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Article #20567Re: Blatant gay discrimination
From: Danny Low
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 00:00
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David A. Kaye (dk@crl.com) wrote:
: Yeah, sure. Blacks tried befriending everybody in sight, but the only way
: they were able to begin breaking down the racial barriers in employment
: was when they rioted in Watts (a Los Angeles district) in 1965. Then
: suddenly people began to see that they were serious.
All the rioting did was to frighten the whites who got the police
more and better riot gear to fight the rioters. Watts is STILL
poor and black 30 years later. The riots were effective but improving
the lot of blacks was NOT they effected.
One gay riot on Christopher Street may have been effective in
galvanizing gays to political action but more than one simply
gets straights to buy more and better riot gear for the police
and mute protests when the police use the gear to "straighten"
out the gays.
Danny Low
"Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
HP NSD dlow@ppg01.sc.hp.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,2ba1f5c72723a16a X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 10e496,f942d97e57477a07 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e496,public X-Google-Thread: 10bb69,f942d97e57477a07 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb69,public From: dlow@ppg01.sc.hp.com (Danny Low) Subject: Re: Blatant gay discrimination Date: 1995/06/02 Message-ID: <3qnchn$gfb@hpscit.sc.hp.com> X-Deja-AN: 103678978 references: <1995May26.052931.2333@lafn.org> <3qg7i9$ijv@natasha.rmii.com> <EIJKHOUT.95May31031620@jacobi.math.ucla.edu> <3qjb51$j5@crl12.crl.com> <3qknai$jbs@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <3qm7b6$2ge@crl2.crl.com> organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION newsgroups: ca.general,alt.politics.homosexuality,alt.discrimination