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New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie , is being criticized by Black leaders for comparing the Civil Rights movement to gay marriage in a  recent statement where he said he would veto a gay marriage bill and called for a referendum.

Christie said, “I think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South.”

The Huffington Post reports:

Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D), who supports gay marriage, criticized the comment. “I shudder to think what would have happened if the civil rights gains, heroically established by courageous lawmakers in the 1960s, were instead conveniently left up to popular votes in our 50 states,” he said, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.

Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex) said the governor needed a “history lesson.”

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  • Anonymous

    I just can’t take a fat guy seriously. I don’t know, its like some kind of innate sense that someone who lets themself get to the size of a small whale has a mental defect.

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyACE562 GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

    Gays were not slaves for 400 years. Stop it. {{-_-}}

  • Anonymous

    Black civil rights and gay rights are not the same, but as Hitler’s right hand man once said, if you repeat a lie often enough, it will become truth

  • http://profiles.google.com/esperandopara Nicholas Reed

    Neither were women or Jews. This is an irrelevant point. All irrational discrimination is evil and demeaning both to the oppressed and the oppressor. Civil rights is not a zero sum game.

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyACE562 GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

    Okay then, smart guy. How is letting gays marry going to get more Black people jobs and help us start businesses?

    Unless those gays are becoming bankers to give us business loans, we don’t have anything to do with them and they have nothing to do with us either. They can fight their own battles without our help. Ending THEIR discrimination only leaves OURS unchecked.

    Besides, homosexuality is thinly-disguised white supremacist population control tactics anyway.

    I don’t care about Jews; I care about BLACKS. Only women I care about are Black women. Good day. {{-_-}}

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8aj5k4MrEE&feature=related Norma Nixon

    Isn’t He Sickening Tho’? He Appear To Be Unhealthy – Mentally And Physically…

  • http://profiles.google.com/esperandopara Nicholas Reed

    At least you’re not disingenuously pretending that you believe in equal rights for all. Discrimination only matters when it happens to you or people who look like you. Just remember that MLK would be appalled to hear you spout this mentality. It’s a reflection of the divide-and-conquer strategy that the privileged (on the basis of their race, sex, socioeconomic class, religion, and sexuality) use to maintain their power. Here’s what he had to say on this very topic “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Remember too that MLK was assassinated while supporting a labour union, not a narrow conception of black civil rights to the exclusion of all others. He understood that if the rights of working people could be trampled by the rich and powerful, it would only make it that much easier for them to do the same to black folks.

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

    Wo-men and khazars were slaves at one time in hisSTORY!!! DAMN! You caucasoids are so damn dumb and stupid! What about the Black wo-men, who were enslaved? What about the Black Muurs/Moors, who ruled england and eu(rope) for 1400 years? GET OUTTA HERE!

    CHECK:

    The Jews were enslaved by the Kemetians/Egyptians and were forced to serve them until Musa/Moses asked the old wise Black Pharaoh to let them go, so he did, and after they crossed a damp mash during low tide, they wandered the desert for over 40 years.

    THIS IS WHEN THE FAKE khazars WENT TO EU(ROPE) TO “BECOME” khazars/jews!!!!!

    John 2:20 reads, “The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”

  • http://profiles.google.com/esperandopara Nicholas Reed

    I meant in the US. We are talking about US law here are we not? And is it your position that any civil rights violation is perfectly acceptable so long as the people whose rights are violated were never slaves? Also, news flash, if we’re going to extend this slavery thing to the whole world and every time period, you must realize that gays were employed as slave labour in concentration camps during the holocaust. LGBT people also were represented in every enslaved group that you just listed, because we are part of the history of every culture and people throughout recorded history. Also, where do you get off assuming I’m white? Plenty of queer folks are not.

  • http://twitter.com/pblkbrothers Positive Brothers

    I usually try to stay positive, BUT – this dumbazz loud mouth needs to just STFU

  • http://twitter.com/pblkbrothers Positive Brothers

    400 years, I was just thinking the other day, if we had them for slaves as long, could THEY survive. If the Indians were to kick the cowboys azzes, how would the world be?

    They got a 400 years head start and yet when we are allowed into any industry they occupy, we excelled and they get threatened. Ok..i’m done

    400 MOFO years

  • Anonymous

    I just don’t get newsone and the grio.. since their inception, they have been trying to tie gay and civil rights together.. but now we’re supposed to be outraged that someone is trying to tie them together.. i guess because they are an obese republican.. this place is schizophrenic

  • Anonymous

    And none of the slaves were Gay? You act like there are no Gay Black people. The civil rights movement was not about slavery anyway, that battle had been fought 100 years earlier. For that matter, if you know anything about the history of the world Black people were not the only people who were slaves.

