Category: Inclusion

Any reaching out to communities of color will, undoubtedly, dredge up the history of how this country’s same-sex marriage debate created much consternation and polarization between LGBTQ communities of color and white LGBTQ communities.

I want the Democratic presidential hopefuls to be as invested in LGBTQ lives lost to police brutality as they are about “Black Lives Matter.”

Statistics estimate that 25-33 percent of the LGBTQ population will experience some form of partner abuse or domestic violence in their lifetime.

On the surface Francis displays a pastoral countenance to his papacy that seemingly extends to all. But rather we clearly see the geopolitics of a soft church bureaucrat evangelizing to today’s shrinking American Catholic Church - an institution that is less churched, less married, less white, and less conservative.

Cambridge is no doubt a progressive city. However, when you scratch below Cambridge’s surface the city maintains its race and class boundaries not by designated “colored” water fountains, toilets or restaurants, but rather by its zip codes...

LGBTQ evacuees and their families, many of whom are now internally displaced, faced all kinds of discrimination at the hands of many of the faith-based relief agencies—due to their sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status.

The reality of unarmed African American women being beaten, profiled, sexually violated and murdered by law enforcement officials with alarming regularity is too often ignored - especially with the focus of police brutality on African African males.

Atticus is a eugenicist who reads racist tracts like “The Black Plague;” attends Maycomb County White Citizens’ Council in order to organize and resist federal government edicts to desegregate; views the NAACP as opportunists and troublemakers, joined America’s most horrific domestic terrorists group, the Klu Klux Klan, in his youth, and I surmise would resist the removal of the Confederate battle flag from Alabama’s State House.

democracy can only begin to work when those relegated to the fringes of society can begin to sample what those in society take for granted as their inalienable right. The right to marry regardless of a couple’s sexual orientation or gender identity is now one of them.

While many whites have confessed their aversion to such a dialogue, stating that while a cultural defense of "white guilt" plays a role in their reticence, so too does their cultural fear of "black rage" for inadvertently saying the wrong thing.