Tennessee Republicans vote to allow clerks to refuse marriage licenses to LGBTQ+ couples and interracial couples

[Rekkapryde]

Black people have to stop acting like it is their job and only theirs to fight for the rights of other people. Black people struggles have helped White women, gays, immigrants, religious outcasts on and on and on. It is time for other people to fight their own fights.

It don't work like that. I'd love for it to, but it don't. No one saying we need to be on the front lines, but they know EXACTLY what they are doing.

 

[skylove4]

The party of small government and freedoms are at it again,strangely not doing small government shyt and taking freedoms. Can’t do nothing but

at anybody voting for the racist b*stards, especially black folks.

 

[get these nets]

Yeah you caught that too

Yeah, I don't think you have to con people when you report a story.

 

[8WON6]

The ultimate goal for the other side of that argument is to make Black people fight everybody else's fight, by trying to tie interracial marriage with gay marriage. Most Black people don't have a dog in either fight.

facts. we vote democrat more than any other group but we're told we need to do more somehow. Meanwhile, people like D-Wade and Gabby Union wagging their fingers at Black people at the NAACP awards telling us to "fight for ALL black people" and how we need to fight for LGBT, but when laws are being drawn up they at fashion shows with their "daughter" instead of being in Tennessee wagging their finger at people down there.

 

[hashmander]

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Martin Niemöller is best known for writing First They Came, but he is a complicated figure. Initially an antisemitic Nazi supporter, his views changed when he was imprisoned in a concentration camp for speaking out against Nazi control of churches.

 

[85 East]

Tennessee GOP-Led House Passes Bill Letting County Clerks Refuse Marriage Licenses to LGBTQ Couples

The bill is a direct challenge to federal marriage equality protections.

truthout.org

Basically bill is designed to where it seems to be targeting LGBTQ+, but gives freedom to deny anyone. What you think Billy Bob gonna do when a black and white couple walks in?



I keep telling y'all these anti-LGBTQ pushes are republicans phase 1 and we're literally next. Anti-LGBTQ shyt on Monday will be anti-black shyt on Wednesday. Y'all need to get over what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms, shyt isnt a game

Thank you for understanding the issue. People cock watch so much, they don't realize that the Rethuglicans are pulling Kansas City shuffles out here.

Tearing down one group of minorities rights will start a cascade. It's wild. This election cycle is going to be vicious, and will upend the shyt out of the US and Canada.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Sadly too many black folks think white people will pick and choice which groups to discriminate against. Never been the case. if they are discrimatory against one group they are against all of them.
actually if anything i suspect they are going as hard as they are against gays because they know there will be less resistance from us, but they understand the language in those bills will be the same or vague enough to allow them to use it against us a well.
harder to pass an anti black people law then it is to pass an anti gay law and include some stuff you can use against black people in the wording.

Black Males are always #1 on the list when it comes to White supremacy.


These idiots are too dumb to see it.

 

[Luke Cage]

Black Males are always #1 on the list when it comes to White supremacy.


These idiots are too dumb to see it.

yep, letting them get away with anything, just emboldens them and enables them to reach for more.
give a racist cac an inch, they will take a mile. allowing them to have to power and authority to discriminate will affect us one way or another down the line.

 

[Gloxina]

Partially agree, let me rephrase

They trojan horsing by pushing Anti-LGBTQ+ shyt that even black people sometimes agree with, while planning to use the same methods to come back to their #1 targets - us

^^^

 

[Samori Toure]

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Martin Niemöller is best known for writing First They Came, but he is a complicated figure. Initially an antisemitic Nazi supporter, his views changed when he was imprisoned in a concentration camp for speaking out against Nazi control of churches.

They already came for Black people. Nobody spoke out.

 

[Voice of Reason]

yep, letting them get away with anything, just emboldens them and enables them to reach for more.
give a racist cac an inch, they will take a mile. allowing them to have to power and authority to discriminate will affect us one way or another down the line.

The ultimate aim of Conservative racist White males is to discriminate and subjugate Black men all this other stuff is distractions from that goal.


They want it to be harder for Black men to advance economically

Gain power politically

And just gain social standing in general.


Black women an children have adverse outcomes as a result of that discrimination.

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

Greatest trick Republicans ever performed was fooling people into thinking they support less government.

Some people in here supporting this with a straight face

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

OP,

It's a reach to attach interracial marriages to this.

Yeah you caught that too

It’s wild (although not surprising) to see Coli brehs running with it too.

It’s the article making that leap…which is why we should always question the source sharing “news”

 

[Chrishaune]

Greatest trick Republicans ever performed was fooling people into thinking they support less government.

Some people in here supporting this with a straight face

All man-made government is corrupt.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Sadly this is the crux. Whether we like it or not, you cannot support discrimination of any kind because the ultimate goal is to bring back Jim Crow.

You get it