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Tyra Banks did a show recently on the comparison between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. Here’s the first part. Is gay the new black?

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ShesSuchALovelyLady/ ShesSuchALovelyLady

    Doesn’t even compare!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DarkSkinnedGoddess/ DarkSkinnedGoddess

    She actually said that ? I’m gone

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    tyra will kiss anyone’s azz.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AllBizSumPlay_1/ AllBizSumPlay_1

    Tyra Is Sooooooooooooooo Played Out

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/such_a_fn_lady/ such_a_fn_lady

    The last time I checked being black doesn’t halt the reproduction of humans-but homosexuality does. Tyra’s a brain washed fag-hag. Fk gay rights. They have a right to keep it to themselves and stop propagating sterility of birth to the masses.

    Its an insult and a disrespect to compare that to being black. But I dont think parents should hate or disown their children-ppl have to learn from their own decisions. Life is a learning experience.Though they have a right to be disappointed-media tries to propagandize that its abnormal to oppose homosexuality-because The PPL WHO OWN MEDIA AND HOLLYWOOD ARE HOMOSEXUALS-HELLO!!

    I’m tired of them trying to sell me this b.s.-they can keep it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Beast313/ Beast313

    Exactly! Even if they use the “I was born this way” argument, being homosexual is ultimately a choice. They can have “natural” urges throughout their whole life, but just as serial killers have urges for murder and they choose to kill, homosexuals have the choice of whether or not to indulge in their urges. I can’t choose whether or not to be black.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lifeiswutumakit/ Lifeiswutumakit

    lol @ The person who said fag hag! That’s my word for dikes! lol

    Tyra is wrong for this s**t.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sqweekie1/ Sqweekie1

    Im sorry but the civil rights of Black people far out ways the gay rights movement.For the most part you can always tell a black person when you see them. You cannot tell that a person is gay all the time unless that person tells you. Plus how many gays have lost their lives from being captured from their home land and subjected to travel on a boat that if it became to heavy they were thrown over board.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AJyAnt1/ AJyAnt1

    THE NEW BLACK!!!!

    F that if it is then I dont want to be BLACK! GAYS should have NO RIGHTS!!!but to change or be killed outright! I teach my son ALL the time about gay behaviour, and my daughter. I point out gay dudes, and tell my son how they are. ONE thing about BUSH..He didnt go for that gay mess….OBAMA DOES THO..Save the gays, but abort African babies OBAMA….He’s a cruel HOAX to the American PEOPLE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AuntBooty20/ AuntBooty20

    who in their right mind really do believe, i was born gay. like the mother said man and woman would become as one flesh….man and WOMAN….adam and eve…not adam and steve people….i dont hate the person i hate the sin…..sin is a sin…and i dont believe that two gays or two lesbians should be able to get themselves married….they will answer to God some day….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    it does seem like blacks have jumped in the lead with the homosexuality though. In every direction you turn it seems like hes gay or shes gay. Especially for black women because their excuse is they have been hurt too many times by men so they turn to females like they aint gonna hurt them too. But its just something each individual has to deal with within their selfs. Some things in life arent meant to be understood. And thats why I will never understand why some one would be homosexual.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GACHOSYLOVA/ GACHOSYLOVA

    being Gay is not being Black… they make me sick with this s**t

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/C4pricorn/ C4pricorn

    I for damn sure can’t stand phony people, and I cannot stand Tyra Banks’ phony-needs makeup to look decent-ass

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/It_Iz_What_It_Iz/ It_Iz_What_It_Iz

    You’d think that with Tyra having that big ol Jupiter sized fo’head they’ll be a large brain inside but apparently not. Gay rights and civil rights shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath. It’s disrespectful to our fore fathers who shed blood, sweat, tears, and lost their lives so we can live like we do today.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GotThatThump/ GotThatThump

    F*UCK NO , BEING GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/droppin_hints/ droppin_hints

    OMG I havent even looked at the show yet and just the comments are insane wtf??? How dare someone say gays should have no rights. We (yes im a lesbian) have just as many rights as anyone. Being a black lesbian at that, I feel that my rights get violated all the time. The civil rights movement and gay equality are 2 seperate matters tho. In my eyes I feel that we love who we love, nothing more nothing less. I see it as if a fine guy loves a fat ugly girl or vice versa then oh well thats who they love. I dont get it ppl who think that gay ppl have no rights have no clue how large the gay community really is. No one is trying to ask you as a person to be gay. Just be open minded to ppl. One day it might be your very close friend, brother or sister to tell you that they are gay. Child too. And by the way gay ppl get killed just for being themselves just as black ppl get killed for being black.Hate crimes ppl.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1candykiss4U/ 1candykiss4U

    aint nothing black about being gay…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ALETA6969/ ALETA6969

    its about equl rights!!!!!! why should a person not have the same rights as everyone else because of there sexual prefrence? Why should a person care about whom ever gay or straght the next person is involed with? unless u are involed with a person sexualy what concern is that of yours?Why not allow gay people to get married have health care and make other decisions as a couple they are going to be together any way so why not?

    I dont think that the majority of the peole who gay bash realy know a gay person. they are no different then anyone else only there sex pref. guess what your not have’n sex with them so who cares unless ur a lil curious lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dovonna2u/ dovonna2u

    cant compare black civil rights vs gay civil rights sorry.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Parcell17/ Parcell17

    I didn’t wacth tha clip, but seem some givin tyra tha finger. I think 2 many bro r gay 2day. N tha sis helpn spread tha AIDS, by f**kn with all these homo thugs, jailbirds, n prettyboy gay ass niggaz. I hung with dudes who went 2 jail n got f**kd. N y do chicks wait on jailbirds 2 c** home, cuz dey think dude real n he wasn’t gettn f**k, but who said he wasn’t f**kn sum1.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigbendalibra/ bigbendalibra

    Fighting for ALL rights are the fukking same…..

    I wish common sense were actually common…

    Some n!ggas make black people as a whole look bad (SMH)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/daunlovedone/ daunlovedone

    But what she said is true. Gay get just as much problems now as blacks were getting in the Civil Rights times. Ya’ll think she is kissing someone azz and i dont kiss azz and i knew that. Gays are not accepted as a minority at all. You could get fired for being gay or not being gay and nothing happens. I lost my last job because i wasnt gay. Not a civil rights. No EEOC. But them say it was because I was black and everybody get involved. Think about it. If you had a gay boss in a gay friendly coompany that thinks you could be gay

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_Underdawg/ Da_Underdawg

    Oppressing people for any reason other than them breaking laws is wrong period. Reguardless of how you feel about a person just like many white citizens thought black citizens where beneath them so it similiar. I dont have anything against gay people at all. Hey more gay dudes means more straight women for me LOL!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ebbs82/ Ebbs82

    The laws of Jim Crow used against blacks were MUCH MUCH more severe then anything that happens to gays. I think marriage is the only thing they can really complain about. Everything else being hyped up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DarkSkinnedGoddess/ DarkSkinnedGoddess

    I don’ t give a f**k [Pardon my language] who you love, as long as you love them right,Do whatever you want
    I will not be the person to infringe on any of your right,However This chick have been flying under the radar
    many times with her ignorant statements but it just downed on me Tyra is an idiot,
    How the hell people not wanting you to get married compare to people not even wanting you alive because of your skin color?
    The struggle continues and this half brain half weave chick trying to get the Gay audience is bringing us 10 years Back

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PrettyBoyJarome/ PrettyBoyJarome

    It was only a matter of time until all the gay homo DL brothas would come out of the wood works and defend this nonsense. You gays have rights. The union of man and women should NEVER be seen in the same light as the union of man and man or woman and woman. Show me one life created out of the union of man and man or woman and woman. Gays are people but they are not normal. You homo thugs call wanting to stick your pen*s up another man’s hairy ass as being normal? or kissing another man on his p***s and lips as being normal. Y’all are sick savages who should put in a cage and exiled off to a remote island and live in the wild. If you know your history, the white man strated that homo s**t living up in the mountains. That ain’t being black!! Y’all are a disgrace. I won’t let you dumb ass sistas off the hook either. That going both ways s**t ain’t a turn on to no real man. Y’all just putting yourselves on blast for being hoes and the carrier of more STD’s. Our black people were sicked with dogs, beat, hung, killed in cold blood and how dare some of you coons compare our civil rights movement to an abomination such as homo sexulaity. Y’all mutha f**kas are reaching, but keep reaching because your arms are too f**kin’ short!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    Let’s break each rights movement down to it’s roots. Why did Blacks feel they should be equal to Whites? Because we felt there was no difference between Black and Whites except the color of our skin. Why do Gays and Lesbians feel they should be equal to straight people? Because we (I’m bisexual) feel that there is no difference between a heterosexual person and a homosexual person except who the person loves/is attracted to/marries. So, how are they different? Just one detail, one group wants rights based onr ace, the other wants rights based on sexuality. At the end of the day, it’s all about equal rights. As an African American bisexual, I feel like being gay is the new black. Yes, I might be more accepted because I choose to marry a man, but does that mean I definitely will? Who knows, in my heart I feel like I can fall in love with a man or woman. I also feel like people as in human on earth have no right to tell us (homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals) what God will do to us because of who we are from birth. Honestly, it’s none of your business. Whatever prosecution I face from God is between me and Him, not the rest of the world. For someone to tell me that homosexuals will go to hell because God feels it is a sin, is honestly, a load of crap. If God didn’t want homosexuals to be on this Earth, every gay person, every lesbian, every transexual, every transgendered person, every bisexual would be dead by now, if it is such a sin and disgrace. God loves all of his children, no matter what. Now, tell me how that isn’t the same as when my grandmother told me that a White person said to her she’s going to Hell because God views Blacks as the Devil and full of sin? I’m gonna stop there before I really step on somebodies toes today.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    you CAN change your sexual preference! ( it happens all the time) YOU ‘CANNOT’ wake up one day and decide you dont want to be black anymore !!!!!!!!!! i swear there are thousands of “educated” fools walking this planet.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    Oh, and i will make this statement. Radical Christians feel that homosexuals should die because they are gay,lesbian,bisexual,transgendered. Isn’t that the same as being killed for the color of your skin? Either way, someone is dying because of something they cannot control. We can’t control what color our skin is when we are born (except lighter skinned people who can tan or put bronzer on to look darker, but that’s another topic for another day) just like we cannot control who we fall in love with.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    why dont gays and bisexuals just accept the fact that we are NOT accepting their bullshyt!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    the same reason why there are white people still today who refuse to call Obama their president

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BigSuge09/ BigSuge09

    If fags and dikes want to compare their struggle to civil rights then lets, let them drink from different water fountains, be refused service at restaurant’s and other public establishments, hosed down like animals, beaten and falsely jailed, and fired without just cause, and given seperate bathrooms to use. the only thing gay people can’t do that we can is get married and hell in alot of states they can do that now It’s a disgrace and foolish to compare the two and Tyra is a punk, sell out b***h for even entertaining this thought on her show or letting other people debate it on her show. That’s my word. Can u dig it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    ok, so the brutal deaths of gay men and lesbian women are just okay? that doesn’t compare to the death of blacks? is that what we are saying. oh the death of a black person is way worse than the death of a gay man or lesbian woman? the value of life is that different? if it is, then there are more homophobic jerks on Earth. If that’s how it is, then you are just as evil as the KKK

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    FACT: through therapy, people have been able to “change” from a homosexual to a heterosexual
    FICTION: people are born gay.
    FACT: scientists, in looking for a link between genetics and homosexual behavior, have actually found that there is no such thing as a “gay gene” (these were people that were trying to PROVE that certain people are born gay)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1withclass/ 1withclass

    I believe that hatred against anyone no matter who they are is wrong. However, to compare a sexual preference with something that isn’t a choice should not be analyzed so much. The terrorism and mistreatment against people of color over centuries compared to hatred against those who choose to be with someone of the same sex? These issues are not compatible and should not be weighed based on who suffers the most or least. Using them as separate examples to prove a point that people should respect and not judge others on how they look and their choices is one thing, but comparing hatred towards homosexuals to hatred towards people of color??? NO, it’s not the same and there will never be enough simularites!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    where the f.u.c.k does Obama comes in?! why people ALWAYS bringing that man up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ALETA6969/ ALETA6969

    Gay bashing happens every day.
    look at the lil boy who killed himself because of gay bashing?

    do You even know any gay people? i dont think so. you sound like a mondern day racist. If u were dying or lord for bid one of your loved ones you would want that gay doctor to save you are ur child mother brother or sister.

    I think alot of people are afraid of things they dont know about. what makes it sad is that they are not open to even finding out.
    i know some of the nicest gay and straight people you would ever know.

    hey the say one in 4 or 5 is gay so who knows maybe its your child your sister your brother you never know

    wake up people!!!!!! We are all people of the U.S.A (well most of us)and all should have the same equal rights reguardless of race sex prefrence or our religous opinons

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    fact: when a man has a stronger x chromosome than y, he’s more effeminate and can be gay. when a woman has a stronger y chromosome than x, she can be more masculine. how do I know this, let’s see, when you take a class called psychology and you look at these studies, you tend to learn a lot. and the fact is yes, a gay man can be like today im gonna date a girl, will he enjoy it, if he’s really gay, then no he wont and hence thats where suicide rates increase because society forces them to choose to be with someone they don’t want to because they get discriminated against for it. look at adoption, gays and lesbians are discriminated against when adopting children because ignorant people believe they will turn the children gay, when in fact, according to a study i read, there are more gay children that come out to STRAIGHT parents than gay parents. When gays want to get help from the government, they get discriminated against and often get denied for some bogus reason. is that not as relevent as not being able to vote because of race? is it not as relevant as not being able to eat at certain places because of race. discrimination is wrong IN ALL THE WAYS IT IS DONE. If you discriminate, then you are basically supporting hate, which makes you just like someone we all know who hated blacks, the KKK, so I guess we have a gay bashing KKK now huh? I see who the members are already. Good luck with killing us all off, cause you cannot stop us from being here, whether you liek it or not. Maybe the gay civil rights movement doesnt effect as many people, but I feel like its is just as important and crucial as the black civil rights movement. and im done, if u wanna send hate mail feel free to hit up my bp page and say what you want.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    I think people have the misconception that Gay people are like this or gay people are like that and need to reeducate themselves on the fact. The media has always portrayed the Gay person as a sexually promiscuous person that really has not sense of anything except for sex. But think about it this way Black people are also portrayed in the wrong way in media. Everyone thinks a black person is capable of murder, robbing, any type of crime over another. And we all know these stereotypes are not true. Everyone struggles that’s a minority, rather it would be race or sexual orientation. It’s a struggle and as long as we are not able to except each other we will continue to persecute each other. For a black president not to be accepted as president for some people is like a gay child not being accepted by its own family. And for the people that say gay people don’t have as many struggles as black people. Look into the many suicides, the many gay bashing incidents, and the discrimination they have to deal with. People say the color of your skin doesn’t define you. Well your sexual orientation shouldn’t define you too. Everyone deserves an equal right to exist on this world and to be honest the gay movement does embody that of the black/asian/hispanic/women’s movements because they too are minorities and have been discriminated against. Calling someone the F*GGOT is just like calling someone that’s black a N*GGER people need to realize that all minorities have that in common. And need to move on because if people continue to hate the world will never change. And the reason we voted for Obama is change. It’s definitely time for a change.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    Just like Haydenchan86 said, Obama is for change, and honestly, for people to not want a change for gay rights, I don’t see how you could call yourself someone who believes in civil rights. If you are not in this for change, then you are not in it with our president.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ALETA6969/ ALETA6969

    5-8 3:48 pm….

    thats a bunch of b.s. my best friend was gay he found his nat family when he was 18 they all have different mothers did not grow up together and guess what they are all gay!!!!!!

