LBGTQ PRARADE
Gezz! This must be one of the hottest days of the summer thus far and a beautiful day for a parade. I arrive at 10:00 am inquired from everyone where the speakers would be presenting, I was directed to the city water park. I sat down have way into my journey from Broad and High street to the water park. While sitting on a bench gathering my thoughts a young lady with a sheet of paper in her hands stop and asked me to sign a petition to outlaw gerrymandering in Ohio, after our last class this was a pleasant surprise. So, after signing the petition I continued my way to the water park where a lot of vendors were located. I have not heard any speakers nor have I witnessed a parade. So far this has an entertaining venue, too bad …show more content…
But from my point of view being a straight Black man who has never attended a Pride Parade, I thought it to be a unique learning experience. I had cleared my mind of any pre-judgmental that were placed there by the media and was ready to experience this event. All I identified with was some people whose sexual orientation was different from mine that deserved all the rights and privileges of any other U.S. citizen. The parade first had me wondering why a parade was necessary to show pride in your sexual orientation? Then I remember an old All in the Family episode where Archie had called a Black a boy and the Black man responded by saying don’t call me boy, I don’t like that. Archie’s respond was that he didn’t mean anything by it because he had been called boy but he never made a big deal of it, the Black man responded saying he (Archie) never had too! That made me put the parade in a more positive prospective and made me remorisk about the civil rights movement in which I was a participant. Civil rights are obvious because of skin color; racist can see that one is black and a man. LBGTQ rights are not as obvious because with LBGTQ people it is often not possible to recognize a LBGTQ individual. With civil rights, Black people were denied the vote, access to loans, housing and jobs and to my knowledge these practices are not as prevalent in the LBGTQ cause. But
Gezz! This must be one of the hottest days of the summer thus far and a beautiful day for a parade. I arrive at 10:00 am inquired from everyone where the speakers would be presenting, I was directed to the city water park. I sat down have way into my journey from Broad and High street to the water park. While sitting on a bench gathering my thoughts a young lady with a sheet of paper in her hands stop and asked me to sign a petition to outlaw gerrymandering in Ohio, after our last class this was a pleasant surprise. So, after signing the petition I continued my way to the water park where a lot of vendors were located. I have not heard any speakers nor have I witnessed a parade. So far this has an entertaining venue, too bad …show more content…
But from my point of view being a straight Black man who has never attended a Pride Parade, I thought it to be a unique learning experience. I had cleared my mind of any pre-judgmental that were placed there by the media and was ready to experience this event. All I identified with was some people whose sexual orientation was different from mine that deserved all the rights and privileges of any other U.S. citizen. The parade first had me wondering why a parade was necessary to show pride in your sexual orientation? Then I remember an old All in the Family episode where Archie had called a Black a boy and the Black man responded by saying don’t call me boy, I don’t like that. Archie’s respond was that he didn’t mean anything by it because he had been called boy but he never made a big deal of it, the Black man responded saying he (Archie) never had too! That made me put the parade in a more positive prospective and made me remorisk about the civil rights movement in which I was a participant. Civil rights are obvious because of skin color; racist can see that one is black and a man. LBGTQ rights are not as obvious because with LBGTQ people it is often not possible to recognize a LBGTQ individual. With civil rights, Black people were denied the vote, access to loans, housing and jobs and to my knowledge these practices are not as prevalent in the LBGTQ cause. But