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This was a speech given August 15 1970 by Huey Newton co-founder of the Black Panther Party..here he addresses the issue of Gay Rights… Its serious food for thought coming in the aftermath of President Obamaendorsing Same-sex Message…

During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among homosexuals seeking their liberation. There has been some
uncertainty about how to relate to these movements.

Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about
homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals
and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed
groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion.
I say ” whatever your insecurities are” because as we very well know,
sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the
mouth, and want a woman to be quiet. We want to hit a homosexual in
the mouth because we are afraid that we might be homosexual; and we
want to hit the women or shut her up because we are afraid that she
might castrate us, or take the nuts that we might not have to start
with.

We must gain security in ourselves and therefore have respect and
feelings for all oppressed people. We must not use the racist attitude
that the White racists use against our people because they are Black
and poor. Many times the poorest White person is the most racist
because he is afraid that he might lose something, or discover
something that he does not have. So you’re some kind of a threat to
him. This kind of psychology is in operation when we view oppressed
people and we are angry with them because of their particular kind of
behavior, or their particular kind of deviation from the established
norm.

Remember, we have not established a revolutionary value system; we are
only in the process of establishing it. I do not remember our ever
constituting any value that said that a revolutionary must say
offensive things towards homosexuals, or that a revolutionary should
make sure that women do not speak out about their own particular kind
of oppression. As a matter of fact, it is just the opposite: we say
that we recognize the women’s right to be free. We have not said much
about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual
movement because it is a real thing. And I know through reading, and
through my life experience and observations that homosexuals are not
given freedom and liberty by anyone in the society. They might be the
most oppresed people in the society.

And what made them homosexual? Perhaps it’s a phenomenon that I don’t
understand entirely. Some people say that it is the decadence of
capitalism. I don’t know if that is the case; I rather doubt it. But
whatever the case is, we know that homosexuality is a fact that
exists, and we must understand it in its purest form: that is, a
person should have the freedom to use his body in whatever way he
wants.

That is not endorsing things in homosexuality that we wouldn’t view as
revolutionary. But there is nothing to say that a homosexual cannot
also be a revolutionary. And maybe I’m now injecting some of my
prejudice by saying that “even a homosexual can be a revolutionary.”
Quite the contrary, maybe a homosexual could be the most
revolutionary.

When we have revolutionary conferences, rallies, and demonstrations,
there should be full participation of the gay liberation movement and
the women’s liberation movement. Some groups might be more
revolutionary than others. We should not use the actions of a few to
say that they are all reactionary or counterrevolutionary, because
they are not.

We should deal with the factions just as we deal with any other group
or party that claims to be revolutionary. We should try to judge,
somehow, whether they are operating in a sincere revolutionary fashion
and from a really oppressed situation. (And we will grant that if they
are women they are probably oppressed.) If they do things that are
unrevolutionary or counterrevolutionary, then criticize that action.
If we feel that the group in spirit means to be revolutionary in
practice, but they make mistakes in interpretation of the
revolutionary philosophy, or they do not understand the dialectics of
the social forces in operation, we should criticize that and not
criticize them because they are women trying to be free. And the same
is true for homosexuals. We should never say a whole movement is
dishonest when in fact they are trying to be honest. They are just
making honest mistakes. Friends are allowed to make mistakes. The
enemy is not allowed to make mistakes because his whole existence is a
mistake, and we suffer from it. But the women’s liberation front and
gay liberation front are our friends, they are our potential allies,
and we need as many allies as possible.

We should be willing to discuss the insecurities that many people have
about homosexuality. When I say “insecurities,” I mean the fear that
they are some kind of threat to our manhood. I can understand this
fear. Because of the long conditioning process which builds insecurity
in the American male, homosexuality might produce certain hang-ups in
us. I have hang-ups myself about male homosexuality. But on the other
hand, I have no hang-up about female homosexuality. And that is a
phenomenon in itself. I think it is probably because male
homosexuality is a threat to me and female homosexuality is not.

We should be careful about using those terms that might turn our
friends off. The terms “faggot” and “punk” should be deleted from our
vocabulary, and especially we should not attach names normally
designed for homosexuals to men who are enemies of the people, such as
Nixon or Mitchell. Homosexuals are not enemies of the people.

We should try to form a working coalition with the gay liberation and
women’s liberation groups. We must always handle social forces in the
most appropriate manner.

(Source: hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com)

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Blackness. My gift. My beauty. My strength. My heritage. My curse. My burden. My struggle.

My whole life I was told I was an black prince. And that I would someday be a black king.

I never knew it would be tempered with evil glares from those who don’t approve of me.

I never knew it would make me a target by racist cops looking to fill a quota.

No not a ticket quota. A quota of lock up as many of those black primates as you can.

A quota of kill as many of them as you can. No one will care. Their families may cry.

Al Sharpton may lead a protest or two. But in six months, no one will care and we’ll kill more.

In case you didn’t know, I am EVERY black man.

I’m Garret A. Morgan who invented the traffic light that saves your life.

I’m Benjamin Banneker who created the clock you set your watch to.

I’m David Boker and I created the inner tube you use in your tires of your big luxurious car.

I’m Charles Bryant and I created the seat belt that ALSO saves your life.

I’m Clarence Larry and I created the camera you use to capture your life’s greatest moments.

I’m Richard Spikes and I created the gear shift of your car.

I’m John Standard and I created your refridgerator and the oil stove.

I’m Barack Hussain Obama and I’m THE MUTHAFUCKIN’ PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BITCH!

And you wanna kill me?

When all I want is the freedom and rights I’m promised under the United States constitition that set me free from slavery on June 19, 1865. 

Yeah I mentioned slavery.

Don’t you tell me black people need to get over slavery in 2012.

Not when in 2012 my being black, tall, and a man can get me shot by a racist vigilante who sees me as a threat. When all I wanted to do was go home to family, eat my skittles, and drink my Iced Tea. My name is Trayvon Martin.

Don’t tell me I shouldn’t take being black so seriously when pulling out my wallet can get me killed by police and no one goes to jail. I am Amadu Diallo.

Don’t tell me I should see myself as colorless when the police can kill me on my wedding day and my son is left fatherless while the police laugh in my widow’s face while taunting her saying “Did you really think we’d go to jail or lose our jobs to protect and serve because we killed your black husband? Fuck you and him!” I am Sean Bell.

Don’t tell me racism is a thing of the past when the same education I pay for at Brown University allows police to beat me senseless, break my car windows, and have me fighting fake charges my last year instead of studying. I am the multi-talented actor Nic Few.

Don’t tell me I’m a murderer for being the shit out of a white kid who says I can’t sit where I want on my school’s playground and brandishes a gun at me. I am Mychael Bell.

Don’t tell me we’ve overcome when the police follow me into my house and shoot me in my grandmother’s bathroom in front of my six year old brother. I am Rahmarley Graham.

You call that justice? I call it foul bullshit. And as a college educated black man who publishes his own books and is a part of a community of other college educated black men and women who are parents, teachers, actors, singers, dancers, writers, lawyers, doctors, college professors, I stand up and proudly, look you straight in your eye, and say my blackness will not stop me. We are strong, beautiful, intelligent, creative, and proudly BLACK. Always will be. You won’t kill us all. And before it’s all said and done, the revolution WILL be televised, we will rise and have justice, equality, and shine brighter than ever. My blackness is not my burden. It’s my blessing. And my crown is my blackness. Mr. Armani out!

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