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"I am Gay" billboards ignite controversy among African Americans
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| Jan. 15, 2011
| Paul Nelson
Posted on 01/17/2011 9:16:16 AM PST by scottjewell
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To: EyeGuy
If they wanted to put up billboards in the black community to promote keeping families together, the message would be about staying with the baby mama, not siring kids and running off or getting run off.
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:33:12 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
To: DocH
How about...
This is where I PRANCE... OKAY-HEY?!!
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:36:12 AM PST
by
DocH
(Official Right-Wing Extremist Veteran Seal Of Approval)
To: a fool in paradise
The impression from those billboards is that ALL young black males are homosexuals.
well that is a way to kill off attendance at basketball games.
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:36:32 AM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: scottjewell
Ironically missing is the billboard showing a cemetery filled with the disproportionate number of black homosexual AIDS cases:
I am gay
And here’s where I lay
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:37:06 AM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
(The Rodney King Riots: Courtesy of ABC, CBS, NBC & CNN)
To: DocH
To: scottjewell
There are a total of 18 billboards in Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer and Montgomery counties along with ads on buses and bus shelters, said Peter Constantakes, spokesman with the state Department of Health which gave $50,300 to the campaign. State funds used for a "religious" message ("This is where I pray.")? Maybe Councilman Allen could use their own "separation of church and state" technique against this.
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:37:52 AM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: a fool in paradise
That’s an excellent point, and one I make here often. It is THE fundamental problem in the black community. I won’t go down the road of whose fault that is...ahem PERSONAL responsibility...ahem....
I must be off form today, I don’t know why I didn’t think of that.
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:38:37 AM PST
by
EyeGuy
(RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
To: a fool in paradise
Rom 1:32
Although they know Gods righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:39:04 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: a fool in paradise
I am GAY
And this is TINA FEY
To: scottjewell
How about a hospital bed, with a man connected to ghastly looking machines, with tubes sticking in his arms, with the caption "I am homosexual (not gay), and this is how I die...from AIDS."
Then, a picture of hell, the man being burned alive in hellfires, with the caption "I am homosexual, and this is where I will spend eternity, after I die from AIDS."
That would be more to the point, I think.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:41:02 AM PST
by
wku man
(Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
“How about:
I am GAY
And this is where I SASHAY. “
OOOO, you got me with that one.
Add a nice graphic of one of the prancers at the Gay Parade, complete with feather boa.
That would go over like a lead balloon.
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:41:23 AM PST
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: Persevero
I think the worst part of all this, is that it is an attempt to make forays and inroads into the one community which still holds to the old view of homosexuality. If these billboards were saying, “I am disabled, and this is where I play”, or “I say No to drugs, and this is where I pray”, that would just be a typical do-gooders campaign. This, however, is an attempt to make these folks “progressive up” on an issue which is foreign to them.
To: scottjewell
Having a man on the down low has had a lot of women contract aids because they didn’t know this about their husbands. This is a problem in the black community. What would really help would be some famous black men on the down low coming forward. Can you think of any very well known national figure who is pretending to be fully straight but is sexually very gay, with many encounters with men, who could explain to the black community about his shameful double life?
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:47:10 AM PST
by
Yaelle
To: scottjewell
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:49:08 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Red_Devil 232
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:50:09 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: Red_Devil 232
Whoa! Gold Star for the Red Devil!!
To: Red_Devil 232
Did thomeone thay gay?
In the committee room is where I thay!
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:52:20 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: scottjewell
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:52:20 AM PST
by
rlmorel
("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
To: scottjewell
Fags must recruit because they cannot reproduce.
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:54:28 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: scottjewell
Homophobia does not cause gay men to get AIDS, it’s their lifestyle which you are promoting.
“I thought it would be useful and pertinent to have the campaign in the Capital Region because of the numbers for HIV and AIDS among gay black males have has risen significantly,” she said. “You have to start from a place of respect in order to address the stigma and homophobia of being a black gay man.”
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posted on
01/17/2011 9:54:42 AM PST
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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