SCOTUS - Colored People Move To The Back of The Bus

When the Supreme Court of the United States issued its rulings on DOMA and Proposition 8, immediately my phone began to ring.  Reporters from local television news outlets and newspapers, were calling and wanting to know my reaction. 

I believe there is a difference between a reaction and a response. A reaction is an immediate emotional act that does not include reasoning; however a response is a reasoned reply that includes thinking the matter through.  So my immediate reaction to the SCOTUS rulings, as I stated to one reporter, was that I will continue to pray for our nation. 

However I would like to share my response.  It seems to me that the SCOTUS rulings on Affirmative Action; on Voting Rights; on DOMA and on Proposition 8 reveal a major shift in what we have known for decades as Civil Rights.  

In my opinion, African-Americans have once again been moved to the back of the bus.  In my opinion, the move is a result of poor leadership in the African-American community. It seems to me that Black Politicians, Black Ministers, and Black Civic leaders really thought that by accepting and acknowledging Gay Rights as a Civil Right, it would somehow equate to less discrimination against Blacks and other minorities.  

It seems to me that the President of the United States put his full support behind the Gay Rights Agenda and openly championed the cause of Homosexual Marriage rights and abandoned the DOMA, while at the same time he and his administration remained silent (at least publicly) in their support of Affirmative Action and Voting Rights.

It seems to me that the Gay Rights Advocates used the Black Community once again.  The Gay Rights Proponents propositioned the Black leadership in our communities, using the "discrimination card" which cause many of the Black leaders to jump on the bus of discrimination.  They bought lie and drank the cool-aide  that claimed Gay Rights was indeed a Civil Right and that discrimination against any group is discrimination against all minorities. 

The hope, it seems was that as the Black Community delivered its influence to support the Gay Agenda, that those Gay Rights Advocates and Activist with all their political; public relations; and financial persuasion would be able to deliver and help bring pressure to bear that would influence outcome of Affirmative Action and Voting Rights Act.  And did they; they stole the show and gave the SCOTUS a great record of supporting Civil Rights and Black folk cannot cry discrimination!

When it all came down, those same Gay Rights Advocates did not deliver their political pull; they did not deliver their organizational pull; they did not deliver their financial support; they did not deliver their public relations pull and they did not deliver their most potent weapon, the POTUS.  In short the Gay Rights Advocates left the Black community at the altar and walked away with the ring of Civil Rights!

So my response can be summed up in the words of Denzel Washington, as he played the role of Malcolm X in the move by the same name.  Once again the Black Community has been "had; been took; you been hood-winked; bamboozled; led astray; run amuck..." and now we are no longer the leader in the Civil Rights movement, we have been moved to the back of the bus.