Before Barack Obama had a chance to take HRCâs podium, the organizationâs president Joe Solmonese hit MSNBC to defend our commander-in-chief. This would be mostly forgettable â Solmoneseâs love fest with the president is hardwired and expected â if it werenât for National Equality March organizer Cleve Jones to counter Gay Inc. with ⊠oh, what do you call those things? ⊠facts.
âI respectfully disagree with Joe,â says Jones about Obamaâs supposed commitment to the Gs. And heâs right.
Itâs becoming comical to watch HRC come to the defense of the White House. The organizationâs collusion with the DNC and Obama has yielded almost zero progress. (HRC will, at least internally, claim credit for ENDAâs upcoming passage. Many smaller gay rights organizations would beg to differ.)
Jones argues itâs time to get lawmakers on the record whether they support gay rights, even if that means bringing a bill to a vote that gets shot down. Solmonese wants some more holding time if Obama and his party peers can get things done. Thatâs a nice sentiment, but that strategy hasnât worked yet. Should we expect anything different from Obama?
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QL Dallas
Lots of white men clapping. One black man speaking. Same speech.
Ian
HRC: The new LCR (Log Cabin Republicans)
Washington
Chris Matthews is hard to watch. He allows for about 3 words per each of his questions.
Kris
All around the mulberry bush, the monkey and the weasel…pop goes the weasel
Brian
Joe Solmonese. Poor little Cinderella. Cinderella! Turn out the votes for Obama! NO! you can’t use your sister’s hairbrush. Now can’t you see mother is busy? Cinderella! Turn out your friends in the 2010 miderm elctions! NO you can’t go to the ball, you have to clean the chimney! Cinderella! Make sure you make your friends vote in the 2012 election for me! NO! Can’t you see mother is still busy?
schlukitz
Chris Matthews is hard to watch. He allows for about 3 words per each of his questions.
Tell me all about it. I wanted to pick up a shoe and sling it at my computer screen as I watched him.
He’s so full of questions (among other things), that he appears not to even be interested in hearing the answers.
I get that he is one of those people who loves the sound of his own voice and the sense of importance that it gives him. đ
schlukitz
Lots of white men clapping. One black man speaking. Same speech.
I caught that too, Dallas.
Ian
“Lots of white men clapping. One black man speaking. Same speech.”
It’s not the people’s fault in that room if there are too many African American gays who choose to live on the “down-low” and thus won’t be ‘out’ in public forums. And besides, the ‘one black man’ there as you put it was in possession of the highest leadership position with the nation, something that no one else in that room could lay claim to.
schlukitz
Aside from sounding like a racist, Ian, what is your point???
Joshy
Joe Solmonese = sleazy, sleazy, sleazy.
Ian
RE: Schlukitz
How is it ‘racist’ to point out that President Obama was the most powerful person in that room bar none? Oh, you meant the comment about groups who live on the “down low” to which of course AA’s are only one, but by no means am I stereotyping to indicate all. However, I have lived in Detroit for over 5 yrs and believe me, there are MANY African American gays in and around that city who choose to live in the closet, even are heterosexual in their PUBLIC romantic relationships, but often have secret man-on-man sex on a frequent basis. That’s simply a FACT, and a correlation of fact that I used in terms of the HRC dinner which was in Washington DC, another city with a very high African American populace, which is ALSO known to have a fair number of black “down low” men hiding in the greater AA community.
I’m sorry, but I refuse to romanticize any subset of a group to make others feel more comfortable, I base my statements on the statistical reality of population subsets and social norms within those subsets, and how this may have impacted the appearance, or lack thereof, of AA gay men of color at the HRC dinner.
Ted B. (Charging Rhino)
It’s now demonstrated that Roy Kohn was right about the liberal G/L communities clout…or lack there-of.
DEREK WASHINGTON
“No. 8 · Ian
“Lots of white men clapping. One black man speaking. Same speech.”
It’s not the people’s fault in that room if there are too many African American gays who choose to live on the “down-low” and thus won’t be ‘out’ in public forums. And besides, the ‘one black man’ there as you put it was in possession of the highest leadership position with the nation, something that no one else in that room could lay claim to.”
I know from personal experience that one of those white men had an exceptional chance recently in front of 250,000 to feature some Black men who were ready and willing to step up and he fought it every step of the way.
You figure out which one I’m talking about.