    You cant help what u are atracted 2. yes you can help if u act upon it.
    do u honestly think that a person who is gay would want to go through all the torcher that they do? I dont think so.

    scientist have said that same b.s. for years now.
    maybe u are afraid of what you dont know about

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Curvy i agree with you 100% everyone just needs to think again on why they wanted to even vote for Obama if you voted for him because he was black.. then you shouldn’t be voting… DAREALRECKLESS the reason why Obama is being brought into this is because he struggled in the past to get to where he is today and now he’s fighting for those same people that are struggling right now. Understand that

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    i don’t EVER remember watching a docu. about gays being stolen and sold from their homeland, being hung while their wives and daughters looked on in sorrow, being rape and forced to go work in the blazing cottonfields right after, being sprayed with hoses BY GOVERNMENT AND STATE OFFICIALS. man ‘eye’ can go all day. miss me with tha bullshyt!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    I’m proud that the women on this site have more of a brain than any of the men because we see things in a larger perspective and as women we will stand strong hopefully a female president will be amongst us in the futur

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    DAREALRECKLESS honestly you’re just being real ignorant but have u actually tried looking for a doc**entary of the struggles of gay america? i honestly don’t think so… why? because if you checked out or watched anything on gay people i have a feeling you’re one of those men that would be scared of being called gay for watching it…the reason why men are hating on gay people is because they’re scared that gay people will hit on them or that they’ll like it or whatever.. like i said chill out and educate yourself

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    O bama is a politician/puppet. congress run america you fools. im an ex-patriot(since i was 15) so miss me with the bullshyt.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Angel_2011/ Angel_2011

    Smh….For all a morons sayin gay is not da new black they are sayin BLACK PEOPE ARE GAY…da white chick agasint gay marriage is a hypocrite. Christans arent suppose to judge. on GOD is nyones judge. Im straight and i u wanna go by the bible do it right. Im tolerant of everyone. IM not perfect and i don not have the right to judge NY1. I sin too. Just cuz im straight dont make my sins less wrong. If ur gay. more power to you. Ur still human and still gods child. Stop the hypocrasy (sp?). 1 God. 1 love.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Oh and btw African’s aren’t the only ones that were being enslaved. Asians are being enslaved to this day in countries other than the america’s and the native american people were enslaved as well. Everyone has or is struggling at this moment so for you people to say that gay people fighting for their rights is pointless too you should be highly ashamed of yourself

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigmandt/ bigmandt

    As a inteligent black man i’m insulted that anyone can compare the hystory of the black race to a simple chosen lifestyle. Black people didn’t chose to be black we didn’t chose to be captured, taken away from our homeland and enslaved. but it was through the grace and mercy of our Lord that we were able to make the best of an unfortunate event and be established in this nation as we are today. Now I do believe that Gays should have certain rights to live peacefully cause I do believe in tolerrance. But as Christians if we are to give gays full civil rights as straights, are we turning our back on Christ and are now doing things on our own. Ask yourself this one question… Is this one nation under GOD, or one nation under WHAT god?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Angel_2011/ Angel_2011

    *BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT GAY…typo…sit down before yall lose ya draws it wasa TYPO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    If you are an ex patriot why do you live in america? you have a choice to leave why don’t you? Is it because you feel safer in this nation than any other? It’s ridiculous that you call yourself an ex-patriot yet you still live in this country and still serve it.. i’m sorry but you’re just ludacris.. none of your believes match your actions

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    But civil rights isn’t only about marriage though.. marriage is the only thing that involves the religion of christ.. health care doesn’t, and neither does allowing them to just live their life I do agree with you bigmandt to an extent but I feel like not everyone in America is a christian though

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/upstart_22/ upstart_22

    I believe homosexuality is a lifestyle and choice — there isn’t enough evidence to convince me otherwise. However, homosexuals are being prosecuted unfairly and unjustly, being denied the right to marriage (which I think is a non-issue that should be granted in order to focus our attentions on more universal issues). On that note, I will say that it is similar to mixed couples back in the day that were legally married in one state and not in another.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    MORE IDIOTS! i am NOT a christian. people SHOULDand DO judge.
    you JUDGE whom you associate with.
    you teach your kids to watch who you call your friends – judging
    people judge everyday.
    i wonder how you all feel about pedophile rights? they are human,they cant help whom they love………right?
    what about human who “love” animals. why shouldn’t that lady be allowed to marry a horse? its only love!

    “If you dont stand for something, you will FALL for anything!”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/OrigColoCutie/ OrigColoCutie

    Blacks are discrimated against ON SIGHT. Most gays aren’t discriminated against on sight. While I’m an advocate of “do what you wanna do”, comparing the ongoing Black struggle to being gay is ridiculous.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/everymansdream9/ everymansdream9

    There is NO comparison to the Civil Rights Era and the so-called gay movement.
    It’s an insult to the highest degree. WTF is she thinking?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    maybe i don’t have the finances to relocate to another country@idiot

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Being black doesn’t not compare to being gay of course but the struggles that a “minority” go through is the relationship i’m trying to make.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/my9get8/ my9get8

    HELL NO gay is not the new black…A gay person does not have to or need to divulge the fact that they are gay.
    Now on the other hand if I go into a workplace looking for a job I can NOT hide the fact that I’m black.
    I understand that there are people in this world that will discriminant against others for being of a different race, sex, and sexual orientation.
    But the difference in the before mention categories is that being gay is a CHOICE and the others you have no control over.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Why are you calling us idiots? everyone has a right to their belief and you honestly cannot compare attraction to the attraction of a child? it’s not a mutual thing. Children don’t want to be having sex with an adult it’s forced. That’s what a pedophile does. It’s a form of rape. As for the animal thing it’s the same thing the animal doesn’t have a say in the relationship it’s usually sexual and it’s also considered rape. So you cannot compare that to a consensual relationship

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GenuineDRAFT713/ GenuineDRAFT713

    WOW THE DUMBEST THING I EVER HEARD IN NO WAY DOES THE GAY RIGHTS COMPARE TO WHAT HAPPEN DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT PLEASE CANT BELIEVE PPL ACTUALLY THINK THAT

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smarty_me/ smarty_me

    A gay white man or woman can “act straight” and not have their civil right infringed upon. A black person is a black person is a black person.. Our civil liberties are tested the minute we were born.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    How can people say being gay is a choice? Being Bisexual is a choice because you get to choose that’s like saying being straight is a choice lol Like could a straight guy like yourselves honestly turn gay? I think there’s a difference between people that are openminded with their sexuality than people that are actually attracted to the same sex

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Scrappy4U2/ Scrappy4U2

    A person’s phenotype is a matter of DNA. Is homosexuality genetic? I think not!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phat_lip/ Phat_lip

    I AM A BORN BLACK MAN I CANT CHANGE THAT.

    WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS YOUR BUSINESS
    BUT WHY FORCE YOUR LIFESTYLE ON ME AND MY CHILDREN???

    AND HELL NAW GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK!!!

    WE DIED FOR OVER 400YRS BECAUSE OF SKIN COLOR LYNCHED AND HUNG THE WHOLE 9!

    DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO “LOVE TO HAVE SEX AND HAVE A LOVE CONNECTION WITH THERE ANIMALES”? SHOULD THEY HAVE RIGHTS TO MARRY AND CHANGE OUR LAWS BECAUSE THEY ARE IN LOVE?!?

    DO YOU KNOW THAT ITS PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT SLEEP AND FALL IN LOVE WITH THERE BROTHER AND SISTER OR A PARRENT?
    SHOULD THEY HAVE RIGHTS TO MARRY?

    I MEAN LETS KEEP IT REAL IF YOU GONNA PASS A LAW FOR GAYS WHY NOT PASS IT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MARRY THERE ANIMALES, SISTERS, BROTHERS, AUNTS, UNCLES FISH ECT.!

    OH THAT SOUND CRAZY TO PASS THE LAWS FOR THEM HUH? BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE IS IN LOVE WITH HER BLOOD SISTER? OR EVEN HER MOM?

    WHAT IM SAYING IS IF YOU PASS THE LAW JUST FOR GAYS PASS IT FOR THEM ALL! NOW THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND…

    IF YOUR GAY AND YOUR NOT OK WITH THE OTHER LIFE STYLES LISTED ABOVE WOULD YOU THEN BE LABELED PREJUDICE?

    AND DONT GET ALL PISSY IM JUST SHOWING ANOTHER SIDE OF THE COIN LOL.

    BECAUSE IN A MINUTE YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE DUDES MARCHING WITH THERE OWN MOTHERS DEMANDING RIGHTS.

    QUESTION FOR YOU GAY FOLKS DO YOU AGREE WITH THE ABOVE SCENARIOS? AND IF NOT WHY?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigmandt/ bigmandt

    being gay is a choice, being bisexual is a choice being straight is also a choice. it is a lifestyle that people chose.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/whisperingdove/ whisperingdove

    catching hiv—is everybodys threat—-pretty soon theres gonna be all hiv ostive schools-high schools-middles schools—so they gay rights dont mean s**t to me—congress aint having it

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    I think everyone knows the struggles of black people that’s a given and the reason why we know about it is because we are educated on it.. Everyone black,white,asian, hispanic, even if they are racist we know about it because White/Black/Asian/Hispanic people taught us about it. Honestly african american ancestors they fought long and hard to get african americans to where they are today. That’s the thing though every minority will have their story.. africans-americans had slavery, asian americans had – the asian wars- hispanics had their war as well, women had a revolution. Obviously there are going to be people that wouldn’t or still don’t support each other but eventually things will lighten up once everyone is more educated about the struggles one another go through

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Just to let you know HIV is not contracted by just gay people the majority of people that have HIV are straight… and I do understand where bigmandt is coming from again. but those choices should all have a choice which is rights. If marriage all together was taken away i think christians would be devastated. But i feel like when it comes to gay marriage gay people would probably savor marriage more than straight people do anyhow now a days. with the divorces rates going up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phat_lip/ Phat_lip

    HEYDENCHAN86 WHAT ABOUT THE GUY 19YR OLD GUY WHO WANTS 20 MARRY HIS 35 YEAR OLD MOTHER AND HAVE KIDS SHOULD THEY HAVE RIGHTS AS WELL?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigmandt/ bigmandt

    Did God just creat a whole new race of people that the world didn’t know about!!!!! It is so crazy to say that the plite of a chosen lifestyle is the same as the plite of an entire race of people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/just_bn_me_t/ just_bn_me_t

    My comment is directed to Phat Lip. Your comment about a person being in love with their animals, knowing that it is a possibility. But seriously, would a sane person really want to marry an animal ? And if im not mistaken can’t some family members marry in some states ? I beleive that people should have the right to marry who they want. I wish it was as easy for me to marry my woman as it is for a man to marry his woman.

    I am not being pissy just voicing my opinion.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    of course they shouldn’t have that right because if they had kids. The kids would come out mentally challenged or have deformities… you guys all know this is common sense.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phat_lip/ Phat_lip

    I AM A BORN BLACK MAN I CANT CHANGE THAT.

    WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS YOUR BUSINESS
    BUT WHY FORCE YOUR LIFESTYLE ON ME AND MY CHILDREN???

    AND HELL NAW GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK!!!

    WE DIED FOR OVER 400YRS BECAUSE OF SKIN COLOR LYNCHED AND HUNG THE WHOLE 9!

    DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO “LOVE TO HAVE SEX AND HAVE A LOVE CONNECTION WITH THERE ANIMALES”? SHOULD THEY HAVE RIGHTS TO MARRY AND CHANGE OUR LAWS BECAUSE THEY ARE IN LOVE?!?

    DO YOU KNOW THAT ITS PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT SLEEP AND FALL IN LOVE WITH THERE BROTHER AND SISTER OR A PARRENT?
    SHOULD THEY HAVE RIGHTS TO MARRY?

    I MEAN LETS KEEP IT REAL IF YOU GONNA PASS A LAW FOR GAYS WHY NOT PASS IT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MARRY THERE ANIMALES, SISTERS, BROTHERS, AUNTS, UNCLES FISH ECT.!

    OH THAT SOUND CRAZY TO PASS THE LAWS FOR THEM HUH? BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE IS IN LOVE WITH HER BLOOD SISTER? OR EVEN HER MOM?

    WHAT IM SAYING IS IF YOU PASS THE LAW JUST FOR GAYS PASS IT FOR THEM ALL! NOW THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND…

    IF YOUR GAY AND YOUR NOT OK WITH THE OTHER LIFE STYLES LISTED ABOVE WOULD YOU THEN BE LABELED PREJUDICE?

    AND DONT GET ALL PISSY IM JUST SHOWING ANOTHER SIDE OF THE COIN LOL.

    BECAUSE IN A MINUTE YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE DUDES MARCHING WITH THERE OWN MOTHERS DEMANDING RIGHTS.

    QUESTION FOR YOU GAY FOLKS DO YOU AGREE WITH THE ABOVE SCENARIOS? AND IF NOT WHY?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    bigmandt i don’t think you can compare sexual orientation to race but gay/lesbians/transgenders are people and a part of a minority community

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Benzly/ Benzly

    Please there is no comparison .. why do gay people always try this stuff man … this the same reason why now some people see being gay as a choice .. and Now some just choose to go that way and go bi ..GREED

    Gay people need to keep it in the closet some more …u kno its not natural so stop pretending like it is .. jus live ur life.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    lmao @PHAT_LIP “If you dont stand for something you will FALL for anything!”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    I understand that you feel like if there’s a little leeway in giving a certain minority group some rights there’s going to be those new people that are going to demand for more rights right? well the things is Animals don’t really have a voice and there are some states like just_bn_me_t said that allows people that are related to marry but not produce kids… it’s all about reading into the education… and come on enough with the animal stuff Animals do not have a voice

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CHICHITO/ CHICHITO

    homosexuality is not accepted in the Torah Bible and Quran these gays and lesbians are the children of Satan…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    to be honest they ALL need to come out the closet. i like to KNOW who my enemies are.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/karmeltoye/ karmeltoye

    @ Phat_lip…i cant even express how much i agree with every word you said…damn…the power of the intelligent mind…everybody so caught up with trying to make something the new black well hell the old black still catching hell…just cause Obama is the President and he is multi-racial doesn’t mean the “we have arrived” people didn’t vote for him because he was black it was because he was the lesser of two evils…

    damn black folks been struggling for centuries…how is gay rights equivalent to that. we weren’t discriminated against because we chose to be black…no body went and snatched gay people out of their natural habitat to bring them here…they burn in their lust just like straight people whatever their lusts are. we are not talking prejudice based on something that can not be changed…and your sexual orientation is your business I aint waving no flag telling everybody how i love being straight….damn i do what i do and if you doing it with me then that’s between me and you…why the whole world gotta know or care??????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    i’m sorry chichito that’s just ridiculous the majority of the people that committed murders/crimes/hate crimes or whatever are usually straight causasian males… i honestly don’t see a lot of gay people murdering there’s a rare few but not too many

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Hitwoman/ Hitwoman

    This is just me wondering aloud, but does anyone think that some homosexuality exists to help control the population? The reason that I ask is because there are some species, such as penguins, in which homosexual practice exists. Animal experts don’t have all the answers, but they think that it somehow keeps populations in check…just another way for nature to do so. It’s just a thought.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/such_a_fn_lady/ such_a_fn_lady

    “Gay get just as much problems now as blacks were getting in the Civil Rights times..”

    Whoever thinks that is stupid as hell and don’t know who runs this country and your lives. This is just as bad as the no anti-Semites and Jew sympathetic propaganda.

    These mtha fkas want you to feel sorry for them-when they run the damn world, are oppressing ppl like you and are rich as hell. When have you ever really seen a poor homosexual? Think about it & if you have think about the percentage compared to everyone else.

    Even transsexual prostitutes make more money then straight ones because there is more demand. You don’t see anything wrong with that picture? Ya’ll got it twisted. Homosexuals run this country. Defending them just proves you’ve been bamboozled by your enemy.

    We live in a grecko-roman societal structure-in case you haven’t noticed. They’re trying to convert everyone to their life style-which is why theres so much child molestation and sexual abuse going on-especially in the church. Wake the fk up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phat_lip/ Phat_lip

    Haydenchan86 OK OK WHAT IF THEY ADOPT? HOW CAN YOU SAY THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE RIGHTS JUST CAUSE OF THE HAVING THE CHILD FACTOR GAYS CANT REPRODUCE?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    @KARAMEL where u been queen?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bobbiperk/ bobbiperk

    As pointed out by others, there is a huge difference between the two.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/C4pricorn/ C4pricorn

    people are not born gay, they are born with genitalia and they have the option to use it however they please – whoever thinks people are born gay was born STUPID.

