Good morning gay America! I’m going to let my liberal media elite (ha) bias show and say, that like most Americans, today’s inauguration fills me with pride in my country and hope for its future. Even though I’m here on the West Coast, I have friends coming over in an hour to watch the election, a bottle of Veuve and lemon butter crepes to celebrate and despite all the mistakes Obama has made in including gays and lesbians in the pageantry of today, I am confident that he will be President to all Americans.
Case in point: A year ago yesterday, candidate Barack Obama went to Martin Luther King Jr’s Ebenezer Church and said:
“For most of this country’s history, we in the African-American community have been at the receiving end of man’s inhumanity to man. And all of us understand intimately the insidious role that race still sometimes plays – on the job, in the schools, in our health care system, and in our criminal justice system.
And yet, if we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that none of our hands are entirely clean. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true to King’s vision of a beloved community.
We have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them. The scourge of anti-Semitism has, at times, revealed itself in our community. For too long, some of us have seen immigrants as competitors for jobs instead of companions in the fight for opportunity. “
As a friend pointed out to me last night, most politicians have their speech for gays and lesbians, their speech for union workers, their speech for soccer Moms, etc… Barack Obama has just one speech, meant for all Americans. It means that he can go to the church that King built and say to them that they must check their own intolerance. It means we will not be told feelgood promises that can’t be kept. Can I guarantee Obama will come through on gay and lesbian rights? Of course not, but I believe he will.
But for a moment, let’s celebrate as Americans and remember that as Americans we all are hoping for a better country for us and for our children. The BBC has found an amazing clip of Dr Martin Luther King in 1964 prediciting an African-American president “in less than 40 years.”
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hells kitchen guy
“lemon butter crepe’s” what? Why is Queerty so dead set on misusing the poor apostrophe? So much sympathy for the downtrodden, and yet you continue to oppress apostrophes!
cruiser
This day is truly one of historical importance for ALL Americans regardless if you are a Jew, Muslim, Catholic, Gay, Straight, Transgendered, whatever, we are on the bring of History being rewritten. True the new President has slighted some of his supporters, whether intentional or unintended, we need to stand with and beside the man whom we chose to serve in the highest office in the land, to lead us in a new direction, to bring us back to our place at the Worlds table. Today brings a promise of a new hope, in the words of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, “I have a dream…” let us now all become apart of that dream and make it more, make it a reality, the resposibility now lies with us. We ARE the Dream!