Ernest Hooper, St. Petersburg Times
- Imagine a black man standing on a yacht and pulling up the rope ladder after climbing aboard, even though more people are down in the water.
That’s the vision I get whenever I hear black people, especially black ministers, promoting Amendment 2, the state’s proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage.
I just don’t understand how blacks can demand equality while denying it to gays.
Middle- and upper-class blacks always hear a message about how we have a responsibility to reach back to the inner cities and lend a hand even though we’ve escaped to the suburbs or moved up to a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Shouldn’t the same principle apply to gays? Shouldn’t we help other folks achieve equality now that we’ve made strides?