    On some real s**t, all the gay people need to just migrate to a gay ass island and make all the rules and rights they want…take all the flames, DL fags, lesbians and whatever queer name u can think of…dump em all on Antarctica.
    hell I’d be happy.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Hitwoman i kinda see your point that’s an interesting way to look at it

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    It’s so weird how there’s so much hate against gays lol… how do u think racist people feel about you black people lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ms_Lo/ Ms_Lo

    I was born black and I will die black. I didn’t choose to be born black. Being gay is a choice and people need to get it out of their heads that they will get any type of respect for their choice. Blacks died so that we could have the choices that we have now. The Civil Rights Movement was a historic moment for all blacks. There shouldn’t even be a gay movement of any kind. They shouldn’t have any rights for the choices that they made to live the life style that they live. Read your Bibles people. God doesn’t condone this type of behavior. This is another test that He is putting us through and the ones that are gay and supporting gays. I hope that you don’t think you’re getting into the Kingdom supporting this matter. Gays don’t deserve to marry one another. God simply stated that marriage should be shared between Man and Woman, not man and man woman and woman. Gays shouldn’t have the rights to adopt children. What can they teach a child in a house between two men and two women. A child needs a mother and a father. With all of this being stated. Being gay is not and never will be the new Black.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phat_lip/ Phat_lip

    Haydenchan86 OK OK WHAT IF THEY ADOPT? HOW CAN YOU SAY THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE RIGHTS JUST CAUSE OF THE HAVING THE CHILD FACTOR GAYS CANT REPRODUCE.?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phat_lip/ Phat_lip

    MS_LO YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    I don’t see a problem with adoption at all. I just think if they were to physically reproduce a baby they shouldn’t have that right because of the known fact that the baby will be mentally unstable or deformed. And in some states incest is ok but it’s very few there’s restrictions

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigmandt/ bigmandt

    I.m not saying that gays sholud not be together, if a man wants to be with another man or a woman wants to be with another woman then that’s between them. But to say not only do we want to be together but we also want to be married and have the same benifits as straight people is pushing it. once again i can love and resect and protect all people reguardless of their sexual orientation, but i MUST first stay true to my LORD Jesus the Christ and keep his commandments and laws first above the law of man. His word say that gay practices are a sin Leviticus Chapter 20

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Honestly you guys say bible this bible that.. but do you guys remember the most popular quote in the bible? “love thy neighbor” and ““Treat others as you want to be treated.”—Luke 6:31

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/such_a_fn_lady/ such_a_fn_lady

    curvydiva88 I see you running your mouth but you dont know what your talking about-you sound like a brain washed hybrid negro. Obama is here for Operation Depopulation. Thats why he is simultaneously promoting homosexuality And Abortion. You dont know shyt about whats going on in this world so sit down some where lil girl.

    Noone said gays didn’t exist or there wasnt some mental illness or chemical imbalance making them gay-but the same goes for pedophiles and incest. Theres a malfunction in their biology-that doesn’t mean it should be an accepted norm-it shouldn’t because it is a threat to the mental health and continuance of the human species.

    The more ppl that become homosexual-the lower the birth rate-which is just what the govt desires. If you knew what whats going on right now and the plan implemented between Bushs final term and now-you’d know that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    I honestly don’t think the bible should even be brought into the conversation because there are so many verses in the bible that contradict each other that it’s gonna be a continuous discussion lol but it was kinda fun talking about it and having to use my brain anyways everyone have a good day lol :)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slickwil/ slickwil

    “I honestly don’t think the bible should even be brought into the conversation because there are so many verses in the bible that contradict each other”

    Kinda new at this…but what are the verses that contradict each other?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/En_Sabah_Nur/ En_Sabah_Nur

    LORD Jesus the Christ and keep his commandments and laws. You foolish man the bible is nothing more then a diary written by men. Jesus Christ a Saviour from what we were KINGS & QUEENS before Christ.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Benzly/ Benzly

    Haydenchan86 .. WHAT WRONG SOMETIMES IT SEEMS U SEEING MY POINT SOMETIMES U DANCING AROUND IT
    PEOPLE LIVE WHAT THEY LEARN THATS THE FACTS … ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE YOUNG .. ITS JUST LIKE A SONG THE MORE U HERE IT THE MORE U ACCEPT IT … IM REALY SORRY FOR WHO FEELS THAT THEY R GAY BUT I CANT ALLOW U TO INFLUENCE MY CHILDREN WITH UR MALFUNCTION OF CHOICE .. MAYBE U GREW UP THAT WAY ETC.. WITH WAT EVER INFLUENCES OR SCIENTIFICALLY BEYOND UR CONTROL

    YES U HAVE RIGHTS JUS LIKE OTHER PEOPLE .. BUT KEEP THAT SEXUALITY S**T IN THE CLOSET CAUSE IT IS NOT NATURAL

    ITS JUST LIKE I ASKED GAY DUDE I KNO IF HE WOULD RATHER HE WAS BORN STRAIGHT AND LIKED GIRLS .. HE SAID YES HE WOULD BUT FOR SOME REASON HE LIKES OTHER DUDES BUT IF HE HAD A CHOICE HE WOULD HAVE WANTED THAT.
    THAT IS SIMPLY SHOWING U THAT THEY KNO ITS NOT NATUAL .. BUT THEY HAVE TO CONTINUE .. ITS THE NEWLY GAY AND BISEXUALS ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE THIS THING SEEM AS IF ITS NATURAL AND BLEND IT IN AND S**T ..THAT HOW AIDS GREW IN THE 80′S

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    God does not say anywhere in the bible that anyone should hate gay people… he says they will be punished for their sins but even then they are not to be judged by other people. People hate people on their own so when people use God as a scapegoat to hate gay people. They themselves are committing a sin.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Benzly i’m not a close minded person i try to see through everyone’s perspective.. I just like to learn and understand views and why people think a certain way.. I have my own way of thinking you have yours and it’s good to learn from one another that’s why i’m posting not because i’m angry or upset or whatever

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sketch-of-Bmore/ Sketch-of-Bmore

    being gay is a chosen lifestyle, being black is manditory and besides that gays never been through slavery, being lynched for the color of their skin for hundreds of years…..so in my opinion no its not the new black nor will it ever be.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Benzly I do understand what you mean though but i think if everyone could have the easy way out they would choose it.. but i mean honestly if a part of ur brain is telling you that you are attracted to men you can’t shut it off and be like oh i’m not even if he did he wouldn’t be happy and as for gays influencing children… i dont’ really think that’s possible because there are a lot of gay parents out there that have raised straight children and they’re perfectly fine. And if you guys are trying to base pedophiles on gay people u guys are looking at the wrong people pedophiles are usually straight males

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FLING_FYAH/ FLING_FYAH

    This gay ting getting out of control, comparing black struggle and the batty mon movement is a abomination!!!!!!! How come they aren’t comparing dem to the Jews…..Blacks have been oppressed fo over 500 yrs. I a proud man, and hearing bout gay the new black vexes meh. But one ting; read LEVITICUS 18:22….Question would u welcome killers, thieves and adulterers with open arms? No, why is it ok we must accept dem. God states it a abomination. I follows God law not mans law

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Benzly/ Benzly

    NAA NAA I GUESS U DIDNT READ MY COMMENT PROPERLY … THIS IS PROMOTION I LIVE IN THIS ZONE MOST OF MY LIFE .. I SEE PEOPLE MAKE PEOPLE DO THINGS THEY WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IF IT WASNT FOR WAT WAS PROMOTED

    THE MORE U SEE AND PUSH CERTAIN ISSUES IT WILL BE ACCEPTED AS THE NATURAL …..
    AND LET ME SAY THIS
    EVERYTHING THAT IS DONE
    BOILS DOWN TO ONE THING

    “DOLLAS AND CENT”

    REMEMBER THAT
    THE HALF HAS NOT BEEN TOLD

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    No one would ever understand what it’s truely like to be gay unless they were or no one will understand what it’s like to be in the civil rights era unless they were.. so there can’t be a vague understanding oh i think it was like this or like that it’s gotta come from the people that experienced it themselves to realize how hard the struggle was or is.. especially slavery i don’t think any of you guys actually know what it’s like to be enslaved so don’t talk like u do.. you’ve heard stories but until you’ve actually been through it don’t act like u have.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FLING_FYAH/ FLING_FYAH

    LEVITICUS 18:22 read it
    Haydenchan86

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    but who are u to condemn gay people… that’s God’s doing not yours…. for you guys to promote it is like promoting murder.. it should not be done.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ms1970Something/ Ms1970Something

    As someone who is both Black and Lesbian… I am kind of torn on this subject… I do NOT feel like the Gay Civil Rights movement is exactly as the same as the Black Civil rights movement but, I feel as though it is similar because they were both huge struggles that were necessary and had/have the ability to change a whole community as well as the way the world views the community in question…they were/are both necessary movements. Being Gay or Lesbian is no more a choice than being born black its just not as obvious to everyone as your skin color or your features. However, I no more have a choice on whether or not I am attracted to a woman than a straight woman has about being attracted to a man you love who you love…and you are who you are…The End.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/charlie358olay/ charlie358olay

    NO!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mr_Spann/ Mr_Spann

    It is just as perverse for a man to be with a man sexually as it is for an adult to be with a child. PERIOD.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/FLING_FYAH/ FLING_FYAH

    so how do u feel bout a killer. would u friend a killer. God states thou shalt not kill. i follow God law…Man law has been puttin my ppl in jail. all remember too blk ppl history has stolen and we had no money back to our up rise.. batty mon have money, we live in north america money talks and bull s**t walk………..remember i tell u dat

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GOOZE-DOWN-MY-THROAT/ GOOZE-DOWN-MY-THROAT

    THIS WORLD JUST LACKS LOVE/PEACE/HAPPINESS/JOY/UNDERSTANDING. WITHOUT LOVE THERES NO ETERNAL LIFE FOR ANYONE GAY/STRAIGHT/BI..WE ALL PERISH FOR THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE/UNDERSTANDING…I PRAY THAT GOD WILL STRONGLY CONVICT US ALL AND TEACH THIS DYING WORLD ABOUT LOVE/MERCY/GRACE.. JESUS DIDNT JUST DIE FOR A GAY PERSON’S MESSUPS NOR A STRAIGHT PERSON’S MESSUPS… GOD LOOKS AT US ALL AS FILTHY/NASTY/NASTY/NASTY/NASTY RAGS. THERS NO SUCH THINGS AS SAINTS..WE WERE CONCIEVED IN SIN.. EVERY DAY WE WAKE UP WE NEED TO BE THANKFUL THAT GOD HAS ALLOWED US TO BREATH A NEW AIR BECAUSE ALOT OF US DIDNT RISE THIS MORNING.. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ANYONE WHO HATES IS A MURDERER. HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE. AND ALOT OF OF YOU PEOPLE NEED TO REALLY WATCH AND BE MINDFUL OF WHAT YOU SAY AND HOW YOU TREAT GODS PEOPLE BECAUSE ITS GOING TO COME RIGHT BACK AROUND TO YOU AND BE CURSED ON YOU.. MANY MANY MANY PEOPLE HAVE FALLEN DEAD OR LOST GREATLY BECAUSE THEY SPEAK NEGATIVE AND DO NEGATIVE THINGS AMONGST GODS CHOSEN PEOPLE GET YOURSELF TOGETHER BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TO JUDGE BECAUSE YOUR NOT WORTHY.. WE ALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN WHIPED OUT AND DESTROYED BUT GOD IS STILL SHOWING US ALL GRACE/MERCY/HIS LOVE..JESUS SAVES NOT YOU…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigmandt/ bigmandt

    Kings and Queens before CHRIST!?!?!According to your statement man was here before Christ, infact there is no Christ. Were all here by our own perfect will. I do love you and respect your opinion and will continue to pray for all to live peacefully and prosper .But to call me foolish for beleiving in a power higher than man, really say somthing about you. I will leave you with a quote form BIGMANDT ” know the Word of GOD before you condem the word of GOD. Now you have a nice day and I pray that God will someday change your heart.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phat_lip/ Phat_lip

    I AM A BORN BLACK MAN I CANT CHANGE THAT.

    WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS YOUR BUSINESS
    BUT WHY FORCE YOUR LIFESTYLE ON ME AND MY CHILDREN???

    AND HELL NAW GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK!!!

    WE DIED FOR OVER 400YRS BECAUSE OF SKIN COLOR LYNCHED AND HUNG THE WHOLE 9!

    DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO “LOVE TO HAVE SEX AND HAVE A LOVE CONNECTION WITH THERE ANIMALES”? SHOULD THEY HAVE RIGHTS TO MARRY AND CHANGE OUR LAWS BECAUSE THEY ARE IN LOVE?!?

    DO YOU KNOW THAT ITS PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT SLEEP AND FALL IN LOVE WITH THERE BROTHER AND SISTER OR A PARRENT?
    SHOULD THEY HAVE RIGHTS TO MARRY?

    I MEAN LETS KEEP IT REAL IF YOU GONNA PASS A LAW FOR GAYS WHY NOT PASS IT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MARRY THERE ANIMALES, SISTERS, BROTHERS, AUNTS, UNCLES FISH ECT.!

    OH THAT SOUND CRAZY TO PASS THE LAWS FOR THEM HUH? BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE IS IN LOVE WITH HER BLOOD SISTER? OR EVEN HER MOM?

    WHAT IM SAYING IS IF YOU PASS THE LAW JUST FOR GAYS PASS IT FOR THEM ALL! NOW THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND…

    IF YOUR GAY AND YOUR NOT OK WITH THE OTHER LIFE STYLES LISTED ABOVE WOULD YOU THEN BE LABELED PREJUDICE?

    AND DONT GET ALL PISSY IM JUST SHOWING ANOTHER SIDE OF THE COIN LOL.

    BECAUSE IN A MINUTE YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE DUDES MARCHING WITH THERE OWN MOTHERS DEMANDING RIGHTS.

    QUESTION FOR YOU GAY FOLKS DO YOU AGREE WITH THE ABOVE SCENARIOS? AND IF NOT WHY…?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/such_a_fn_lady/ such_a_fn_lady

    @Haydenchan86 Would you shut the hell up-your posting on every page & your not black or gay. If there’s something you feel guilty about go see a therapist.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/En_Sabah_Nur/ En_Sabah_Nur

    Your word of GOD is nothing more then a DIARY made up & copied from ancient race of Blacks known as Egyptians. You talk that wORD OF god nonsense that same word has held us back since our ancestors were enslaved here.
    PS: Phat Lip were were enslaved far longer then 400 yrs Muslims were doing twice as much to us well since 642 AD and beyond.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/En_Sabah_Nur/ En_Sabah_Nur

    Question for you man of God what version of the bible do you follow?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phat_lip/ Phat_lip

    jhon 1:14 Jesus is God

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    how would u know if someone’s a killer though? that’s the thing… are they gonna come out and be like i’m a killer!! look at me!!! lol don’t think so my friend. and by the way ur people are in jail because they don’t want to work or they’re trying to find the easy way out, they’re living off the government, pretty much all the same reasons that they should be in jail just like all the white, hispanic and asian people doing the same thing. Well honestly man law is similar to God’s law as well if you’re stealing you broke a commandment, if u killed, u broke a commandment, if you’re having adulturated sex, you broke a commandment.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    such_a_fn_lady i’m just stating the facts girl lol u can hate me all u want but it’s truth.. why you hating anyways? lol LOVE THY NEIGHBOR

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GOOZE-DOWN-MY-THROAT/ GOOZE-DOWN-MY-THROAT

    OK.. WHAT DO YOU RIGHTEOUSLY STAND FOR? TELL ME YOUR PURPOSE? WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY?DID YOU ASK TO BE HERE!? WHY ARE YOU HERE!? WHO’S YOUR MASTER?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/En_Sabah_Nur/ En_Sabah_Nur

    Old testament written between 12th & 2 B.C, New testament written, King James Version written 1611. BLACK KINGS & QUEENS existed from 4000 B.C thousands of yrs before Christ so I ask why are you following the words of WHITE MEN during a racist time over your own people. If you truly follow the bible tell me WHY was the King James Version written

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/En_Sabah_Nur/ En_Sabah_Nur

    What I stand for is the Advancement of my Race, The Economic freedom of all Black Men & Women. Most importantly the freedom of us from that chain of slavery that still exists. that still holds us down Christianity & Islam.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    damn En_Sabah_Nur your words are intense. you’ve obviously been doing your research lol i honestly dont’ think anyone can really answer your questions. but i respect you for your philosophies

