the site of a standoff during the Alabama demonstrations. “[Lewis] said last month, you cannot talk about breaking down the barriers between the races without having equality for everybody, including based on gender and sex orientation.”
Biden was the marquee speaker at the Human Rights Campaign’s spring convention in Washington, which gathers LGBT activists from across the country for training and strategy sessions. He went on to compare the Selma demonstrations to the protests prompted by a police raid a few years later at the Stonewall Inn, a popular bar among gay people at the time.
“Although the events of Selma and Stonewall were separate movements, they were in fact the same; they’re in fact the same basic movement,” Biden said...
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It’s nice that we have somebody like Rimshot Joe in Washington. Someone with a sense of humor to keep Americans from becoming too depressed while Barry is still on the throne.
So, Biden is saying that Blacks and Queers are the same?
“The fight for African-American rights and LGBT rights is ‘in fact the same,’ the vice president says.”
Wonder how blacks feel to have their heads stepped on while the panderers pimp their legacy for every other cause célèbre.
Can someone tell me what’s up with civil.rights for LGBT peoples??? What rights are LGBT peoples denied? Are they denied the right to vote, denied freedom of speech, discriminated against in housing public accommodations? Exactly how are LGBT peoples denied any rights????
shamelessly pandering his way to obscurity.
It never has been...and never will be...abnormal to be black.It always has been...and always will be...abnormal to be a pervert.
Thanks, Joe! You are, the Best of Breed.
Someone at the White House had a Selma Brain Seizure ,expect more from Obama Admin to try to sell this crap
One is born with a skin color.
One is not born L, G, B, or T.
John Lewis...Joe Biden...Are we sure it was Lewis that got hit in the head?
Conflating Selma with Stonewall?
“They gonna put y’all in chains!”
“OOOOOOoooooh! Sounds like fun!”
Sure, Joe. Go ask an American of African descent if his pigment is the same as putting another man’s penis in his mouth. Skin color is a TRAIT. Homosexuality is a BEHAVIOR.
Salma.....
Ovomit said the same thing today. It’s their new mantra, make the practice of Sodomy a race.
“Wonder how blacks feel to have their heads stepped on while the panderers pimp their legacy for every other cause célèbre.”
They probably feel pretty crappy about it, but they have been trained to focus their anger and resentment at the white man. And this POTUS has masterfully groomed that. He could barbeque their first born and they’d still vote for him.
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