As a Black man who grew up in a time in America when Blacks were stripped of rights and opportunities any time our culture, practices and beliefs were not in agreement with the agenda and politics of the majority, I don't see how the current push for LGBT rights is treating us any different.
Most Blacks hold to traditional family values and we resent how that view is automatically deemed as siding with Republicans, conservatives and right wing extremist. These family values and traditions were passed down through hundreds of years of ethnic and cultural practices that even defied the devastation of slavery.
Now, because we still hold to these cultural and ethnic practices and beliefs of heterosexual marriage and strong family ties, I fail to see how the LGBT community is responding to us any differently than the KKK, the eugenicist, the slave master, the brutal police officer or any other who uses their power and privilege to oppress the traditional Black family.
I don't need any one to bombard my post with screams of bigotry or hatred on my part. Get out of your feelings and emotions and PROVE to me how this movement is any different than any others that threaten to take away my job, my business, my ministry, my livelihood, and my reputation simply because I will not drop my African ethnic and cultural heritage to embrace and participate in the LGBT agenda.
PROVE to me how their agenda and practice of punishing those who disagree with them, is any different than what I have faced all of my life; because from my perspective, it's still the same as what I have dealt with ALL of my life.
Don't give me an emotional onslaught of calling me a bigot or homophobic. Try to walk ONE DAY in my shoes as a Black man in America. Until you can do that, keep your comments to yourself and PROVE ME WRONG.
My name is Christopher Green and I'm One Concerned Black Father
#iHaveValue #MyFamilyMatters #RespectMyCulture #RespectMyBeliefs