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/En_Sabah_Nur/ En_Sabah_Nur

    I’m sorry & apologize to all I didn’t mean to come on so strong, but you get tired of hearing Jesus this Jesus that. People don’t understand how GREAT our race is we were the first scientist, Doctors, farmers life sprang from us, Kings, Queens the whole nine yards next thing you know we slaves & until this current day we still slaves, dependent on caucasians for everything. Don’t you get tired of see whites on TV as Doctors, scientist both in real life & acting while our race what are we Rappers, Dancers we become a race of entertainers. Tired of people who can quote the damn Diary I mean bible word for word but cant speak their TRUE HISTORY (not american history)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Young_Tewnes/ Young_Tewnes

    question… is it alright to equate a sexual prefrence with a race of people. At any given moment u can choose who to lay down with. There are lesbians that have 3 or 4 biological kids. I want u to be able to point out a black person who was able on whim to stop being black. There is no comparison u can be black and choose to be gay. but you cant be gay and “choose” to be black. not equal on any level i wish people would stop degrading the struggle of my people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Honestly i think you guys are all misreading what tyra is trying to say… she isn’t saying Gay is like being black or gay is like being any race she’s trying to say that gays are going to have to build themselves up similar but not exactly the same way as black people did… EVERYONE KNOWS THERE IS NO COMPARISION WHEN IT COMES TO RACE OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION it’s two different things.. and Gay people are obviously not struggling the same way as African American people they are struggling Similarly

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/such_a_fn_lady/ such_a_fn_lady

    @Haydenchan86 I havent seen you state any facts yet. Just your opinion. You cant state facts based on opinion and little to no knowledge. Propaganda is not facts. If you have facts reference the doc**entation and cite the author, lecture, or thesis of where you received your facts from. Watching the Tyra Banks show, Oprah and MTV dont count little girl.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    do you have doc**entation of any of your facts? do you have proof? are u using the bible as proof? because some believe the bible to be fabricated and so far edited than the original that the bible could be considered not even written the same way it was when it first was. And if your only source of backing up your facts is the bible then what else do you have?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GBallad2007/ GBallad2007

    My take on it is, if you believe in the bible. its sinful to have to much pride and if you think about it races have a problem working with one another to make positive things happen. But why? because all races are too prideful of them selves. When a white person and a black concieve a child together we all see the child as being more beautiful to the eyes then a full breed white or black, in my opinion its the true example of what we can accomplish together as one race. I don’t think any of us will get into heaven on the fact that were proud to be black or white or chinese or whatever. If you believe there is a heaven. When we finish destroying the planet not only will we die but so will our pride! Our children have more to worry about then we did or even our ancestors did. Do you know in 30 years the polar ice caps will be totally melted away and at the same time the polar ice caps is what reflects the sun from the earth. And this is all because of every race, we all came together to destroy the earth, good job. So we it comes to any races history who will be here to even continue to be pro black or pro anything.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GBallad2007/ GBallad2007

    If the bible is not fabricated its definitely padded. Although i do believe in god its kinda suspicious to me that all of the saints are men. and it puts men in control of everything. Kinda like the government. If there’s no god its still a great tool because with that beliefs there would be total pandemoniun with no one to answer to but man.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/C4pricorn/ C4pricorn

    Well put GBallad.

    and this should end all of these ridiculous comments.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Gballad marry me lol jk

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Arundhati/ Arundhati

    I don’t know how to respond here. I think about the recent news stories of two young boys, Carl Walker-Hoover & Jaheem Herrera, who committed suicide because they could not stand the constant bullying and TORMENT by their classmates who called them GAY. Where do kids LEARN this kind of intolerance from, other than the ADULTS who surround/support their lives? Is that right? Sometimes, I think Ellen Degeneres is right. They should teach classes in COMPASSION in the early grades. If ‘Gay is the new Black’ then the issue will work its way though the court system – as it seems to be doing (state by state) and JUSTICE will prevail. Peace & Love…
    ..
    Golden rule(for those “MY God is better than YOUR God” people)…
    (Christian): ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’

    (Buddhism): ‘One who, while himself seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will not attain happiness hereafter.’

    (Judaism): ‘That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.’

    (Islam): ‘Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you.’

    (Sikhism): ‘The truly enlightened ones are those who neither incite fear in others nor fear anyone themselves.’

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsLatiinaBlack/ MsLatiinaBlack

    ………… Heavy issue to come across.
    I honestly believe that homosexuality and African Americans fight for equailty is different in many aspects. Yes it may have similarities, however the struggle is not the same. No i do not agree with verbally, or physically abusing homosexual we all should be treated with respect as humans in general, but the question is that is gay the new black. and i have to say NO!. they wasnt enslaved for 100 years. homosexuality regardless if its choice or not you.. they were able to “hide” it. As black people we can not hide our skin complexion. Gays werent segregated into urban ghetto comunities and schools with out dated and useless education materials.
    I respect people that are homosexual because I am a christian and thats what I do, but to even comparestruggles of ethnicities is ridiculous.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kinky_Shepard/ Kinky_Shepard

    I am getting so SICK of so-called gay civil rights being compared to black civil rights!! There is NO ‘F’in comparison and Black people need to quit allowing or making it ok for gay rights activists to use the comparison. I have no problem with what an individuals sexual preferrance or orientation is…that is not my business. But it does become my business when the history of my ancestors and OUR history of civil rights becomes a mockery of a pseudo-civil rights! It just pisses me off to the highest degree because, once again, blacks are being used for something we should not allow ourselves to be apart of. Again, I have no problem with how one lives his/her lifestyle, but to fight for gay rights CAN NOT be at the expensive of using the example of a history that had a lot more to fight for than just ‘marriage’ and ‘tax rights’…because that’s what ‘gay civil rights’ is boiled down to. There are many people who work, live, play in many areas around this nation and no one would ever expect he/she is gay. It is completely different from being judge, ridiculed, and not get opprotunities because of SKIN COLOR…and that’s just the TIP of the iceberg. Black people need to wake the hell up and get out of LA LA Land. Every time WE try to gain exceptance…WE get a slap in the face!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/goldmember7776/ goldmember7776

    IF SAME SEXES WERE MENT TO MARRY THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO PRODUCE CHILDREN TOGETHER!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    This is BS!!

    I have nothing against Gays, but for them to compare their cause with that of Blacks in America…That I take umbrage to. Much like the so-called feminist movement, the gay movement is an invention meant to divide the masses. Gays, especially white gays have always had their rights and have permeated society from the start. Black gays on the other hand were/are accepted in Black society overall although not acknowledged explicitly, but tolerated, as everyone had an Aunt who was actually an uncle :-) LOL

    What they are trying to do is galvanize Blacks to support gay rights while in the meantime; Black rights have not been fully realized to date, the dream DEFERRED in favor of others. I call it a distraction to Black civil rights…. so that Blacks fight for gays while still being denied the dream. Gays never suffered slavery because of their sexual orientation, have been denied voting rights, land stolen from them, their families raped/separated and sold, killed because of the color of their skin nor have a need for a VOTING RIGHTS ACT which needs to be signed into law every so often! I could go on and on but at this point my only question is this: What is their (those in control) intent and agenda.

    Oh, and when any other immigrant or migrant population comes into the US, Blacks are always sidelined and marginalized by them and their causes via the powers that be…. Yep, that’s right—forget about the Blacks and focus on the Latinos, Russians, etc as they can and are added to mainstream America because they will eventually become part of the “Whitening of America”…. WAKE UP BALCK PEOPLE AND RECOGNIZE YOU ARE BEING USED!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KENN_is_the_MAN/ KENN_is_the_MAN

    Who came up with that dumb topic?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    Oh and stop eating everything the so called media and your IDOLS are SPOON FEDDING you….WAKE THE HELL UP!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Miamisfinest86/ Miamisfinest86

    i can see what she is saying being that gays are being discriminated against horribly in today’s society

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Majid070/ Majid070

    Can’t compare black struggle and gayness. That’s like trying to compare the pain of gettin shot in the chest to the pain of having a f*ckin hangnail. And I cant stand Tyra’s “cry on cue” lookin ass anyway. Just fake.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/it_iz_what_it_is/ it_iz_what_it_is

    Although I don’t believe in gay rights or homosexulity, looking at things from an objective and non extremist perspective I believe every human being deserves to be treated no less than the next regardless of their orientation. Here’s the catch, many gays don’t have respect for others. These folks keep crying wolf and trying to legitimize their cause by comparing it to the civil rights struggle, which is blashphemy. To the respect aspect of things, you have these down low brothas spreading diseases to our black women, committing rapings in jail, etc. There’s no way I can “respect” that. Women are at fault too for being for lack of a better word, stupid, naive, and so damn shallow. I’ll never believe someone is “born gay”. Nature is a powerful force, in the physical and meta physical sense. I can’t fathom a force like procreating ones species and spreading your genes on to be superceeded by an act such as homosexuality which doesn’t ensure the survival of a species or bring about new life. I believe this is just a fallacy and even so, if someone is born liking the same sex, and the key word is “liking” then upon them liking the same sex they still have to act upon it which shows premiditation(a choice is being made). You can’t tell me someone goes from liking to having sex with the same sex to being “born that way”. That just opens up a can of worms, is someone born to be a killer, a theif, a pedophile, etc? We all make choices in life and need to take full responsibility for them instead of making excuses.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lil_Money25/ Lil_Money25

    Is gay the new black?…
    to be blunt – no. -_-

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EmpressBee/ EmpressBee

    Discrimination is discrimination…whites used the Bible to discriminate against Blacks they even used science to say blacks were genetically inferior with smaller brains etc….it is no different today with homosexuality. People use the Bible as well as made-up scientific beliefs about gays to hate them and treat them horribly.
    All prejudice comes from the same place…and I don’t believe one can fight for the cause of blacks but ignore women’s rights,gay rights etc. Gay people are not asking for the right to be gay…they are ALREADY gay…they are asking for the right to the things all other citizens are given.

    People always personalize the subject and like to say what they think is natural or what God says and all that….when usually it is very hypocritical and also irrelevant. The United States is a melting pot of various people with various beliefs,lifestyles etc and ppl should have the liberty to live as they choose as long as it doesn’t harm others. What you would personally do and what you personally think should not matter in legislation.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jai170/ jai170

    the fact is straight people need too stop judging!! god said do not judge, look at you, sinning! yall say gay/lesbian is a sin, how about not!! “love” is not a sin.. god said love everyone, why you think this world so f**ked up!! and too use the bible as jusfieing ha, remeber man wrote the bible and they put stuff in there that doesnt make sence, god said love, do not judge, your not going too hell for being gay, period

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blasianbeauty_2006/ blasianbeauty_2006

    to me dat topic speaks volumes not only am i a black woman i am a black lesbian woman dis topic is what so many people need to discuss and i agree to an extent gay rights are very similar to civil rights gays may not be getting hung in trees but they are being killed in modern ways for their sexuality which if u wanna quote the bible it says thou shalt not kill remember and as far as marriage goes even straight people don’t need to be married and if their so happy why are divorce rates so high none of the points people make against gays on why they should’nt do ANYTHING are valid i can challenge all of them and thats saying alot all we is respect leave us be let god deal with not u its his kingdom not urs no human is perfect gay or straight so deal with it don’t make excuses for it thanks

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    at the end of the day, some people are confusing what tyra is trying to say. when they are saying, gay is the new black, we aren’t saying they are exactly equal, but the need for equality among people on opposing sides is the same. maybe not the struggle, but both have struggled. gays struggle every day wondering which biggot is going to kill them, or if they can adopt children. blacks struggle every day wondering if we are going to die because of our skin color. what we are trying to say is basic: black people struggled for rights gays are struggling for rights, both are civil rights movements that affect everyone. i feel like people downplay the struggle gays go through because people don’t accept them. honestly, from some of these comments, they are basically stereotyping, biggot-esque comments. sounds familiar to when white people talked ish about blacks to me. everyone has a right to their opinion, but its about respecting that opinion, and i feel like some peole on here are not respecting opinions. some of these people look like grown azz people, and you cannot just agree to disagree? those who say yes to the question whether gay is the new black, don’t entertain the biggotry that is bring thrown around, because at the end of the day, people are always going to HATE (see that hate, something whites did to blacks, make a mental note of that y’all) gays and lesbians because they dont take the time to understand it or they feel its their God given right to bash them. again, if God had a problem with it, we’d all be dead by now right? thought so. ok im done addressing the ignorance on here, i have better thinsg to do with my life than waste it on ignorant people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ltbeard25/ ltbeard25

    Damn, this a good topic to debate…and here’s my thoughts.

    Is Gay the new Black? No. Not the new Black, but there are some issues with gays in America, just like there’s still issues with being Black in America…or anywhere. There was a struggle for us to gain some sort of equality, and that same struggle is there for gays – not on the same level, but a struggle none-the-less.

    Then there’s the other side to the argument…Hell-To-The-Naw gay ain’t the new Black. Being Black is who we are, how we’re born, what flows inside us, what God intended us to be, etc. Being gay ain’t that. It was intended for us to be Black or White or whatever color we are and love each other. It was NOT intended for us to be gay. I believe when God created man and woman, it was for a MAN to be with a WOMAN. NOT GAY. That’s just my thoughts on this.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smack_u_silly/ smack_u_silly

    it’s ‘the new black’ or ‘new women’s right’ as any group of people being discriminated against.

    gays should have the same right to marry as straights. i could give less than a damn if two guys or two women get married. it ain’t costing me any money, so why should i care?

    people that are concerned aboutg who folks they don’t know date are some lonely, bitter folks. they actually make me laugh.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/babydoll_nicole/ babydoll_nicole

    If Gay’s is the new black then Leave them alone about what they are… They are people and they need respect like all people should respect them… I think everyone is picking at them because they can have a better life then straight… I think they are good to have as friends and as great buddy to hang around with…. So everyone Respect them as they are because if you dont then you will miss out on what u should of have as friends or a good buddy to hang with….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GhettoIndia02/ GhettoIndia02

    The black struggle and the gay struggle is no way the same thing. I did not wake up one day and choose to be black.on the other hand gays choose to be gay. I doubt there is a thing called the “gay gene”..but there is a “black gene”. YES.. black and gays deal with inequality but at the same time it is not the same..or “new black”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bmccrack/ bmccrack

    I think we need prayer! We live in a society that is becoming ever more influenced by the wilds of the devil. Instead of uniting in gods grace we fight. Satan is on both sides influencing and contaminating peoples minds and causing them to fall into homosexuality. On the other side satan is causing people to do and say acts of hate toward one another. In the end of the day both sides have sin and problems that only prayer can fix.

