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Not hate speech: Doretha Fluornoy speaking at the party at the Hyatt Regency last night:"I felt free. This overwhelming sense of accomplishment, of satisfaction, of validation happened for me in there, in that room... It really reminds me of when I hear Martin Luther King speak -- of when I watched and read about the civil rights movement. Of when I watched the Watts riots in 1965. When black folks realized they had freedom in the world. As a black lesbian, I felt the same type of freedom a moment ago as I felt then." I think we will look back on this moment, and see the people who had the courage to do the right thing, and remember them... Comments 8:37:44 AM 
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Hate speech: It's hard to imagine I could become even more disappointed with an elected official, But Gov. Schwarzenegger's words over the weekend are just irresponsible. He cited "rioting" as being the reason to deny marriage to gay and lesbian people, when in fact, the whole process has been remarkably peaceful. How many other people stand in line, in the rain for more than 8 hours without incident?
He likened granting marriage licenses to granting licenses for assault rifles and illegal drugs. What on earth? Guns and drugs hurt people. Saying "I do" affirms people.
And the Governor should know better than most the power of words. He was born in Austria, a nation which learned harder than most the lesson of hate rhetoric in the 30s and 40s.
He is now an American, a nation where hate speech and racial violence were once so common that a popular song, Strange Fruit was written about the "black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze."
People get hurt when the awful rhetoric starts: is this a history lesson we want to repeat? I think the Governor is more interested in courting the right wing the Republican party than protecting the lives of California citizens who happen to be gay... |
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 1:12:13 PM
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