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

    Guess he LIKED the fruit rollups, knowwhatI’msaying?????

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TK6BLIZ5GECAAXLJCR2VNW7BNQ Mau-ee

    If freaking fognon can buck goats-why can’t everyone else? I just can’t take a white, racist, ugly, meth-head freak seriously either. Cmon on “freaky freddie”-if fognon can freak w/goats & sheep why can’t you?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TK6BLIZ5GECAAXLJCR2VNW7BNQ Mau-ee

    Hey fognon-so is your mama (schizophrenic) + a meth-head hoe-so you got your stuff honest. I guess she does not like animals like you-cause you would not be here. heh-heh-

  • SimplyComplex_87

    gays weren’t enslaved just because they were gay though…blacks were enslaved because they were black.

    and the Civil Rights Movement WAS indirectly about slavery…if blacks had never been slaves in America (thus whites’ belief of racial inequality trickling down through the decades, and being the basis for the implementation of Jim Crow laws), then there wouldn’t have been a need for a Civil Rights Movement.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jayevans20/ jayevans20

    It’s different because we (Blacks) can’t choose the color of our skin. In my opinion, Gays can choose their sexual preference. Do I dislike gays or homosexuals? No, for what kind of Christian would I be. Christians also have to realize that God loves every one and that include the LGBT community.

  • Anonymous

    The homosexual agenda has nothing to do with civil rights.

  • Anonymous

    God may like them as people, but he is on record as hating f****try.

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyACE562 GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

    I don’t believe Blacks can have rights in a system we do not own or control.

    I don’t remember MLK fighting for gay rights. I do however remember a bunch of people bringing up his name whenever they find it convenient.

    Maintain WHAT power? Blacks in general are not all rich or powerful so what could the things we say possibly do to hurt anyone else? We’re not trying to divide or conquer anyone. We’re simply taking care of our best interests.

    You can make whatever far-reaching connections to equate Blacks and gays but the truth of the matter is that there IS no comparison. They can do them and we’ll continue to do us. {{-_-}}

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyACE562 GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

    I don’t defend gay Blacks. I defend Blacks. Gay Blacks are just Blacks who have chosen white supremacy over their own people. We call them traitors.

    And I don’t care who else was slaves. {{-_-}}

  • Anonymous

    Unreligious,

    And, if I follow your logic, is it reasonable to deduce that some of the oppressors to include the masters and overseers who flagellated the hell out of us may have been gay as well? As some gays like to point out, “we are everywhere and coming to an experience near you”, so it is a perfectly reasonable to conclude that gays are part of the HUMAN EXPERIENCE and not just those experiences that will advance their agenda for mainstreaming and tolerance.

    Gay civil rights and black civil rights are not the same. When I walk into a job interview or a place of business, I am completely visible and vunerable to a running script of every despicable stereotype associated with blacks in this country. That is not always the case with gays, because as many also love to point out, “your fill in the blank” is gay and you don’t even know it!! So, ostensibly, it is impossible to know who is gay if the person does not proclaim this designation.

    And, finally I don’t know of any enslavement, civil wars, Jim Crow Laws, widespread lynching, KKK terrorism, and other legal or civil acts of hatred and oppression specifically targeted towards gays as a group for almost 400 years in this country that had global impact.

    Gays should define and manage their own civil rights movement and not use black civil rights as a bridge to acceptance since some of the same gays who will quote or reinterpret a MLK, Jr. quote, willl turn right around and discriminate against blacks in professional and social settings.

  • Anonymous

    The next time this man can’t breathe I hope it is fatal. Negroes as we were called back then could not vote and were seen as half a man. We had to fight to get where we are today and that’s not saying much.

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

    NO,it is not the same. NOT the same struggle PERIOD.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S4KEPYMR7CIDLUFDORKLFB6NWQ kelly

    NJ governor is against gay rights and i have heard him say on the news that he dosent belive its a civil right issue and that he feels comparing the two is ins**ting to the african american community… So newsone dont try to twist Governor Christie words because i will blow this liberal obama sucking blog up with angry comments.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S4KEPYMR7CIDLUFDORKLFB6NWQ kelly

    oh no u didnt.. GOV Christie is the realest politacian out there. So what hes alittle heavy.. I think it makes him normal, and at least he keeps it really, hes done alot of good for N.J…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S4KEPYMR7CIDLUFDORKLFB6NWQ kelly

    i agree

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Shariese-Hurd/100001852350588 Shariese Hurd

    Don’t get distracted by this nonsense. I might not agree with them marrying, but at the end of the day it doesn’t affect me or my life in anyway. Maybe it will be better if people are out and not downlow. We see how detramential that has been to our community.

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

    This fat sloppy caucasoid jiggaboo needs to go lose some weight with his fat punk ass!