    Jesus Wept

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bmccrack/ bmccrack

    I think our media is also a cause of homosexuality growth. Homosexuality are being fed to children in cartoons such as Spongebob, South Park, etc. These topics should not appear in supposedly innocent cartoons. Children should not be concerned about sexuality period they are too young.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Hattie3/ Hattie3

    I am not going to take the judgment position, I will just say this, you have to allow these people the right to live as they chose. My reason for saying this is because as tyra stated we are all a people and this hatred effects us all as a people. For once in history this is a issue that I feel only God can and will judge (for all the scripture quotors let go and let God) Do you understand the pressure you put on a people when you dont allow gays to be gays? probably not, well let me tell you, you give birth to more hate more pain and I can sum that up to you in acouple words HERE THEY ARE ***DOWN LOW***

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/keyanna_d/ keyanna_d

    u know ppl kill me ,holy holy , put this on your brain ppl are ppl being gay has nothing to do with god,gay ppl believe in god it the godly ppl that turn them from god ,, also because some one is diffrent does mean that they are evik they choose to live that way for what they feel is write hands down must ppl that talk all godly are evil too i seen it first hand it not for u to judge and tell ppl u need prayer that gods job , in the end many ppl will be real suprize wen the truth comes out and all that crap that they are feed bout god aint true… use commonsense thats why god gave it to u..i love god but i also know that it not for u to judge someone actions wen behide close door u doing worst

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    The comments are pouring in on this topic. Imma sit this one out.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/koffee_brown21/ koffee_brown21

    Wow.. this is so interesting.. I’m conflicted with this topic.. Both topics have and is still dealing with forms of discrimination, but I think one is a little more severe than the other, which is being Black… Over a hundred years of slavery and oppression does not compare to people always quoting the bible to gays..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Blitz_on_um/ Blitz_on_um

    Gay couldn’t compare to being black in a lifetime.. Like GhettoIndia02 said, “You don’t choose to be black but a person does choose to be gay”.. And for a gay person to say they were born that way is “Bulls**t”..U have to come out of the womb, open your eyes, and determine what gender it is that you like.. U can’t make a decision as a fetus about what you like….Nah, gay is far from the new black.. Yeah they do face inequalities like blacks, but living on this earth as a black man is a curse in itself..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ket_Ket/ Ket_Ket

    I don’t like that comparison…I have no problem with gay people…but don’t compare the fight for gay rights and black people’s fight for civil rights. Gay people haven’t been enslaved, haven’t had dogs put on them, and haven’t had fire hoses turned on them. I do agree that they should be treated like any other citizen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    Just an FYI, gays were enslaved during the Holocaust. Hitler put them in concentration camps.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AllBizSumPlay_1/ AllBizSumPlay_1

    I’m Going To Give An Answer Of The Highest Intelligence To An Intellectually Lazy Question ……………………………………………………………..
    AT THE POINT OF CONCEPTION , TWO PEOPLE ARE STAGED IN THE ACT OF PROCREATION … THE THIRD PARTY/INTITY , YET TO EXIST IS BEING CONCEIVED … NO HEART , NO MIND ,
    NO CONSCIENCE, NO DESIRES NOR PREFERENCES . DNA ,ONE’S GENETIC MAKE UP, IS THE CODE OF ONE’S ETHNIC POOL. MEANING ANCESTRY, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS RACE … AFTER WHICH ONE IS DEVELOPED IN THE WOMB AND BORN , ONE MATURES . THE OCCURRENCES OF THIS MATURATION PROCESS ARE CURIOSITY, EVALUATION , FASCINATION AND DESIRE . THESE ARE THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH ONE DETERMINES TO ADVANCE ON ONE’S CURIOSITY , EVALUATION , FASCINATION AND DESIRE ……. YET NEITHER OF THESE ARE FACTORS AT THE POINT OF CONCEPTION TO DETERMINE ONE’S RACE . _____________________________________________Please Stop Allowing Intellectually Lazy Opportunists To Use Our Ancestors Glorious Legacy To Further Their Personal Agendas !!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    GAYS DYING FROM BEING BEATEN TO DEATH ISNT EQUAL TO BEING KILLED FOR UR COLOR? DEATH IS DEATH, HATE IS HATE, AND ALL OF IT SHOULD STOP. GOD TEACHES US TO LOVE EVERY CHILD OF HIS, AND IF UR NOT DOING THAT, THEN U CAN NEVER EVER EVER CALL URSELF A CHILD OF GOD

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/curvydiva88/ curvydiva88

    GAY MAY NOT BE THE NEW BLACK, BUT GAY BASHERS ARE THE NEW KKK

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GILGEMESH-OH/ GILGEMESH-OH

    GAYS AINT NO WHERE NEAR BLACK.
    GAYS EITHER SAY THEY WERE BORN GAY OR LATER IN YEARS BECAME GAY.

    WE WERE BORN BY THE STRUGGLE TO THE BONE SINCE THE 14 CENTURY.
    THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DIDN’T GIVE GAYS COCAINE IN THE GHETTO.
    DIDNT HAVE LIQUOR STORES AND CIGARETTES VENDING MACHINES IN THE GHETTOS.
    ENSLAVEMENT THROUGH HALF A MILLENIUM.
    SO TELL ME THIS, WHAT MAKES A GAY BLACK MAN?
    A BLACK MAN, A GAY, OR A MAN?
    GAYS WILL NEVER BE THE BLACK.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chictatious1/ chictatious1

    people are such idiots to compare anything to history of racism towards black people. the only thing that i can see that could come close is the holocaust. name calling and hate crimes is nothing compare to what has been done to our ancestors. people say the most ridiculous things just for publicity…GROW UP!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/elitewoman30/ elitewoman30

    Gays are not the new black no way……………..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/well_duh/ well_duh

    Are you serious?? How could Tyra have formed her mouth to say those words!!!! Oh, I get it. She’s stupid.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tall_11/ tall_11

    Dayummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! and to think i actually gave her some credit. here a better question. is tyra the new black blonde

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    DA,M IT! GAY IS NOT THE”NEW BLACK” WHAT YALL TRYING TO SAY? “THE NEW HELL”! GAY IS GAY! SAD TO SAY, ROCK N ROLL IS THE NEW BLACK! ROCK N ROLLERS ARE GOIN TO HELL! SORRI FOLX! THE “LONG HORN” IS THE “BAPHOMET!” THE SIGN OF SATAN! DUH! ASK ANY WITCH OR WARLOCK!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Papa-Jon/ Papa-Jon

    Goes to show that it takes more than good looks and a few tv shows to develop intelligence. I guess Tyra is a natural blond afterall…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/King_KJ1/ King_KJ1

    THEY ARE VERY SIMILAR.. YOU ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN AND ARE STILL GETTING TREATED UNFAIRLY BECAUSE YOU ARE DIFFERENT. TYRA WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT “SLAVERY” SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT “CIVIL RIGHTS” (EVERYONE) SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A CHANCE TO BE HAPPY AND GET TREATED FAIRLY.. IF THEY PASS GAY MARRIAGE.. IS IT THE END OF THE WORLD? WILL IT MAKE THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE FOR A STRAIGHT PERSON TO SEE A GAY PERSON WITH A RING ON THERE FINGER OR THERE FINGER BEING BARE?? IT SHOULD NOT MATTER WHAT PEOPLE DO.. SO FOR A BLACK PERSON TO NOT SYMPATHISE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS FIGHTING TO BE TREATED FAIRLY BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT THEY ARE BEING HYPOCRYTES.. BOTTOM LINE. AND NOT ONLY BLACK PEOPLE BUT ALL PEOPLE IN GENERAL BECUASE EVERYONE GETS TREATED UNFAIRLY AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    F**K YOU TYRA! I HOPE GOD POURS A ROUTE 44 SIZE CUP OF BRIMSTONE UP YOUR ASS FOR MISLEADING OUR WOMEN OF COLOR!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    TYRA “SKANKS” LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    TYRA BANKS AND CREFLO NEED TO GET TOGETHER! TYRA BANKS-DOLLAR! NOW THATS NEWS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tall_11/ tall_11

    lawd have mercy yo geaogetown there is rehab for whatever it is you`re on . it did not call for all that. whatever it is you`re on there are rehab centers for it. you clearly took things to far . your views and comments were of bad taste and clearly uncalled for.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Haydenchan86/ Haydenchan86

    Can people really quote tyra saying that she said “Gay is the new black?” lol i don’t really think so i think people are overexaggurating it. The whole point of the show is to debate the comparison of gay civil rights to regular civil rights not to justify that they are the same lol … you guys are reading way too far into this

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jubaliant/ jubaliant

    Black and Gay are totally different, no comparison….Being gay is a choice to yield to the lies of the enemy to the mind….Being Gay can be compared to mental illness however….Being Black is not a choice and Gays have never suffered as blacks has in this country and aboard…And the instruction manuel(Bible) states plainly that HEll is enlarging itself daily to hold all those who choose to live contrary to it’s word….I love the people but hate the SIN…….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy/ ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy

    Being gay is not a choice. Just like being black is not a choice. Learn the facts. No one would “choose” to be gay and face hatred from people like the hatred all of you are showing. You can say the bible says being gay is a sin but what about you for judging others and not letting God be the judge? Kind of hypocritical, no? Live your life and let others live theirs.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tall_11/ tall_11

    after reading the whole story i have to say i`m sorry to tyra, i misread it.but with that being said i have to say this. NO BY FAR BEING GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK . being black is not a choice we never had a choice in this matter .But clearly gay did. and the fact that being gay and going thru a struggle is being compared to being black and going thru a struggle is way of a different matter. Lets all be real here for a moment if you ared gay and you`re going thru a struggle it`s self inflicted. so lets all keep in mind of a serious point . In the begining God created adam .and when God felt adam needed a compainion he made eve . so you can say anything you want on this matter God did not put another man on this earth for adam he took the rib from adam to make eve and called her woman. now thats the fact.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AllBizSumPlay_1/ AllBizSumPlay_1

    Just Curious … Why The New Black ??
    Instead Of Saaaaaay … The New Mexican Or The New Jewish Or The New Native American ?? Why Do Sooooooo Many Opportunists Seek To Dump This Filth On Black ??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tall_11/ tall_11

    and to ms ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy you clearly do not need to comment on any matter concerning being black you have no and i mean No clue on the matter. so your comment must beof the gay side of this.lets allow the real black people to have this one for you are way to out of this one.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tall_11/ tall_11

    and further more if you are not black or gay your comment should have not even been displayed . for you know nothing of either matter

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AllBizSumPlay_1/ AllBizSumPlay_1

    Where There Is No Light The People Will Perish .

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dominicanbabe90/ dominicanbabe90

    i deff agree with jubaliant

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy/ ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy

    Oh and BTW, I work a counselor in the mental health/drug addiction field and I see NO comparision to being gay and being mentally ill, there is no way to compare that

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tall_11/ tall_11

    what does that have to fo with the subject at hand? not a single thing . again i say way out of bounds for you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/yea_that_gurl/ yea_that_gurl

    omg ppl…are so judgemental and hypocritical…iam gay and being gay is not a choice…we dont wake up and say i think i wanna be gay today..its who we are.ppl are saying that its a choice clearly dont know what they are talking about…we dont choose this just like we didnt choose our race. yall are saying that its a sin and its in the bible…but over looked the part where it says do not judge…we face hate and we’re judged everyday for just trying to be us and be happy and its not right… for those of u that wanna quote what the bible says…and so called live by the bible then do as it says n stop judging those of us in the gay community…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy/ ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy

    First of all, me not being black or not being gay is not the topic, as I am neither, nor is it relevant. You’re saying just because I am not gay or black I cannot have an opinion on the matter and be able to express my opinion? I was not being rude or nasty to anyone on here, so what’s the problem? I was commenting on the topic and the comments I read and I’m not saying being gay is the new black, I was just stating my opinion. Isn’t that what this is all about? Isn’t it my right to be able to speak my mind, just like you? And, like I said, I was not being rude or nasty to anyone so I don’t know why people have to spit so much hate when someone is just expressing their opinion. I have no problem with anyone here and I’m not trying to start one. G’night everyone and have a great weekend.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/well_duh/ well_duh

    ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy are you serious?? How is being gay NOT a choice? You choose who you want to be in a relationship with, albeit male or female. Once again, how is it NOT a choice?!!?

    Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Leviticus 18:22.

    ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy, for your information. The bible clearly says that being gay is a sin. Since that is clearly stated, we are not judging. We’re merely quoting.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy/ ArEUDaTSoMeBoDy

    “Oh and BTW, I work a counselor in the mental health/drug addiction field and I see NO comparision to being gay and being mentally ill, there is no way to compare that”

    This was a comment that was directed at someone else’s post saying you can compare being gay to being mentally ill.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/APRILKG428/ APRILKG428

    This question was not asking whether you like gays or not. This question is asking should a gay person be treated equally as everyone else, and yes they should, they are people, regardless of their sexual preference. And yes gays do get judged on that, and they shouldn’t. It’s like asking should someone be discriminated against because they have a deformed face? No they shouldn’t, people are people, people are different from each other, and people should be treated equally, white, black, gay, straight, deaf, blind, whatever. And as far as all of you who have so much hate and anger towards gay people, only god can judge, and you are all NOT god, being gay does not classify you as a good or bad person, and just because you guys live your life by a freakin man-made book, and want to sit there and claim being gay as a sin and they should be punished for that, think about all of the daily “sins” YOU commit everyday, I mean I dont think discriminating or punishing someone is a very “holy” thing to do either, the bible is up to interpretation, and just because YOU interpret it that way, does not mean that everyone else has to think the same way you do, and what YOU say is not automatically correct. Gays have every right to fight for there rights, and no I would not compare the struggle with guys to the struggle with black people, because it is a different struggle, however, they are both fighting for the same thing, and that is to be treated fairly in this country, and there is nothing wrong with that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/APRILKG428/ APRILKG428

    and I definitely meant to say “the struggle with gays” not guys…hahaha typo!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tall_11/ tall_11

    STOP PEOPLE DAMMIT STOP!!!!!! WHY ARE WE ARGUEING ABOUT EVERYTHING BUT THW TOPIC AT HAND . NOONE IS JUDGING ANYONE WE ARE ALL SAYING THE SAME THING HERE JUST GOING ABOUT IT A DIFERENT WAY. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LISTEN TO OURSELVES. WE ARE MAKING THE POINT AT HAND SECONDARY TO WHAT WE FEEL ABOUT GAYS AND NOT BEING GAY .THE QUESTION WAS IS BEING GAY THE NEW DAMN BLACK. AND NO IT`S NOT PLAIN AND SIMPLE STICK TO THE TOPIC AND NOT WHAT WE WANT OUR POINTS TO BE.GAY STRIGHT DOESNT MATTER. BUT I WILL SAY THIS TO THE YOUNG LADY THATS GAY THATS YOUR CHOICE AND IF ANYONE IS COOL WITH IT IT`S ME . NOW WHAT GOD WILL SAY WHEN YOU STABND BEFORE HIM IS BETWEEN YOU AND HIM. BUT LETS GET BACK ON THE POINT AND NOT ON THE BASHING OF ONE ANOTHER.LAWD HAVE MERCY!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    Apparently you people don’t read and are too quick o interject your opinion. Please read the responses and respond responsibly or not at all. Gays and Blacks do NOT have a common history in regards to civil rights. Those who believe that have truly been indoctrinated by the so call leaders/in control and have lost a sense of what the Black struggle means/meant—OoooooHHHH! That’s right, Black history/struggle is not taught but yet they teach about gay rights!!!!! BLACKS are such an easy target and such suckers—The are easily fooled to digress from their cause and on to other people’s causes….What fools Blacks are!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    See—’Gay’ day coming to California public schools?
    Lawmakers vote to make children honor Harvey Milk – without parent consent @

    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97263

    and see how your children are being taught gay is the new black!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    It’s absurd that government schools teach children not to smoke or use drugs, yet would teach children as young as kindergarten that homosexuality is good and healthy and maybe even for them. That’s just not true.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tall_11/ tall_11

    THANK YOU MY BROTHER

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Arrielle2007/ Arrielle2007

    No I dont. I am not in any way homophobic but the Gay rights struggle is nowhere near the level of the civil rights struggle. When gay men and women start getting lynched for being gay, are turned around from public places, are denied the right to vote, are made to live in poor living conditions then we can compare the two. You can always hide your sexuality but you can never hide the color of your skin. Im not trying to minimize their struggle but it is nowhere near the level of struggle blacks endured for hundreds of years. Ive never heard of a homosexual slavery…. please tell me where it is in the history books.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sweet711/ sweet711

    no i dont think it the new BLACK struggle but a struggle none the less

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ebonyblazer251/ ebonyblazer251

    @well_duh: I’ve got a bit of a problem with the logic in your last comment (1:05 am).

    In stating your belief that homosexuality is a choice, you’ve basically reduced it to the act of sex and the ‘choice’ of a same-sex partner. I’m not sure that makes sense, and it certainly doesn’t prove your point.

    Let’s say I am a hetero virgin. It’s women who ‘make my nature rise’, but for whatever reason, I haven’t met the right lady to do the do with–or, I’ve just made my celibacy an intentional choice until I get married or enter a committed relationship. So since I have no active sex life at all, am I really a heterosexual person, or not?

