Activist makes South uneasy with inequality

The Detroit News ^ | Monday, April 19, 2004 | Deb Price

[presidio9]

Back in 1955, Linda Ketner was just 4, but she could read the

[presidio9]

You can reach Deb Price at (202) 906-8205 or dprice@detnews.com.

[Mike Darancette]

In the North water fountains, restaurants and neighborhoods were not marked, but if you crossed an invisible line you were beat up.

[presidio9]

This article is yet another attempt on the part of the buttsex crowd to equate gay marriage with the segregation. They are going to end up shooting themselves in the foot with this one. Even the dumbest Americans can eventually smell pandering.

[I still care]

A few observations.

Racism is an abomination. People not being able to state their beliefs is the same.

There have been instances where Christians and pro-family people have erected billboards or taken out advertisements that homosexuality is not a good lifestyle. They have not been allowed to do so, and have been sued. I guess only one point of view is tolerable. That is facism.

I don't know the mindset of blacks in the South in the 60's and 50's, but when this white person drank from the fountain, maybe THEY thought she had nerve, drinking from their fountain. Maybe they didn't want to drink from a fountain some uppety white person drank from who didn't know her place. I really have no idea. But that is the first thing I thought of, reading the article.

[Pete]

Zero Tolerance for Intolerance

In other words, you can believe anything you want as long as you agree with me.

[Lee'sGhost]

Maybe now she'll move north where racism still runs rampant.

[Lee'sGhost]

Maybe now she'll move north where racism STILL runs rampant.

[Lee'sGhost]

"In the “Triad” — Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point — 50,000 drivers a day are seeing “Gay or Straight ... all Americans deserve equal protection under the law.” "

And that what they have. What's the point, other than exposing little kids to the world of gayness?

[Lee'sGhost]

"In the “Triad” — Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point — 50,000 drivers a day are seeing “Gay or Straight ... all Americans deserve equal protection under the law.” "

And that's what they have. What's the point, other than exposing little kids to the world of gayness?

[eyespysomething]

You know, I tolerate people by not beating the crap out of them.

I refuse to accept their behavior though.

[presidio9]

Instead of posting knee-jerk reactions, how about actually reading the article? It wasn't about racism.

[FormerLib]

Could you imagine celebrating a friend's decision to take on a mistress?

Neither could I, but that's pretty much what they ask us to do, "celebrate" that which we find to be morally reprehensible.

Wonder if she preaches that we need to be "tolerant" of bigoted Klan members, eh?

[Lee'sGhost]

Instead of posting knee-jerk reactions to what you think are knee-jerk reactions, how about actually reading the post. I read the article and the headline. I first responded to the racism part (which IS there, in case you posted the article without reading it) and then I responded to the gay part.

[presidio9]

It always makes me chuckle when Southerners get overly defenseive about their racial history. The aricle made no distinction between northern or southern racial history. It was about a dyke who grew up as an activist in SC. The north south distinctions are all in your head. Deb is a big time liberal carpet-licker. She'd be the first one to agree with you that racism remains a big problem in the north.

BTW, the only true racial discrimination that still exists anywhere in this country is by colleges against white and asian students.

[LTCJ]

It was the first positive thing I've heard since I admitted to myself that I'm gay.

Honey, if you're sexually active at 17, you need to admit to yourself that you're a slut.

[Lee'sGhost]

It always makes ME chuckle when people project their biases against Southerners to account for their mistakes. Take for instance the fact that the article did not have to make a distinction between racism in the north and south because it was implicitly defined in the headline where it says "South," and because the the first anecdote is about a city in the SOUTH. In addition to that, she did NOT grow up in SC -- that's where she "came out" in 1993 (no, they didn't still have separate water fountains in SC in 1993) -- she grew up in North Carolina. Sheez, and you accuse me of not having read the article.

And then the icing on this whole stinking cake you created is to make a condescending remark about Southerner's sensitivity on racism. The fact is, you're right about that. Southerners shouldn't be sensitive about being looked down on by people who make such shallow comments or by reporters who say things like "Even the South is changing," because the people saying them are just simply too stupid to be considered a bother.

[Redbob]

Well put!

I was raised in the South - South Alabama - but I don't recall anyone - not any decent person anyway - making cruel or demeaning or "racist" remarks about Negroes (as they were called then) until I first went up North.
THAT's where large numbers of people hated and feared black folks, not home in Alabama.

[Flux Capacitor]

----Activist makes South uneasy with inequality----

Don't you love this? Don't you love the not-so-subtle but oh-so-reasonable parallel drawn between opposition to gay marriage and support of reviving Jim Crow? Don't you love it that this columnist smugly singles out the South, and the South alone, as a bastion of backwoods intolerance, where all of you Southern hillbillies spend your days chasing down homosexuals with baseball bats and rakes; where all of you drooling, mouth-breathing yokels need to have your minds put right by a bunch of billboards erected by the more enlightened among us -- assuming you can even read them?

"Even the South is changing, thanks to people like her." Well, thank God for that! Glad you RacistSexistBigotedHomophobe Southerners are starting to get your acts together! Maybe someday, all of you shoeless, tobacco-spitting hicks south of the Mason-Dixon line will even be sophisticated enough to live in a peaceful, tolerant paradise like Detroit!

-Dan

[presidio9]

Well, if you want to stress over whether liberals remember segregation, I guess that is your right, but the real issue here is not a distinction between the north and the south, but the perceived similarities between racisim and "homophobia."