When one of us dies I am less than I was. The world should stop when a Gay kid commits suicide. It won’t stop on its own; it needs to be stopped by us, the survivors. It is unacceptable for one our youth to be in such pain that he or she takes their own life. Pain this unbearable should be felt by us, but it is not always.
The burden for Gay kids killing themselves rests with discrimination. The burden for the continuation of discrimination rest with us, the Gay community. We listen to the promises of politicians who want our vote. When those promises are broken, are we outraged? No, we call for patience and time to win our neighbors over. As we wait our kids dies. We are more outraged when a favorite club closes than when one of us takes his or her own life. We are more interested in fashion and furniture than protest and action.
So we blame everyone but ourselves. When people rise up within our community we criticize but don’t offer suggestions of our own. We put more energy into tearing down each other then ensuring the safety of our youth. Given the choice between civil disobedience to advance our civil rights and shopping at IKEA, we choose IKEA
We are arm chair quarterbacks who can’t see past ourselves to help each other. We find fault with the methods others use, offering no direction of our own. Instead of cheering on those in our community that bloody their hearts everyday to make things better for those who come after us,we apathetically scoff.
Currently we are all outraged over the suicides of five of our young. Their lives are causalities of a war we should all be fighting. A few weeks from now most of us won’t even remember their names as we go on with our lives and their bodies decay. It could be different. It just takes a willingness to feel. To feel how diminished we are at their loss, and turn that grief, their memory, into action. Action demanding urgency as our youth continues to die by the hand of our apathy and misplaced priorities.
Today,today I am diminished.......
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Dear Anonymous, You won't see your hurtful comment here. I don't publish hate, and I certainly don't publish it when it comes from a coward that hides behind an anonymous profile. Sign up show your face and let's talk. You made your community real proud today, choosing this post to spew at me personally. It's people like you, the misinformed,narrow minded, who think that carrying a sign and making a phone call alone will save our kids. It's people and thinking like yours that keep people like me out of the movement and keep the LGBT community from getting equal civil rights. You love to throw daggers at ideas that seem radical although tried and true, but offer none of your own. Channel some of that useless energy into saving our kids lives, it is wasted on me.
ReplyDeleteMT 10/9/2010