    You can’t reduce heterosexuality to the act of sex anymore than you can for homosexuality. I say all of that to note that my ONLY real opposition to homosexuality is the little issue of me being romantically and sexually attracted to females. If my gay or lesbian brothers/sisters/neighbors tell me they were born that way (or predisposed, to be more accurate), I’m gonna believe them–especially considering I know the origins of my own orientation.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/APRILKG428/ APRILKG428

    Like I said, the black struggle and the gay struggle are two different struggles, but they are both fighting for the same thing, civil rights! Civil meaning Citizens, citizens of this country, gays are citizens and deserve the same rights as everyone else and should not be judged against because of their sexual preference. This is a government issue, not a religious issue. And why shouldn’t children be learning about this in school? It’s a legitimate topic in government.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/APRILKG428/ APRILKG428

    Gay people have been set on fire, beaten to death etc. If that is not discrimination, I don’t know what is.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/YOURNAWTEEGIRL/ YOURNAWTEEGIRL

    @WELL_DUH
    YES YOU CHOOSE WHO YOU ARE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH BUT YOU DO NOT CHOOSE WHO YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO…DID YOU CHOOSE TO BE ATTRACTED TO MEN?…YOU CANNOT CHOOSE YOUR FEELINGS
    THE ONLY CHOICE A GAY PERSON MAKES IS TO BE THEMSELVES…AND TO NOT DENY WHO THEY ARE…
    YOU CANNOT CHOOSE WHO YOU LOVE
    YES BEING GAY IS SOMETHING YOU ARE BORN WITH JUST LIKE BEING BLACK IS SOMETHING YOU WERE BORN WITH YOU CANNOT CHOOSE YOUR SKIN COLOR AND YOU CANNOT CHOOSE YOUR SEXUALITY…WHY WOULD ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIGHT CHOOSE TO BE GAY IF IT WAS SOMETHING THEY COULD CONTROL?…THIS IS WHERE IT’S SIMILAR..BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO DEAL WITH HATE CRIMES SO DO GAY PEOPLE…BLACK PEOPLE DIDN’T CHOOSE TO BE BLACK GAY PEOPLE DIDN’T CHOOSE TO BE GAY…ONE ADVANTAGE GAY PEOPLE HAVE THOUGH IS THEY CAN HIDE BEING GAY BLACK PEOPLE CAN’T HIDE BEING BLACK..GAY PEOPLE DON’T HAVE ISSUES GETTING CABS OR ANY STUPID S**T LIKE THAT
    AND ONE ADVANTAGE STR8 BLACK PEOPLE HAVE IS THEY HAVE THE FREE F**KIN’ RIGHT TO GET MARRIED WHENEVER THEY CHOOSE TO
    WHY WOULD SOMEONE CHOOSE TO BE GAY ONLY TO BE DENIED TO MARRY THE PERSON THEY LOVE?????
    LOVE IS NEVER WRONG
    AND TO THE PERSON BELOW ME WHO SAID IT’S WRONG TO TEACH KIDS BEING GAY IS GOOD OR HEALTHY
    YOU KNOW WHAT’S UNHEALTHY?? IS PEOPLE DENYING WHO THEY ARE AND LIVING A DAMN LIE TO PLEASE IGNORANT SOCIETY…TO PLEASE THESE NARROW MINDED ASS PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID OF ANYTHING DIFFERENT THEN THEMSELVES
    HOMOSEXUALITY IS HERE TO STAY PEOPLE…DEAL WITH IT
    THE BIBLE MAY SAY BEING GAY IS WRONG BUT SO IS CASTING JUDGEMENT…GOD LOVES ALL HIS CHILDREN
    BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD SYMPATHIZE WITH GAY PEOPLE CUZ YALL KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST FOR SOMETHING YOU CANNOT CONTROL..PERIOD

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ebonyblazer251/ ebonyblazer251

    We need to get this thought out of our heads that anyone is seriously trying to claim that the gay/lesbian rights debate is EXACTLY like the struggle for civil rights. Anyone who would say that deserves ridicule.

    Having said that, we also need to stop taking offense that gays & lesbians are citing the history of the Civil Rights Movement, and finding inspiration from it. The Civil Rights Movement was the greatest human rights effort ever. Nobody owns it, not John Lewis, not Jesse Jackson, not Black People, not the King Family, not McDonald’s (during the month of January), NOBODY. There is nothing shameful about the inspirational comparisons of gay/lesbian rights to civil rights, because both have been about fortifying HUMAN RIGHTS guaranteed under the law.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mZbOsS09/ mZbOsS09

    Ok people ! Well I grew up around a christian family and always went to chruch. I always agreed that there should be gay marriage. These are people to and they deserve the same respect as anyone else in this world. It is so sad how this world has so much hate for people. People always want to use the bible in this situation. But they need to also read that one sin is no greater than another. And people who are christians may not go to heaven themselves. Who are we to judge anyone we are no different from them. Look I am not gay, and I am also a christian women. But to me this situation is something i have to agree on. we as christian people should not hate and that right there is not love that God wants us to express to others good nite !!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NIKKII2008/ NIKKII2008

    It’s a discrimination 2 god being gay and all u real Christians know what’s up simple is that…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/simple_grasp1/ simple_grasp1

    Having thoughts and acting on thoughts are two different things.
    If you think about killing someone does that make you a killer? or if you think about cussing a person out does that make you foul mouthed?

    So it isn’t thinking about having relations that makes a man gay it is acting on those thoughts.

    No matter how a person acts their DNA genes will always remain the same.

    to compare race to a behavior is absolutely absurd. Those who want to compare race to a behavior as being equivalent, should then have no problem with a racist white man judging you by the color of your skin. Since after all behavior is uncontrollable like race.

    As soon as it sounds to reason that a behavior is uncontrollable like the race of a human being than other absurd arguments come into play.

    One can then argue that a man is born a killer, and born with murderous insane desires.
    we know that this is just plain wrong. So you can’t use partial judgment in this matter. I.e. Homosexuality is not a choice but murder is. No both are a choice. It is then outrageous and illogical to argue race and behavior as being the same if one is in support of gay rights.

    Homosexuality is a psychosis, A state of mind that is infact curable. There have been plenty of gay men that have turn from the homosexual lifestyle to the heterosexual lifestyle.

    Notice homosexuality is optionally called an “alternative lifestyle”. Meaning it is choice that is made. No one can force you to Kiss and to lust after the same sex.

    I am firmly against homosexuality, male or female. However, I believe all men and women should be treated equally so as long as they are law abiding citizens.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Soulful_Healer/ Soulful_Healer

    @1:52am, Dude, Sir, Ma’am. You don’t have one Iota of an ideal of what you are talking about when trying to discuss how people learn to love and learn and identify sexuality. I suggest you look into some human development books at all levels, especially in the early years. You have posted very, very, inaccurate information. I hope people don’t buy into your viewpoints and some research of their own.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/APRILKG428/ APRILKG428

    How can YOU compare killing to acting on being gay?? Being gay is not harming anyone. That is a bad comparison.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Soulful_Healer/ Soulful_Healer

    @2:19am, well said and just what I wanted to say. I just didn’t want to put that much energy into the dumb statement said earlier.

    However, I do not believe people who live immoral lives and do immoral things should be praised.

    They should be counseled to repent and to reform their sinful un-natural abnormal behaviors and ways.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Soulful_Healer/ Soulful_Healer

    @2:19 again, that is the dumb statement of 1:52am that was said earlier. the person don’t have a clue. They should read your post over and over again until they are well educated.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/simple_grasp1/ simple_grasp1

    APRILKG428

    Killing and homosexuality are only comparable in the case that it is looked at as an action or behavior. Action and behavior is not apart of a persons DNA. Action and behavior is a choice.

    Again, thinking about something does not define who you are until that thought is sown in the person.
    So that at the point it is sown in, the seed must bear fruit because it is in the ground of a persons heart.

    A boy may think about doing drugs at some point in his teenage life. Does that then mean the boy is a drug addict? By no means. so thinking about sexual relations with a man doesn’t make a person gay. Point is no one is born gay. Just like no one is born a murderer. You only become at the point of acting on it, just as you only become a murderer on the point of acting on those murderous thoughts.

    should that thought of using drugs ever become sown in the boys heart that seed will bear fruit. He will try drugs for the first time.

    So thinking about kissing a person of the same sex and acting on it are two entirely different things.

    Martin Luther king said he would rather have it that a man be judged by the content of his heart than the color of his skin.

    Obviously “black”, “Hispanic”, “Latino”, and “asian” is not a thought or behavior.

    Homosexuality is a behavior. So to compare something that is an action, and behavior to something that is an adjective and noun is not rational.

    Race does not define character.

    Homosexuality on the other hand is a characteristic and action.

    I can’t judge a person by what they think only God can do that.

    I can judge a person by what they say and do.

    When talking about homosexuality we are not talking about pigmentation or humanity, we are talking about a lifestyle that is chosen.

    Yes being gay is harming. It is harming to the minds of Men that should be acting like men and women that should be action like women.

    Instead we see homosexual men acting effeminate, and women trying to act like men.

    It is a psychological disease. this is why we should stand against it as Americans.

    As christians we should love with kindness and caring words towards the homosexual community. Warn them of the Judgment to come, and stay away from hostility toward the person, but very hostile towards the act as every sin.

    All sin is bad sin to God. Love your neighbor as yourself. That is the second greatest commandment.

    We should all stand for equality as human beings. Gays should have the rights to medical services and any other human right.

    Marriage on the other hand is something that is a Spiritual and moral matter.

    A man should not be joined to a man. Neither should a women be joined to a women. If God had intended that sort of thing the world would have never been populated or repopulated.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Macthaknife615/ Macthaknife615

    The gay rights struggle is definitely the new black rights struggle. The only difference is that they’re attacking a lifestyle instead of race. Who are we decide what is right and wrong? I’m 100% heterosexual, but I believe that we all, gay or straight, are the same in general. We all need food, water and shelter. We all bleed the same. It’s just a different lifestyle. If things were reversed and everyone was homosexual (only God knows how we’d reproduce), would it be wrong to be straight? Would we as the few straight people be persecuted because we decide to be straight?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nasty-Ian-69/ Nasty-Ian-69

    In the Bible is says that f****ts should be killed is all I know.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/APRILKG428/ APRILKG428

    LOL this convo is gettin hilarious now

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/APRILKG428/ APRILKG428

    All those words and you still havent made one valid point to the topic at hand, maybe in your own mind I guess, oh and to Nasty-Ian-69, you should have just kept your stupid comment out of this convo, u just made christians look bad by saying that stupid remark about the bible.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/APRILKG428/ APRILKG428

    And once again, this is NOT an issue of religion, this is an issue about government and a citizens rights to be able to walk down a street without being killed or brutally beaten for their sexual orientation, its about not being told how to live there life by the government because the government wants to now refer to religion, whatever happened to seperation of church and state!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sharinda/ Sharinda

    This is no where a black rights issue. The black right issue was an issue regareding blacks having the right as an individual as a human being to be equal. being able to have rights that they were denied because of their skin color. Remember the white man brought the Africans over here for enslavement when they were in Africa living free. had it not been for the lazyness and trifliness of the white man then things probably would have been different. The reality of the issue is that if you are a gay/lesbian you have the right as a human being that blacks did not have at that time so this is totally difference. This is the issue of the gay community trying to FORCE their lifestyle on someone. My thing is if you are trying to force it on someone so bad, you must know that it is wrong. It is uncivilized to be a homosexuality. Everyone wants to claim that the bible speaks about plucking an eye out. that is in the OLD testament which we no longer live by we are in the new testament. I am listening to this guy crying about being gay. Blacks were not concerned about anyone hating them. Just respect me and give me the right that you have to vote. You want me to live in society and not be heard. If you are comfortable in your sexuality why cry, why care what someone else thinks unnless you know that it is wrong and unacceptable. if you’re gonna be gay, be gay. But don’t force me to accept it. don’t force me to repsect it. Because I don’t. I do not respect a homosexuality and I do not think that marriage should be legalized.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/greekmulatta/ greekmulatta

    I dont think we will ever have a present situation that is comparable to the civil rights era…so my answer is NO, not comparable. I do think Sharinda should go learn some stuff tho..although her intentions and message is good..she is incorrect on a few things…also her reasons for saying it isnt comparable is based on that blacks are humans …sooo gays arent? I understand and feel for the LGBT struggle..but I do not think anyone can compare it to being denied the rights blacks were banned from up until the 60′s. Right now the LGBT can vote, share bathrooms, sit where they like and everything else blacks couldnt do. during our movement.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/djazz58/ djazz58

    i understand what Tyra is saying …but Gays are not some new race of people ..there is only the human race..and there are gays in all races…the reason gays are pursecuted is because of homophobia ,but this has nothing to do with being black,..gays were not made slave for 400 yrs

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chanell_on_fire/ chanell_on_fire

    im not sure if its comparable but Sharinda you are full of shyt
    yea black people was denied from alot of things and that was messed up and i do understand if your not gay but you just talking bullshyt right now
    how can u say gay people are trying to force themselves at you aint nobody tried to make u gay in anyway they are just asking for their own lifestyle wheather u like it or not you should respect them regardless of your sexuality black people was denied of voting and sittin in front of the bus etc they are denied to marry and have kids its not less bad as that the only reason i see u against it that because your not sure about your own sexuality they dont threat you in any way so why are u threating them? just because your issue was skin color and their issue is lifestyle it dont mean they dont deserve to have rights
    im not gay either but i do think they should have their rights and be free to get married to the ones they love and have kids just like you and me
    what if u have kids and one of them grow to be gay would u deny them? because they going against your willing? i doubt that and if you would then i just feel sorry for them and even more for you
    being against gay rights is being narrow minded and im sorry to say it but you are narrow minded cuz u dont accept the people that are different then you and the people that hold different way of life and thinking

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rockwilder1911/ rockwilder1911

    well I know who show im not gonna watch!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hersheyschocolate87/ hersheyschocolate87

    me, personally have nothin against gay people or gay marriage, what they do is their business but i dont think u can call gay the new black. they have no idea has it is to be black, i’m a black woman who happens to be dark skin. not only am i descrimated against for my race, but also for the shade of my skin. I always being acuse of being african, jamaican or in something of that sort. and im neither. im american. Born and raised in houston tx. And i also believe u do choose to be gay, ur not born gay, u have a choice rather u wanna be gay or not. we as black ppl cant choose our skin color. if we could we all probably be white. since they have it so much easier. our people were treated like dogs, couldnt share in the same restuarants, water foundtains, sits and etc. Emmitt till got killed for just whisling or however u spell it at a white woman. i dont hear about no gay ppl gettin killed. and if they are dyin its from diseases not straight ppl. its still hard out hear for blacks. What? ya’ll think things have really change b/c we have a black president. i’ll admit its changing but not so much. its hard out here, and im fed up with it. basically i dont believe that gay is the new black. Gay is a choice, black is not.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Alyazone/ Alyazone

    Gay is in all races…lol That is really dum I never heard the B***h be so Stupid…lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CUTIPY25/ CUTIPY25

    Give me a break!….that’s why this world need the Lord like never before…being gay is so acceptable now until it doesn’t make sense….this world is coming to an end… we are living in the last and evil days….Satan is taking over this world more and more…but we as christians need to continue to stay on the wall and do what we are suppose to do and win souls to God…this world is going to do what it knows to do..EVIL….I don’t expect anything less..IT’S TIME TO GET YOUR LIVES RIGHT WITH GOD ONLY GOD CAN HELP US!! GOD BLESS U BP!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BrOOklyns_BLck_ShEEp/ BrOOklyns_BLck_ShEEp

    I don’t think that Gay is the new Black but I feel the similarity between the two. Yes slavery happened and yes people were killed because of their skin color but nowadays Gay ppl are getting bashed and murdered for the sexual preference……a right is a right and if you can sit here and say that a Gay couple doesn’t have the right to marry then you are just as bad as the white ppl saying that Black folks cannnot and will not vote. Even so homosexuality has been on this earth for years, it just didn’t have a title at the time. It was accepted at one point but now it isn’t and especially in these times where most people feel like everyone that’s Gay does drugs or has had a very battered childhood. Most of the anger stems from homophobia and I feel really sorry for those ppl that cannot accept it. Whose to say that your child will not become gay? Whose to say that the people that you consider the closest of friends are not Gay? The gay community deserves just as much respect and the same rights as anybody else. How can we become so ignorant to what we do and how we act towards others? As the saying goes “You can’t get respect without getting it”. Geez people most of the things you buy and wear tend to be manufactured by the community…….do you really feel that they should not marry? If people are so stuck on the bible then maybe you shouldn’t rush to a hospital when you get sick asking for the next vaccine…….since the Bible does not condone evolution…….SMH

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Peninsulachick/ Peninsulachick

    NO! Gay is NOT the new black…C’mon people, please try to apply common sense. A child is born, it’s race is readily concluded based upon the usual clues. You don’t have to wait/wonder for 17, 25, 35 or more years to determine a person’s race, neither can they “out” themselves by one day having a sitdown with dear old conservative mom and dad. Homosexuality, on the other hand, is a lifestyle CHOICE; a person decides if they want to engage in homosexuality, and that is the part that bothers me the most. If you choose to be a homosexual, fine. PLEASE do not insult my race and the struggles endured by me and my ancestors because of it. I’ve not heard of homosexuals eve rbeing referred to as “3/5 of a human being”, or of literature being created that describes the care & maintenance of a homosexual in much the same way that cattle is treated, or of homosexuals being “sold” at auction, where, by the way, they were inspected beforehand in the same way livestock is.
    Again, NO comparison, as the struggle for homosexual equality can in no wise be compared to what has been and is currently being experienced by blacks in America. You can divest yourself of homosexuality and it’s labels or associated stigmas, but you are black, no matter what you do, or say or how you act. Want proof? Ask Michael, Oprah, Li’l Kim or that chucklehead Tyra. All that question tells me is that she has NO understanding or APPRECIATION of the suffering experienced by her forebears, and that any classes she took in African_American studies was for naught.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/aya-22/ aya-22

