Posts Tagged ‘civil rights’

A Sporting Event Between Hundreds of Nations Around the World Where Each Tries to Beat the Pants off the Other in Demonstrations of Human Strength and Prowess is NOT Political.

{ August 11, 2008 @ 9:08 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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At least, that’s what Bush would like you to think when he hears about people boycotting the Olympics in China due to their less than admirable record on human rights. That’s also the excuse given for the backlash received by two Olympians making a point regarding the racial division in America in 1968.

Let’s not forget that the US later boycotted the Olympics in 1980 in Russia for the USSR’s actions.

Oh, but the Olympics aren’t political.

I remember my dad telling me about these two guys. More power to them for doing what they did and braving the consequences. They are what make America great.

A Victory for Equal Rights

{ May 15, 2008 @ 4:37 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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The California Supreme Court declared Proposition 22, a ban on gay marriage passed in 2000, in violation of the state’s constitution.  This is a huge victory for Gay people and Californians, making this state only the second in the Union to define marriage between two people, rather than between one man and one woman.  Of course, the racist homophobes are having a field day, crying that the CA Supreme Court has violated the mandate of the people.  I say fuck them.  The only reason they are so involved in what happens in other people’s bedrooms is because they really need to get laid.

America Will Not be Satisfied

{ September 22, 2007 @ 10:58 am } · { Uncategorized }
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America will not be satisfied:

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

- August 28, 1963

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