jlh | Political musings on race (Reply)

I was thinking about this year in review, and I continue to be confused about the total lack of any kind of discussion about race among those of my flist. Do you just not care that there have been riots in Paris and Sydney this year, and would rather talk about gay marriage not passing in Texas than admit that all of these perfect countries I'm supposed to want to move to have their own problems, problems that I'd have to worry about given I'm not white? We say that straight people should care about gay rights, but are you saying that white people don't care about racism? I have such a political flist that the silence on this issue is deafening, and to be honest, I don't feel that I have the right to comment about what happens in other countries, not to mention that I don't think the only people ever talking about race should be me, Eb, and Dionne. So is it that you don't care about race, or that you've taken a solemn oath to never criticize any country other than the US?

Oh, and two things about all those posts about gay marriage in Texas:

I'm not sure why anyone was surprised it didn't pass. I mean, come on.
Call me parochial, but I thought the passage of the gay rights bill in Maine, after a seven year fight, was a more illustrative story, and one that here in the states got equal billing with the story in Texas. It means that yes, there is a light at the end of this tunnel; yes, people's minds are being changed; yes, it's worth it to stay in there fighting. Oh, wait, I forgot: we never talk about positive change on LJ, do we? We'd much rather get righteously indignant than celebrate a victory.

Speaking of which, is anyone else excited about what's going on in Bolivia?