    If u think gay is the new black, then you must be gay or something other then black simple no comparasons period! People are funny lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kain1984/ kain1984

    gays are an abomination simple until they prove that you can be born gay it should be illegal i was born black i didnt choose to be so there is no similarity

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ARTIST_N_EXILE1/ ARTIST_N_EXILE1

    Its a valid question. Some people are in an uproar about the comparison but discrimination of any sort shouldn’t be allowed. Of course we have no decision on our race but whose to day that we have any decision on our sexual preference. I don’t feel that its a choice. it may be for some people but that can’t be true for everyone. if it were then the suicide rates for gay people wouldn’t be so high if it were as simple as making a decision to be hetero.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rose_city/ rose_city

    no gay isn’t the new black black people can’t get jobs, gay people are the some of the riches people in USA. Their ain’t no gay ghettos, a gay person can act or turn straight, blacks can’t turn white

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/davettalashley/ davettalashley

    In a word, NO.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/wirehoncho/ wirehoncho

    The subject has been coined in the same context well over the past 20 some odd years. It might be great way to spin a topic to get people talking about the discrimination factor involved with both, BUT, for as long as I have been alive and black on this planet, none of my forefathers or I have never experienced “Don’t ask, don’t tell” when it comes to race. Even when we have had people that could have passed as white, the one drop rule was invoked (Plessy v. Ferguson) Has there ever been a law imposed to permanently label someones sexual orientation? No. The only real comparison to being black to homosexual comes in the form of legally recognizing interracial (black with white) to same sex marriage (see Loving v. Virginia, 1967) Beyond that, there is no comparison.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/19_miss_angel_89/ 19_miss_angel_89

    Gay isnt da new black, but they do share the same problems as us black ppl did…
    My best friend is gay and i hate to see ppl judge him before they got to kno him… I got into alot of agruement over him.. And some of my friend still ask me why do i hang out wit him “he is gay”. They dont understand dat he have feelings just like everyone else. So if he decide to be gay he shouldnt be beat up for it. Dat just like me wanted to beat yo a** for havin cancers, bcuz i dont have it and dont understand… Yall need to think about how others feel and not just yoself…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NoPaperGangstas/ NoPaperGangstas

    No gay right issues are not the new black struggles. I consider them the same concept. The issue of sexuality has been a political, religious and social battle for along time on all continents in this world. The U.S. has had a very hard time dealing with social issues that set groups of people aside from the normal white male and white female. Any minority in america who is not straight or white, has a hard time with chaning bais white privallage laws that are build into social institutions like the courty system, higher education, and public service employers. Gays and blacks are fighting for the same civil right and the same doctrine of humanity that ask to include them in a conservative country that promotes democracy and equality. The biggest battle is getting equal treament, in a country that is not claiming that affirmative action polices are discriminatory. Whites hetrosexual males still dominate atleast 80 percent of the work force, and CEO’s of this country.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lasanga7/ Lasanga7

    Gay rights and civil rights are too different things…gays have rights like all humans but marriage of gays are against the Will of the Lord, the creator of the heaven and the earth and the Father of Jesus..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CocoaCarolina/ CocoaCarolina

    Wow Black America has sooooooo many more problems than this! lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SincerelyFoxxi/ SincerelyFoxxi

    No one seems to know that there IS a seperation of church & state. Read the constitution people ! This country was founded on it ! The government has no right to say whom you can & can not marry ! They (Gov’t) can say that legaly we wont acknowledge it as a marriage, but it just means that you give your partner hetro, homo, or bi power of attorney so you can call the shots in case of emergency thats what this is really about.
    Hell peoples parents say all day I wont acknowledge your marriage, doesnt mean you arent a couple or love each other any less. GET A EFIN CLUE PEOPLE !

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kb0586/ kb0586

    Lets all be honest here… If we could somehow chose our skin colour with the knowledge of the consequences, would there even be a black struggle? So why then does Tyra compare us to those fortunate enough to have the choice and knowledge of the consequences. Part of being an adult and making your own choices is owning the consequences…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WestsideCartelAtl85/ WestsideCartelAtl85

    Gay isn’t the new Black at all. I can’t change my skin color at all. But gay people can conceal their sexual orientation unless they are flaming or butch. Blacks during the civil rights movement was hosed, hung, and murdered for Civil rights. It’s a slap in the Black community face and our struggle to compare a sin to civil rights for Blacks. Being Black isn’t a sin. Being gay is a sin. Also I’m against gay marriage too.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SunDai_Sparxxx/ SunDai_Sparxxx

    As a member of GLBT community, I see similarites. However… as has already been stated…race and sexuality are 2 different things. And I feel as though the only thing holding back our rights is the religious community. I believe in God, but i also know im going to hell because i cant change who I love. EVERYONE doesnt believe the same… so my question is… why do we bring religion into our decisions as a country? So because you belive it to be morally wrong, I cant marry who I love?

    NOW…. There are many of the same principals in both movements. But blacks had to fight for their right to LIVE. We only are fighting a stigma of homosexual marriage. Which in the scheme of things is much more trivial. We arent fighting for our breath. So no… its not the new black struggle.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bg6963136/ bg6963136

    while there are some similarities between the struggles that these to groups are currently in there is one major difference. in being gay no one can just look at you and say “He/she is gay and i since i don’t like gay people i will treat him/her differently than i used to” in being black i wear that 24/7. when i walk down the street i’m a black man. when i meet someone i’m a black man. when some one sees me they see a black man and right then they decide what their opinion of me is based on how they feel about black people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BADESTB1TCH_18/ BADESTB1TCH_18

    OK WHATEVER IS GOING ON THE S**T IS WRONG NASTY AND I WILL PERSONALLY NEVER ACKNOWLEDGE THE MESS BUT I DNT JUDGE SO IF U GO TO HELL TOODLES HEAVEN????? NO COMMENT…. BUT ITS UR LIFE KILL YOSELF 4 ALL I GIVE A DAMN AND TYRA IS JUST A S**T STARTER OLD LONLEY DEPRESSED ASS!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VirtuousBeauty84/ VirtuousBeauty84

    As a christian,I know that there is reference in the bible that being gay is an abomination HOWEVER, there is also a passage that says Judge not for ye be judged. Additionally, government is bringing religion into politics and their decisions but when the government tries to regulate the church these same radicals want to have a hissy fit. You cant have it oth ways. As a government, there is nothing wrong with acknowledges freedom of choice however as a religious community we do not have to perform the ceremonies. People have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and as long as it does not cause harm to others physically or interfere with the operational methods of the government we cannot dictate how people are to become happy. If we allow this how far are we from making arranged marriages apart of everyday society. We need to allow change and stop taking steps back.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Annunaki40/ Annunaki40

    Coming from the perspective of an Man rowing up in the South, this is really stupid. I saw as a child growing up how black people (Negroes then) were treated. I saw the struggle (in Birmingham, Alabama. I will not forget when papa tried to Vote, a White man put a cigarette out on his back, in this he just kept on with perseverance.
    Now this homosexual community (they are not gays, that word means happy) are raising their head because it seems that no one is fighting a cause. The Civil Rights struggle can an never will be the same as the Homosexual movement. This Country which hypocritically prides itself on being a Christian Nation (that Bulls**t). The preamble of the Constitution states an anomaly that all men are created equal. All men are not created equal. If that was the case there would be no WARs, hatred, civil disobedience are whatsoever.
    Now its time for the Church. how many of these pedophiles with collars are going to continue to corrupt our children (on both sides of the aisle). I would believe without a doubt that the Illegal Immigration of the Southern Border is more in tune, but then White corporate America is to blame for that. Yes, I say it is the Church. When The negro race faught for their very survival many Ministers were on the line and I mean front line, but the hatred that is still festering within the Walls of this Country forbid a great many to step out on it>they were warned if you get involved we will vote you out of the pulpit. As I studied in the College I labeled those individuals as race haters. If we hated them so much as I wrote, why did you not just send us back, no cannot do that. So I say, they the Homosexual Community has a problem, and trying to make a stand now with such things like the homosexual Perez Hilton putting Miss California on the spot, no, sorry will not work. Never will be like the Black Civil Right Struggle of the early 1960′s, neither will the struggle to recognized of the Hispanic population. That is why I tell people there are no good people, just people that do good things. Is this movement going to succeed, I doubt it, will many be killed, most certainly. This will not happen until the hatred for people coming to this country from the Middle East dies down, then you will see a possible backlash at these Homosexuals, and it will possibly start in the states that has authorized homosexual marriages.
    My parents always said i talk to much with the truth, but the truth is the truth. Goo try Tyra, but this will not work.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rogimusprime/ rogimusprime

    I don’t have a problem with Gay folk, even though i don’t agree with it. I do take a bit of offense when they try to advance themselves upon the corpses of people in the civil rights movements. People are BORN black, they have no choice, no environmental factors can alter it, and you can’t hide it like your sexuality. So, I don’t want to hear you crying like someone lynched your family.

    Out Here in LA, gays actually BLAMED african americans and Latinos for not voting in bigger numbers to support Gay Marriage. So all of a sudden, you depend on Black people to Vote? Just because there was a black candidate on the ballot doesn’t automatically mean we are going to approve homosexuality. Black people are conservative when it comes to Sodomy and such…which is why so many brothers are on the down low.

    Stupid Tyra.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Cmoore_78/ Cmoore_78

    Is gay the new black? No, gay is not the new black. First, there is no “new” black. To say that is almost saying that the issues “blacks” face are resolved now. (Check out the movie American Violet, it is a great movie and sadly what in Melody, TX in 2000 happens all over this country). How many gays are targeted then locked up illegally and scared into taking a plea bargain? This still happens today for blacks and other minority.

    Next, I don’t think it is right for homosexuals to be beaten and verbally abused, this is not something that should happen to any one. The bible does not justify anyone beating someone because of their sexual orientation. I hate to hear that because God is love and we have to love people to life not brow beat them with the Word of God because we have the WRONG interpretation.

    We have gotten so out of control and so far from the Word of God, love of God and Fear of God that we have essentially become the United States of Hedonism. People who are so quick to say how wrong homosexuality (and it is) need to be as passionate about straights not commiting fornication (which is also WRONG). Keep in mind that God hates all sin and is no respecter of person.

    Homosexuals are not the “problem,” we all are….especially Christians. WE have not been good examples of what Christ taught and walked. I am not saying that we are to be “perfect” but we shout on Sundays and do whatever we feel like doing once we leave. We have become salt without flavor and we need to be the ones praying and not so quick to send people to hell. None of us have a hell or heaven to send anyone.

    Homosexuality is a spirit as is Fornication that all stem from the lust of the flesh. We need to guard our gates, eyes, ears, mouth, mind and REPENT. Look past the sin and see the person. There are so many empty, hurting, broken people around us and they are just reacting to their condition. They don’t know who they are in God and how much God loves them. That is what our jobs as “Christians” is supposed to be. Lead them to Christ and encourage them to develop their own relationship in God. It is God who delivers, set free and redeems.

    Change our conversation, say something different: You are not a freak, w***e, homosexual, fornicator, murderer, liar, lesbian, thief, adulterer, pimp, player, hustler, YOU ARE LOVED and WANTED…SOMEONE SHED BLOOD FOR YOU. There is nothing that Christ hasn’t all ready died for. Take to God and HE will convict, humble us, and DELIVER us. Deliverance isn’t an event but a WALK. God is ABLE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BIG_BLOCK_HEMI/ BIG_BLOCK_HEMI

    THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY JUST LIKE PEPOLE HAVE DISABILITIES AMERCIA GET OVER IT AND JUST ACCEPT THEN AS THEY ARE YOU AINT NOBODY TO JUDGE YOU HAVE SECRETS TOO

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lil_lilo04/ lil_lilo04

    you jus said theres so many black gays on the DL. exactly. black people and gay people, i feel, should really come together and support each other the most. you are born black. but you are also born gay. i dont give a f**k what people say about ur enviorment or anything like that. if your gay, you were always gay. it might take a little time to realize it, but you alwasy were. blacks and gays cant help the way they are cause were all born like that. and people die everyday for being black or gay. people used to think that blacks werent s**t. that we deserved nothing. the bad part of pigs. to just rape women just to do it it. to beat our men to death just cause they had a bad day. he had NOTHING back then, and weve progressed soooo much. and people think the exact same thing about gay people. that we dont deserve s**t. that we should all die. how can we not support each other when were pretty much going through the same thing! and just because of our skin, or who our heart tells us to love. thats horrible. yes, im black AND gay, so i get it double!!!! but we should all support and help eachother move foward, cause we cant do it alone. we need each other.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    Tyra done forgot where she came from…when the hell did gay rights become level with black struggle? Tyra’s not black, shes a str8 fag-hag…she disgusts me so much these days…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SUPRA/ SUPRA

    Stop associating your gay agenda to the civil rights struggle. Stop using our format that was made by us for us, Your Gay rights agenda is destroying the fabrics of integrity of The Civil Rights Movement. Get your on Movement! STOP ASSOCIATING BLACK WITH GAY!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Macthaknife615/ Macthaknife615

    How can you say stop associating blacks with gays and there are so many gay blacks? If there wasn’t, I wouldn’t be hit on by so many dudes. On one note, I don’t even see how this is an issue, alot of you so-called Christians say that its an abomination, but you probably break at least 2 of the ten commandments. This is a matter of just human rights in general when it shouldn’t be. Why are we worrying about whether gays should live the way we as heterosexuals do when we have problems such as unemployment, war, and corruption. Those against gay rights are saying the same things that white supremacists have been saying about blacks

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kyeanna121/ Kyeanna121

    Man look here if gays choose to u kno be with the same sex fine thats them but as a christian. Gay is not right and marriage is a blessing from God so what right does a gay person have to be married under God when they are goin against his word

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/exmple_of_perfection/ exmple_of_perfection

    gay rights are human rights…. and also to be considered civil rights…which can be defined as rights and freedoms that protect individuals from the government and state power and assure the ability to participate in the civic and political life of the state. Human and Civil should be given to every citizen of this country no matter what race, orientation, class, or color you are.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/aboveTheRim/ aboveTheRim

    WHO IS BEHIND THE WRITING FOR THIS SHOW. HERE WE GO, THE NEW BLACK, WHAT HAPPEN TO THE OLD BLACK? WHERE DO SOME OF YOU GET THAT FROM THAT SOME US WERE BORN GAY? WHAT KIND OF CREATOR DO YOU FOLLOW AND BOOKS ARE YOU READING.WE ARE BORN WHO WE ARE, BLACK, WHITE, ETC WE ARE NOT BORN GAY!! Tyra Banks GIVE ME A BREAK! I LOST RESPECT FOR HER LONG TIME AGO.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Macthaknife615/ Macthaknife615

    Marriage shoudln’t even be mentioned. We have so many divorces, and the concept of “love” is so messed up, that marriage is now irrelevant.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ahardfind/ ahardfind

    The fall of America is near.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Treyday9/ Treyday9

    Ok I dont believe Gay is the new Black but as a lesbian I believe. That all human being should be treated equal. No matter what and as for people bringing the bible into this. There is no one in this entire planet that follows GOD’s word to the tee so. That should not even be part of the topic with Gay and Lesbian issues. We should have the rights as Gay & lesbian people as any other human being.We are human to no matter with anyone say and on judgement day we as people have to answer to GOD not to the world!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Rhemawrd/ Rhemawrd

    This is just one of the 8 million ways I don’t watch anything that Tyra Banks is involved in. Gay the new Black? Somebody ought to be shot for that one. Gays are denied equal protection under the law? Well let’s see. Are gays prohibited from voting? No. Are gays blockbusted into lower income neighborhoods? No. Are gays prohibited from patronizing any particular public establishment because of signage reading “Straights Only”? No. Are gays prohibited from owning property? No. Are gays being transported from their home lands in chains, having their family units forcably seperated, being beaten and molested, given sub standard living conditions, striped of their culture and language, raped and murdered by some group who proposes themselves to be superior? No, no , no and no. So then how in the world can any logical person compare Black Civil rights to Gay rights?

    This retard of a lawyer on her show tries to make the comparison. But show me one gay who’s been tortured, dismembered, burned, and then hung from a bridge just for being gay (yeah, I’m talkin Emmit Till). Did anybody notice besides me that every time the straight side tried to talk, they were cut off mid comment? But when the gays spoke, they demanded to be heard? Gee Tyra, thanks for being an impartial hostess.

