IS SSM LIKE INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE?

It's time for a new question for the week, I think. First I'll post a bunch of links about the SSM/interracial marriage, or Loving/Goodridge, comparison. Then I'll give my own take briefly. Then you all will pitch in!

Blacks Object to Gay Marriage Comparison: "...But the Rev. Talbert Swan II said the two struggles are not similar because blacks were lynched, denied property rights and declared inhuman.

"'Homosexuality is a chosen lifestyle,' he said. 'I could not choose the color of my skin. ... For me to ride down the street and get profiled just because of my skin color is something a homosexual will never go through.'

"A poll released by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press on Nov. 18, the day of the ruling, indicated 60 percent of blacks opposed gay marriage."

Interesting Monstah (lesbian blogger returning to the AME church): "...To my knowledge, pigs don't stop a Black man and ask if he's gay prior to beating him up. Gay Black men are profiled in the same way as straights. So this equivocation between 'gays' and 'blacks' must end.

"And to be perfectly clear, these smug, self-appointed sanctimonious 'black leaders' who spout this line are not the only ones doing it. I can't tell you how many white gays have demanded queer loyalty of non-whites by patronizing us with the same comparison, expecting us to throw in our lot with them, who can be equally as condescending. Get your acts together, kids, then come talk to me about oppression."

WEB DuBois and SSM: "...To dismiss the black gay experience as unimportant to a discussion on gay civil rights is akin to dismissing the Harvard-trained DuBois as unrepresentative of blacks and thus unqualified to speak about black civil rights. ...

"DuBois listed five demands: the right to vote; the elimination of separate accommodations (which he called 'un-American, undemocratic, and silly'); the freedom to associate; equity in law enforcement; and proper education. The outer two claims have no immediate parallel to the gay experience, but the inner three certainly do, as laws segregating and singling out gays persist."
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