Thursday, November 13, 2008

I Know This Is Late, But Here Goes...

What if everybody around you had been born with only 3 limbs, and you were born with 4? Then people told you that if you wanted to be "normal" you'd saw one of your limbs off? You'd probably balk at that idea, right?

Let me give you a more down to earth example. What if at age 10 someone took you from your home with your loving parents and gave you to another family, a family that lived right down the street. Your parents were good and kind to you, gave you all the love in the world, but someone of authority said you didn't belong together and gave you to a family right down the street. You're in a position where you can literally see your parents everyday, but you're not allowed to live with them or interact in any significant way with them.

At what lengths would you go to make your loved ones happy? How far would you go to "save face" and to hold a position of esteem in your community? Would you change your life completely? Commit fraud by intentionally deceiving an innocent person? Would you lie about who you are essentially?

People make insane choices like these everyday, and are forced to live in strange and precarious circumstances. They do it to BELONG and live in a society that needs them and benefits from their creativity and overall contributions. The ones that decide enough is enough and make the decision to live as "others" in our society, regardless of achievement, are treated as though their happiness is somehow predicated on whether or not you know "how to explain it to the children".

Meanwhile, Africans keep acting like animals, killing each other over distorted ideals of respect, lying down and fucking everybody and anybody, making gotdamn babies out of wedlock over and over again, becoming grandparents in their late 30's, then having the nerve to quote fuckin' Bible verses to justify denying people their happiness.

I hold special scorn for the people who funded the "marriage is one man-one woman" initiative, who started their religion practicing polygamy and to this day don't realize that every ritual they perform in their church is derived from Mas.onic rites, courtesy of founder Joseph Smith. For these people and their God-sanctioned underwear and their 1978 decision to allow Black people to enter Heaven, you know you can suck my entire cock. If you're Black and you cast your lot with these motherfuckers, ask yourself when they've ever been on the right side of history.

Man, fuck any and everybody that voted to deny gay people the right to get married. I'm serious. Fuck you.

KZ

12 comments:

nikki said...

AMEN. shit, ain't else for me to say here. i love you for mentioning it because i never thought i'd see a straight black man be mad enough to write an entry about it. props to you, zed.

Knockout Zed said...

@Nikki
Honestly, I just couldn't believe the glee coming from people from DENYING someone rights that won't change their own lives one iota. That's fucked up. We need to stay out of people's business on the whole. And to think Black people coming out to vote for a progressive politician would vote for this bullshit out of some fealty to tradition or "biblical teachings" when they don't adhere to that shit in their own lives is beyond me.

KZ

1969 said...

I wholeheartedly agree with your stance.

Props to you for blogging about it.
Our laws were written to evolve. Times have changed, our society has changed. Our laws need to change to include all of the people not someof the people or the people like us.

Monie said...

Word! On this whole post! I can't lie...my glee over Obama was sorta diminished when I heard about Prop 8.

The Second Sixty-Eight said...

Man I am SO with you! How the fuck are they gonna vote do DENY people rights?!?!? Bad enough folk had to vote to give them those rights in the first place.

The thing that really fucks me up is that it was in liberal front running California!!!

aquababie said...

let me cosign with you! there is no limit on who you love or how you love. folk need to get out of other folk business and take care of their own.

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Miz JJ said...

Preach!

How can you vote to limit the rights of a minority group and feel good about yourself? That ish is f*cked up. Good on you for calling people out with this post.

Anonymous said...

Broke it down so it will forever be broke! Fug 'em.

La Diva Latina said...

Yeah, that is just wrong! I love the 3 limbs analogy tho...
Thanks for the pix link. Amazing! Congrats again, thanks for sharing...

BZ said...

HALLELUJAH!

Thank you so much for saying that. Seriously.

Mr.Slish said...

Uuum I really don't care either way....Like u said it won't change my life one bit....I'm still broke....lol