Posted in comments to Huffington Post today

I felt inspired and posted a comment under a story about Mike Huckabee's comments on The View this AM.

I don't like how this is being used as a wedge to drive between the black community and the LGBT. What about all the black LGBT people? Does discrimination have to be mutually exclusive? How many of us LGBT people "passed" out of fear and intimidation of being found out for who we truly are?

I was in the dept. store on saturday after the rally here in an AA neighborhood. While I was at the counter, a middle aged AA woman was just glaring at me, and my friend...I kept thinking to myself, what is going through her mind? I have no idea, But I had on a teeshirt that said "Stand up to H8"...Did she not agree?

Since the election , many times when I see an AA woman, I can't help thinking to myself" What have I ever done to you that you should vote against me?".>I know that is not a totally rational thought, but if i was to give in to my lower nature, you see where I"m going> Unfortunately, a lot of people too often give in to their lower natures. and that's the problem...The gays and the black community should be allies, not enemies...WE all suffer from oppression and it's not a contest. And for those that dare to compare(talk about slipperly slopes) I have been spit on, called names, beaten up, ostracized, ridiculed, denied employment advancement..shall I go on?