The "Black Community"
by: popsiclestand
Sat Nov 08, 2008 at 08:47:20 AM EST

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8090

(Thank you, thank you. I have yet to understand what this "black community" is because we are of many faiths (or none), different socioeconomic classes, from different regions of the country, different cultures and different political persuasions. We don't have a secret signal of understanding. All I know is that it only took a moment for blacks -- even gay blacks -- to be targeted for harassment because of the anger generated by Prop 8. We all can do so much better than this given what is at stake. - promoted by Pam Spaulding)

In South Carolina, the LGBT population is small.  Whether that's a reflection of the truth or just a reflection of how good some people are at living in the closet, I'm not sure.  Despite the anti-gay sentiment inherent in so many things in my lovely home state, I am proud to say it's LGBT population is pretty close knit.  There is a sense of community of sorts -- an "us against them" theme that reaches beyond race.  Because, frankly, when there's so few of you, little things like the color of someone's skin seem to matter less and less.

So, I start this diary with that to preface my absolute shock at what has come out of the anti-Prop 8 movement.  Maybe I'm just naive (I am almost certain I am), but I had no idea that there was such racial prejudice within this struggle.  I blame the smallness of the SC LGBT "community" on my lack of knowledge, lol.