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyACE562 GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

    We’re simply saying that they have no right to complain AND they have no right to drag us into their complaints either. The media LOVES gays. Cry to THEM. {{-_-}}

  • Anonymous

    If you know of no legal or civil acts of hatred and oppression specifically targeted towards Gay people then you are extremely ignorant. Try googling sodomy laws for starts. Check out Tennessee’s don’t say Gay bill. You might be interested (though I doubt it as you seem to feel blacks are the only oppressed people on the face of the earth) in reading Romer vs Evans. The list of laws targeted towards Gay people in this country is quite long. Check out how many state republican party platforms call for the re-criminalization of sodomy. Read Rick Santorum’s views on the subject. It does not take much looking to read another example of a Gay person being beaten or killed for who they are, There is a story in the news right now about a Gay (black) man in Georgia who was beaten for being gay. Attacked by his black “brothers” when he walked out of a store. While not everyone is aware that every Gay person is Gay you are totally discounting the psychological oppression closeted Gay people suffer. You feel all Gay people should hide in the closet to avoid oppression? Doesn’t work. For that matter how many black children are thrown out of their houses for being black. The percentage of homeless youth in this country is about 35% which is way above the 8% of americans that are gay.
    Please stop with the 400 years of slavery in this country nonsense. The first black slaves in the colonies came to Virginia in 1619 slavery was ended in 1865.

  • Anonymous

    If you really believe that Gay black people have chosen white supremacy over their own people, then you have no understanding of what it means to be gay or black for that matter.
    If you don’t care who else were slaves than why should you expect people to care that some black people were slaves?

  • Anonymous

    And, I stand by my original comments. There is no comparison between the oppression of black people in this country (and globally) and gay civil rights. Was there a gay Atlantic slave trade with a trail of sharks following ships with loads of gay people stacked together in unsanitary conditions like cattle? Ever visited the slave ship Henrietta Marie? If so, did you have a sickening, visceral response to the “baby manacles” used to secure the tiniest of the lot?

    The United States did not pass abhorrent black codes or slave codes to systematically oppress and control gay people. The KKK in the south ( occurring much later than 1865 ) terrorized blacks and Billie Holiday sung about “strange fruit” and she was not referring to gays. Many laws and policies were passed that specifically targeted and discriminated against blacks in the areas of employment, housing (redlining), the right to public accommodations (ever heard of “separate but equal” – I drank water from the” black water fountain”, did you?) well after the emancipation of slaves almost 400 years ago and physical as well as psychological oppression of blacks continue to this day.

    I am well aware that black people are not the only “oppressed people on earth.” I have visited concentration camps all over Europe, worked with new immigrants to this country from Africa, Central America, South America, Europe and the Middle East, participated in anti-bullying youth and workplace prevention programs. I get along well with gays but I do not condone the gay lifestyle or gay marriage. That is my position and I stand by it.

    You wrongly assume because I do not agree with the linking of gay rights to black civil rights, that I somehow want to oppress gays and certainly do not and NEVER HAVE advocated violence of any kind against them. Just because I do not agree with the lifestyle and enumerated reasons for my objections does not make me “extremely ignorant” and clueless to their pain and suffering. That being said, I will not be muzzled or censored and have the right to voice my opinions. And, I will not advocate that you be muzzled, censored, SUSPENDED or FIRED for voicing yours.

    Take care.

  • Anonymous

    First of all you are the one who constantly makes the link (or non-link) statements about blacks and gays. To deny that their are some similarities (just as their are among all minorities struggling for civil rights) is to be blind towards reality. No one was making claims their oppression is worse than that of slaves.You on the other hand constantly claim black people suffered an oppression unequal to any other group in the world. One certainly could make a case that Jewish people, are an example of a people who have a much longer and greater history of oppression. Four-hundred years is a drop in the bucket to them..
    You claim you are not ignorant towards the pain and suffering of Gay people. Yet you advocate for the continuance of separate but equal in your disagreement of granting gay people equal marriage rights. You say you are not clueless but you call it a Gay lifestyle, as if it is something like being into tennis or belonging to a sewing circle. You try and portray yourself as a kind person who works to help all kinds of disadvantaged people. Still you feel you have a right to say you don’t condone Gay peoples “lifestyle” while claiming that because you are not calling for violence against them you are somehow not condemning them. To say you don’t want to oppress them while saying they do not deserve equal justice under the law is taking a strange view of what constitutes oppression.
    No one was trying to muzzle or censor you. However allowing you to express your views does not mean that others can not disagree or condemn your views.

  • Anonymous

    And, that is why I am so grateful that I live in a country like America where I can express my views and you are able to express yours. I will never share your view on these issues and you will never share mine. I exercise my right to live my life according to my convictions as you have chosen to live yours.

    Best Wishes!

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