Fotolog.net provides an outlet where I feature photos that I feel can stand on their own, something I rarely do on this blog. Hey - where are all the other Black photobloggers/fotologgers? Yes, besides Tracy (who I hope returns from her hiatus very soon) ...
Today I planned on going to two different rallies regarding same-sex marriage: a rally of Latino Christians against it at the Bronx Courthouse and a one of Black people supporting it at City Hall. Things didn't work out quite the way I wanted and I'm a little emotionally exhausted, but it's okay - the pictures really tell the story.
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... feel like it's rainin' all over the world ...
[ Kenyon forwarded this excellent essay to me last night. I do support same-sex marriage, but I also share many of the views that Kenyon presents in his essay. Here's another voice on this issue of same-sex marriage that needs to be heard. ]
I was in Atlanta on business when I saw the Sunday, Feb. 29th edition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution that featured as its cover story the issue of gay marriage. Georgia is one of the states prepared to add some additional language to its state constitution that bans same sex marriages (though the state already defines marriage between a man and a woman, so the legislation is completely symbolic as it is political). What struck me about the front page story was the fact that all of the average Atlanta citizens whom were pictured that opposed gay marriages were black people. This is not to single out the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as I have noticed in all of the recent coverage and hubbub over gay marriage that the media has been real crucial in playing up the racial politics of the debate. For example, the people who are in San Francisco getting married are almost exclusively white whereas many of the people who are shown opposing it are black. And it is more black people than typically shown in the evening news (not in handcuffs). This leaves me with several questions: Is gay marriage a black/white issue? Are the Gay Community and the Black Community natural allies or sworn enemies? And where does that leave me, a black gay man, who does not want to get married?
The 29 days of Black History Month ended with a fantastic weekend! I was in the street every night from Thursday to Sunday hanging out with the folks from here and yonder and I had a great time!
Something else has ended, too - I finally got a new camera! YAY!
