And, look at how many closeted gay men in policy positions support the oligarchy on ideological grounds from within the Republican Party hierarchy.Īlthough same-sex marriage rights and anti-discrimination laws appears to be a progressive issue, given how vehemently the Christian Right is opposed, it is not really a neat left-right, progressive-conservative issue. The fact that the gay community can lead the way, in some cases, in displacing Black, brown, elderly and the poor in urban areas goes almost unmentioned. It allows the billionaires to appear to be progressive, when they are not. It says and does nothing about raising taxes on the top one-tenth of one percent restoring Glass-Steagall breaking up the Wall Street banks putting the bankers who robbed the American people in jail preserving clean air and water protections, etc. I would extend that to "LGBT capitalism." The fact that conservative and libertarian billionaires support same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws against the LGBTQ is all about their profits and their workforce. The concept of "racial capitalism" is interesting. That is completely unacceptable, but the community does not turn out to challenge and change that. We have a 66 percent high school graduation rate overall, with 44 percent for Black children. Sadly, no one-white or Black-shows up for school board meetings and workshops where policies are made that negatively effect the education and life chances of their sons and daughters. We had a large turnout from the progressive and Black community, including ministers, to voice support for our lone Black commissioner who spearheaded the effort to remove the flag. I am happy to report that in Escambia County, Florida, that the board of commissioners voted 5-0 to permanently remove the Confederate flag from all county buildings.īut, removing that flag, the symbol of white supremacy and slavery, does nothing to eliminate institutional racism and the disparate racial impacts of "color-blind" laws that always seem to disadvantage the Black community.
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