    Then we have Sam Harris and the other whining gay boy in the audience about thier individual empassioined experiences. Well somebody call Whiner’s Annonymous for the both of them and give each a towel. It still does not equal 468 yrs of oppression. Idiot lawyer then does the common thing gay supporters use. She takes an allegorical passage from the Bible to justify her ridiuclous possition. When are those who don’t know the Bible, going to learn to leave it out of their arguments? She even misquoted the passage.

    I saw an interview with Tyra once where she was talking about not understanding why the men she dates always end up cheating on her. News flash Tyra! No straight man wants to hang out with you and your gay friends. And every show you do, you are seen with a host of them. Get a clue.

    Sam’s most ridiculous comment was regarding the seperation of church and state. But what Sam failed to acknowledge, which is what the gay rights side always fails to do, is that the state wishes to impose upon the church regarding the gay rights issue when it comes to the institution of marriage. Yes! That’s right! States are suggesting that if legislation is passed to sanction gay marriage, that the church must recognize and honor said marriage. There is even legislation being tabled which suggest that the state would have the right to enforce sanctions against any church refusing to perform a marriage ceremony for a gay couple. Way to go Sam. Just like every gay/lesbain I’ve ever spoken to on this issue, you deal with half the issue.

    I also loved how “crying boy” insinuated that somebody hated him and wasn’t a Christian when nobody on the panel mentioned hating him or any other homosexual. Another common emotional ploy. Well I’ll say it here. I don’t hate any gay/lesbian person. However, I fully abide in God’s word when I say it is a sin. You don’t have to like it but it’s so. I refuse to stand for overt discrimination in any form. But I also refuse to redefine marriage just to make you all feel good about yourselves. And Sam’s statement about biracial marriage doesn’t work. That’s because biracial marriage does not redefine marriage under the law. The law has always defined marriage as one man and one woman. It never said one man and one woman who must be of the same race. So when you all get ready to deal with all the facts, in their entirety, let me know. Then we can talk about your “civil rights”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/whynot1064/ whynot1064

    you would think there are more important thing to talk about then to put topics like this in the media? some people need to study more about this. one is that the construction is based also on morality. two no one is born gay. three read the bible God does not approve of it in no ways at all. I think the big issue here is education the need of education is what leads to a enlightening mind to know what is good and wrong seek Christs words not mans theory’s so far the bible has been correct

    Proverbs 21
    2 All a man’s ways seem right to him,
    but the LORD weighs the heart.
    Proverbs 28
    26 He who trusts in himself is a fool,
    but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
    Proverbs 14
    12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
    but in the end it leads to death.
    Proverbs 3:7
    Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
    Romans 1
    18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

    21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

    24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

    26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

    28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Cmoore_78/ Cmoore_78

    What is meant by this comment, “blacks and gays can’t help the way they are cause were all born like that,” I cannot see the picture of the person who wrote this but I would like him/her to expound on this.

    How are blacks exactly? I cannot change the color of my skin. I know this is a big argument but homosexuality is a CHOICE…if not then who is making you sleep with a person of the same sex? You are CHOOSING to sleep with whom who sleep with, if not then someone is getting raped. That is a crime and charges should be filed.

    I will use myself as an example. I have never been married, I am not a virgin. What I did was fornication and wrong in the sight of God. I have DECIDED to STOP having sex and wait for marriage before I engage in any sexual activities. I made a CHOICE. I was convicted, repented and decided to STOP having sex.

    Now I understand that everyone don’t share the same beliefs. We are on a slippery slope of moral degradation. What is next, the children…will it be okay to have sex with them next? Now people feel like this is a stretch but what blacks have endured and what homosexuals are going through are not the same.

    God created marriage, regardless of what one’s beliefs are…this fact will not change. I will admit that men and woman are making a mockery of this and don’t undertand the sanctity of this sacred covenant. It is a promise that man and woman make before God. The purpose of it is so that man can produce after it’s own kind (humans), two men are not able to produce anything nor are two women.

    However, no segment has made a mockery of marriage than heterosexuals. Marriage is still a sacred covenant and a union that God honors. We need to turn our hearts back to God.

    God does not make homosexuals, liars, molesters, thieves, fornicators, murders, we are born into sin and thus we must be born again. We just need to pray and seek God with our whole hearts. If we pursued God the way many of us pursue fame, money and one another we’d be in a much be place.

    It is time to PRAY and REPENT. Seriously, this has got to stop. God is love and he corrects those who he love.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Cmoore_78/ Cmoore_78

    I am convinced that I need to add Tyra Banks to my prayer list, right next to Oprah. So influential but are not using their platform to progress God’s agenda. They have their own agendas and I am going to be in prayer for them.

    We need to stop thinking that because people are “making money” that it makes everything okay. Hell is real and God is coming back. We need to be winning souls to Christ and not trying to just be quiet and get along. Silence is often said to be agreement.

    To the person who wrote “the fall of America is near” no it is here all ready. Be per the Word, we have not seen anything yet. Things will get a lot worse.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/whynot1064/ whynot1064

    you would think there are more important thing to talk about then to put topics like this in the media? some people need to study more about this. one is that the construction is based also on morality. two no one is born gay. three read the bible God does not approve of it in no ways at all. I think the big issue here is education the need of education is what leads to a enlightening mind to know what is good and wrong seek Christs words not mans theory’s so far the bible has been correct

    Proverbs 21
    2 All a man’s ways seem right to him,
    but the LORD weighs the heart.
    Proverbs 28
    26 He who trusts in himself is a fool,
    but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
    Proverbs 14
    12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
    but in the end it leads to death.
    Proverbs 3:7
    Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
    Romans 1
    18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

    21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

    24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

    26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

    28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dafinestchica73/ dafinestchica73

    gay righta and civil rights are not the same…. gays want the right to marry one another and have any church the chose to marry them and recognize there marriage. but we cant ask our churchs to put down there beliefs for another so now state and church will not be separated. but civil rights was where innocent blacks were denied there basic libertys in which we was forced to sit on certain places on buses.. couldnt get cabs in certain areas couludnt live in particular areas i mean the list goes on and on… so our great leaders fought for our CIVIL RIGHTS… not our gay rights.. by all means no one should hate a person for chosing to sleep with the same sex and only GOD can judge them and there acts… for GOD doesnt classifies one sin as being greater than the other sin is sin and all sins smells in his nose…….. but the bible does have a major roll in gay rights i feel if they wanna marry ok let them but dont force any church to go against what they believe in to marry them….. when you do that you’re forcing the church to give up its biblical rights and spiritual obligation to GOD…now morals im not touching that since so many celebs have taking marriage to an all time low and adultery is at an all time high…. just my opinion on another pointless topic on BP and my reason as why i cant stand they trya banks show or anything she does….. why breed more hate….. not gay myself but have family memebers who are….just get a lil upset when i see black gay men dressed as woman…like dude you are a boy carry yourself as such dont care if you’re a gay boy you still a boy… stop with the weaves, fake nails, thongs, baby tee’s etc etc etc it was made for women be happy be gay but be a man with class not a ghetto f****t with hate and envy……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nappyrhino/ nappyrhino

    it’s frightening to think that some folks still don’t know that “civil rights” isn’t a code word for “black only rights”.

    and even more frightening to think some folks think any validation of marriage by THE STATE would require independent religious organisations to follow suit.

    and the thing about “they know i’m black, how would i know they’re gay?” is also a bit disconcerting.

    never thought i’d see folks who have experienced bible-based, state-sponsored discrimination be in favour of it. but, i guess they figure “if ‘the man’s’ boot is on someone ELSE’S neck, it ain’t on mine”.

    so…who y’all gonna throw under the bus next?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nappyrhino/ nappyrhino

    God didn’t create marriage, MAN did.

    if God did, why do you NEED to get a license from the GOVERNMENT to have it be considered valid?

    and how many of those who oppose gay marriage on “moral” grounds (like marion “b***h set me up” barry) actually HAVE the morals to make such a claim?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NubianFinest/ NubianFinest

    For all so called gay’s, what you do in your own home is your business!!! my problem is that my childern see your behavior, I see your behavior! none would exist if we where gay! we could not populate if we where gay!. You gay’s are trying to make it okay to be that way when it is wrong! It is a sin. Stop trying to push your behavior on other people!.
    This world is turning into a living hell!! and you gay’s are fueling more flames. You will be acountable, you will have to answer to what your doing in the open, when you should keep that behavior among yourselves, If I don’t want to be around behavior like that I should not have too!! I don’t like these young men walking around with their pants to their knees, and some have nasty underwears on! I just want this world to get better and not worst we all will be accountable! This world is getting unsafe everday, and as single mother it is hard to keep my childern on the right path, when so many is on the wrong path! When will we wake up and try to make this world a better place!!.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/testpageBP/ testpageBP

    Proof that both NEWSONE and TYRA are useless to life…lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jauharah/ Jauharah

    The Civil Rights struggle may have been credited with beginning with Blacks but the reality is it began with women. Women were prevented from owning property upon marriage nor could they vote. In contemporary times the Civil Rights stuggle deals with all people who are denied equal rights and access to anything afforded to everyone else. Obama is visibly Black but is bi-racial and so therefore his election to President doesn’t change the reality that all other people of color face daily – racism and discrimination. Until the day comes when all the old racists and their progeny are gone the struggle will continue. Churches claim to denounce homosexuality yet they accept adultery and pre-marital sex so I place NO value on any opinion generated by the church.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KeizerSosay/ KeizerSosay

    How utter repugnant is her question. I know when I walking down the street, whether I open my mouth or not, I’m obviously black. Unless one is advertising their sexual preference, one isn’t able to tell what ones sexual status is. Being gay in any respect should never be compared with being black. Just because I’m feeling forward, I’m going to come out right here on BP. Yes BP’ers I’m black, as if you couldn’t tell by my skin.lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AfreeQueen/ AfreeQueen

    Judge #8 is the Poster Child for Homosexuals and why homosexuality is a sin. Carrie was so right that the problem is the guilt in his heart, when you are doing wrong that burden of guilt will weight your down. Judge #8 should align himself with the advocates of Amnesty for Illegal Entry into the United States. They cause and tactics are similar, we have been getting away with sins and criminal acts for generations, and based on that seniority we should now be rewarded by going to the head of the line and getting what we want. The two groups will never be respected in a civilized society until they ATONE for their sins and wrong doing. In America atonement is an important part of the justice, we are so proud of. You MUST first admit you have sinned or entered the US illegally, before you can be granted the privilege of justice.
    Judge #8; make it stellar clear why he is the Poster Child for what not to be as a human being. You cannot steal your rights and then deny others the same legitimate rights. Take the Log out of your eye, Judge #8!

    While expressing her true self, Miss Prejean was cool, calm, in control of her heart and emotions, While Judge # 8 was a raving, confused child who is still trying to get acceptance from the parents who let him down. Miss Prejean is EVERTHING, everything, everything…. Judge number 8 wishes to be and have.

    Go back into the closet and face yourself, judge number eight is certainly not GAY, his heart is too heave to be gay.
    When you came come out and say with pride, I AM HOMOSEXUAL, then I will support you, but until you can be true to yourselves, don’t expect anyone else to enable your weakness. Nothing gay about Homosexuality

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mandmore/ mandmore

    for all of the ignorant remarks about children seeing gay behavior and no reproduction, if gay…grow up…heterosexuals will never stop having sex because gay folks have rights…you know babies will continue to be born every minute…let folks live their own lives without your judgements…as for your kids…education is key…after all, you DON’T know who they’ll grow up to be!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mandmore/ mandmore

    i just keep reading more and more dumb posts….of course you can notice someone is gay by looking at them…i get checked on it unnecessarily everyday!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mandmore/ mandmore

    why do you even allow posts if they have to be timed perfectly?….this response is to the quote: “being gay should never be compared to being black”…this statement alone puts you in the same bracket as “the white man” 40-50 years ago!…being both this subjects starts a fire within me!..to the monitor/moderator, don’t worry i shall not ever return!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4merHorse06/ 4merHorse06

    I always thought Tyra Banks was a complete, utter idiot. NOW I know for sure. You can’t loook at a person & say they’re gay (sometimes), but you damn sure look at someone & see that they’re Black. No, Tyra, gay is NOT the new Black.
    And what is this thing with comparing gay to the civil rights movement? Again, you can’t look at someone & tell if they’re gay, unless they’re throwing it in your face. I don’t see anyone lynching gays, no “gay only” restrooms, gays forced to ride in the back of the bus, et al. No people, no comparison at all.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1000000degrees/ 1000000degrees

    What is the world comin to Sodom and Gomorrah? I am insulted by the comparison. Gays are sexual deviants who take active steps to pursue their lifestyles. You are born black without a choice! Its not okay to live that way. Its sick unnatural and disgusting and people should stop promoting it. Men or women no exceptions!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/burgstyle82/ burgstyle82

    Damn she is stupid. No, gay cannot and will never be “the new black”. I can’t pretend to be white when it suits me. I’m always black, even when the lights are out. LOL Gays can put on a “straight face” and go about their business like it’s nothing. Let’s not even get into the history…

    As for anyone that thinks being gay is a choice. Stop and ask yourself if you could choose to be attracted to the same gender. You cannot. When I see those Rhianna photos I get aroused. LOL I have no control over that, it isn’t a choice.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shammad1/ Shammad1

    Here is the new truth BLACK means Beholding Light And Constant Knowledge GAY means Going Against Yourself. This is the new truth coming straight from the blood of the lamb. Read my acronyms you cannot make them into a lie. God has granted you this gift of truth through me BELINDA which means Bringing Everlasting Light Into Negative Dark Areas. Embrace this new truth with all your hearts and know that it will not steer you wrong. MARRIAGE Mending A Relationship Reared In Acknowledging God’s Existence. By doing this,it will lead you back to the beginning when things were done righteous and respect for God was in full bloom. Lets get this back my people and start reflecting who we truly are ” A Righteous People” plain and simple.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Blue_AKA_LisaJsawoo/ Blue_AKA_LisaJsawoo

    I can’t for the life of me understand where she comes up with this narrow ass topics for her show. Instead of “Hey lets help the unemployed, stay on their feet.” It’s “Is gay the new black?” WTF why is this show still on the air?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BLACKSMITH843/ BLACKSMITH843

    R U SERIOUS? When you have Firehoses sprayed on you, get escorted by the National Guard to school due to you wanting a better education, have people hang you and call it justice, have your mother raped and your daddy whipped, get yourself seperated from your family as a child, get sold like cattle, get recognized as being the first to break COLOR barriers, and have a nation of Kings with REAL QUEENS, I’ll accept you. Until then F**K NO!!!! GAY IS NOT THE NEW BLACK DUMB ASS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BLACKSMITH843/ BLACKSMITH843

    NO WONDER JOHN SINGLETON DUMPED HER! LOL. WHAT ABOUT THE BIPOLAR SISSY. CHECK OUT THE FOOTAGE. LOL. LMAO!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/virgocandysticky7/ virgocandysticky7

    This is a sad day for hue man beings, when the word civil rights for an enslaved oppressed people, for over 500 years by force means that the word or the name for an entire people regardless of their orientation, means that they are GAY?????? Im for any hue man that needs civil rights from abuse but as far as someone’s sexual orientation, thats really to the left of everything that our ancestors worked unpaid for countless hours, years in heat, cold, causing death, disease, mental abuse that still thrives in our society today. Back then when the overseers would rape little boys,men,women and children to change their demenor so that the world would recognize them as a bunch of loose bewildered homosexuals and that they would except their fate, Was that then the overseers civil rights? These people had to go home to their wives and families and still find time to present their significant other with “real love” or some special part of themselves….. this is a great sadness. Tyra needs someone to find more relevancy in the topics she airs, maybe she should try to emulate Oprah, Its not what you do its how you do it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/virgocandysticky7/ virgocandysticky7

    This is news. My point, to my previous post: Read it here on blackplanet

    From Walter Fields at NorthStarNews.com:

    The parents and siblings of Michael Edward Yates, Jr., one of the soldiers killed by a comrade at a military counseling center in Baghdad held a press conference this morning to express their sorrow. While watching the event on CNN, and immediately empathizing with the Yates family over their loss, my eye caught the sight of a Confederate flag positioned prominently next to the American flag in the background. My sympathy for the family immediately turned to scorn. Seeing the bars and stars displayed in such a way was a cold reminder of how many whites in this country are still invested in the Civil War and issues that should have long ago been resolved.

    What war was their son fighting and for who?

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