Racist People Make Me Sick!

I'm currently blogging from the lobby of the Fine Arts Auditorium. The job of guarding the doors was given to me. Actually, I volunteered for it. This way, I can relax here in the lobby and study for my Health exam. Mr. Kirk's play doesn't go on until 2:00 anyways, so it all works out. But now I am about to discuss what happened this morning. I walked into the costume shop where other theatre people were located. It was a girl, a guy (who is gay) and another guy who I think is gay. Tony came in to brief me regarding the lights and how the day would go. As we casually talked, he brought up the fact the he didn't know Dennis Miller was a conservative. After he left, this girl decided to make racist jokes about our currently elected president. She showed me her phone which contained a long message, which I refused to read due to it's length, and because it started out "Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Opera Winfrey are on an airplane..." I dismissed the joke as pathetic, but then she didn't stop. After the first joke, she continued to share a picture on her phone of the White House with a KFC sign, watermelon patch, a monkey climbing the top, and the theme song from Sanford and Son playing aloud. At this point, I just thought it was stupid, although beginning to get offensive. She then played aloud the theme song from the Jeffersons and announced that it would become the new national anthem. I finally spoke aloud and said, "Well at least I can sleep at night knowing the fact I've accepted him as a president. You cannot even do something as small as accepting someone." And then the pushing straw was when she showed everyone a picture of Obama with "Anti-Christ" in large, bold letters. I angrily said, "You know, I hope Obama is the Anti-Christ, because that means God will come back and take away all the Christians, and leave us to lead a great world without poverty, prejudice and hatred." She took offense to this and said, "Hey! I'm a Christian!" That gave me an opportunity to rant about how the church is able to influence hate legislation, and then she gave the usual lazy answer, "Well our country is founded on religious principles." You can't argue with someone who firmly believes this. First of all, it's really not, and even if it was, the definition of religious principles to our founding fathers probably didn't involve who was and was not allowed to marry. After that I finally just left. I could have left early on into the hate mongering, but I wanted to wade it out and fight back. I had to run and tell Tony about what she said. He told me, "Republican's have no place in theatre." So by her response to my argument regarding same-sex marriage was actually a stab to the two homosexuals present. How can you live with yourself when you pretty much tell someone in person that they have lesser rights than you?

This morning on NPR, an African American gay woman discussed the apparent connections between the African American struggle through the Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and the gay American struggle happening today. She went on to bring up a black woman who tried to vote in the 50's and was beaten for it. The same segregationists who would not allow equal rights to African American's in the 50's used the same bible to justify inequality that's being used today. Change is hopefully coming...