For all the Racists, Bigots, and Homophobes

My note: I wrote this in response to the continual bantering against the need for hate crime legislation, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action programs, and anything against homosexuals spewed on the myriad of BBs on the web. I doubt any of them actually see themselves as racists, bigots, or homophobes, but their words speak for themselves.

Imagine for a moment that you are a wheelchair bound, Black transsexual. Despite your faithful attendance at your Church and the practicing of its magic that is supposed to help you through life, you feel the Church of Satan isn't enough to protect your from the inujustices of the world.

What injustices do you think they are? What do you think are appropriate remedies to those injustices?

If you're mind is a bit too small too imagine a handicapped, transsexual, Black Satanist, which most likely it probably is, then pick one of those minority groups and pretend for a moment you aren't a White, middle class suburbanite, but are Black or handicapped or gay/transgendered or a member of a religion other than a mainstream Christian religion (Satanist, Wiccan, Islamist, Hindu - pick one, any one).

And, yes, we all know you are at least White. We can tell by what you write with 99.9% certaintity.

Now picture yourself as a minority:

As you are wheeling yourself to your Church, a group of teenage thugs tease and taunt you because you are worthless cripple sucking off of society while everyone else has to work hard. Since they never hit you, the most they get is a slap on the wrist for juvenile delinquency. Since they targetted you for being in a wheelchair, do you think their punishment should have been more severe (hate crime)? What about if you came home from Church and found your door spray painted with "Satan ain't watching you, but we are. Burn at the stake you witch!" The vandals are caught and charged with criminal trespassing (a misdemeanor) and vandalism (another misdemeanor). They're ordered to pay for a new door and sentenced to 80 hours community service, typical sentence for first time misdemeanor offenses. Should their punishment have been more severe? Do you really believe the teen's parents (those perfect role models who raised and taught them to act that way) will mete out a more severe punishment to teach them a lesson in tolerance?

Oh, yeah, that's right. A reminder to you tunneled-vision practioners of hate. Religion is protected under hate crimes legislation, including your Christian religions. So is disability and race. Sexual orientation/identity isn't always a protected status.

Being Black, how would you describe your quality of life, especially when you are trying to navigate in a White world? You're an inner city Black youth. You graduate high school in the top third of your class. What do you think are your chances of being accepted to a good-named university? (We know Harvard is out of the question.) Let's say you work hard and through scholarships and affirmative action programs, you manage to tweak your way through a community college. How far behind are you compared to your White, suburbanite peers? How much harder will you have to work to attain a middle management level job than your White suburbanite peers - the ones who teased you on the way to Church? How many Black CEOs of fortune 500 companies are there?

Being gay/transgendered, how safe do you feel being yourself in public? Dare to hold your boyfriend's/girlfriend's hand at the mall while shopping together? How about hanging up pictures of you and your "other" in your cube? Talk about your vacation gay cruise? Do you think your company can fire you because you don't fit the "family image" the company is trying to project? How about being evicted from your apartment because the complex is family-orientated with children running around and you make your neighbors nervous?

Of course, you can't answer these questions. No one really expects you to answer them. Discrimination doesn't happen and when it does, it's all the social programs discriminating against the Whites. Affirmative action deprives qualified Whites an equal opportunity to acceptance in a school or a job. Hate crime legislation makes crimes against minorities more important than crimes against Whites. And anything that gives homosexuals a fair shake in the world is forcing acceptance of something Christians are strongly opposed.

See the trend? If something threatens the secure world of White Christians, then it must be bad.

Be sure to write your own bill to Congress in support of gay marriage...