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Or - Straight, Christian and Male
Remember the song “Young, Gifted and
Black”. Well I’m old, white, male, straight, Christian, middle-class... and
feel like a leper sometimes. I’m getting fed up…
I love that old song “Young, Gifted and Black”. The
idea that previously oppressed and undervalued groups should have a great
future now is most refreshing. “It’s where it’s at” indeed. I’m also all for
those “Gay Pride” marches and suchlike. Great stuff. Society is becoming
enlightened at last.
But wait! What if you happen to be somewhere else
other than “where it’s at”? Or indeed some one
other than a female black… person? I’m a white male who is straight, middle
class, Christian, British, from Yorkshire and old.
The more I see black gays etc. on telly the more I
feel like a leper. Thank God I’m not German too. Or an extremist. And despite
the title I am not untalented.
To be fair I have to acknowledge that we white
straight men etc. have brought a lot of this on ourselves. We are the ones who
produced Hitler and introduced slavery (well most of it), and treated women as
second class citizens. It was us who criminalised being gay. We started most
wars and committed mass genocide. We have been evil for sure.
Yet then again, it wasn’t us. It was our ancestors. Modern misogyny and gay-bashing is mainly
done by black extremists rather than whites. But we white males still take all
the flak for what went on in historical times.
I can just picture our ancestors turning round to us
and saying, “Well if you hadn’t gone soft on the ****s!”
Modern white men may be more “Metro” or whatever,
these days, but this is seldom acknowledged. We are shown little or no respect.
Still, you reap what you sow, and right now the others are doing the sowing.
Is it our
turn now? Maybe it’s time for “Straight Pride”, “Male Emancipation”, “White
Pride” and so on. An acquaintance of mine suggested "Mother's Pride",
a UK brand of bread, but that can be white or brown, so best not go
there. Nuff Said.
PS of course I have taken an extreme stance here.
The truth is that we all need to treat every person we meet as an equal: as a
member of the human race.
Paul
Butters
PS - Yeh I've given up on the "happy" stuff for now.
PS - Yeh I've given up on the "happy" stuff for now.
