If we weren’t dealing with such high caliber folks in our opposition, the above headline would not be possible, but yes, indeed, Matt Barber is mad at the NAACP for supporting marriage equality, and he, white man, would like to man-splain a few things to the NAACP about so-called “civil rights.”
This move is not sitting well with Matt Barber, who is accusing the organization of making the announcement simply in order to provide political cover for President Obama and, in doing so, “thumbing their nose at their own constituents.” On top of that, Barber said the resolution was “offensive,” declaring “how dare they demean and undermine and cheapen the genuine, noble civil rights movement” by supporting “deviant sexual behavior” especially since gays never had to drink from separate water fountains or were victims of lynchings.
Actually, gays have been beaten and murdered for decades simply for being gay. Kids in school are bullied to death right this minute by people influenced by the likes of Matt Barber. But, in pointing that out, I don’t want to distract readers from the sheer arrogance and stupidity exhibited by a low-grade wingnut who works at a clown college deigning to explain to national civil rights leaders what sorts of civil rights they should and should not support. I guess Matt just doesn’t think they know their places.
Matt Barber offends me!
He is an idiot. Enuff said.
Maybe we didn’t have separate water fountains, but if we wanted to have a *drink* in a safe environment, we had to establish our own bars; and even they were raided regularly and often run by organized crime with over priced drinks and watered down alcohol. Matt’s drag name should be Moronika.
I take issue, with the slam on clown college. As a former performer with Ringling Bros. myself, I can attest that their clown college would never turn out such alumnus as Liberty U.
Liberty U was established by a staunch segregationist. Jerry Falwell was a strong critic of Dr. King and the work of the civil rights movement. The Civil Rights Act, Falwell complained, was an affront to ‘decency, the rights of moral Christian Americans, and a secure society.’
After the murders of King and Robert Kennedy, he toned his rhetoric down a bit and later pretended he didn’t say what he had.
So Barber is repeating history. Falwell slammed the NAACP too.
And yes, a white man like Barber lecturing to a still venerated org like the NAACP is showing ignorant arrogance so very typical of your average garden variety bigot.
Brian Brown as the same issues too and like to take offense at any parallels to civil rights struggles by gays, with blacks.
But has claimed that being restricted to vote on gay lives is the same as that of blacks being restricted to vote.
In other words, apparently white, hetero, Christian males like Barber and Brown, ARE THE NEW BLACK and cannot for the life of them, see the incredible irony and hypocrisy in EVERYTHING they do or say.
What an ignoramus. Just about evety white supremicist group in the country is also rabidly anti-gay. So in addition to being a patronizing jackass, Barber is also incredibly dishonest.
I wonder if he knows the history of the pink triangle
Darren, he probably believes Scott Lively’s claims about the Nazis.
The reality is a large number of African Americans agree with what he states. And the reality is that the NAACP may well be providing Obama cover.
You might want to revisit the name of this blog. Try it out. You might win a few folk interested in truth.
We see a continuation of the sinful race-baiting strategy employed by other militant anti-gay pressure groups. Shrill anti-gay activist Barber is trying desperately to drive a wedge between gay Americans and African-Americans.
S respondent, the reality is that fewer and fewer blacks agree with Barber all the time, as is evidenced by the huge shift in support amongst blacks towards marriage equality. Anti-gay bigotry isn’t sustainable on a large scale in the long run.
Survey Respondent, are you on NOM’s payroll by any chance?
@Survey respondent: So you’re cool with a white wingnut from a worldview, large swaths of which still don’t agree with the ORIGINAL Civil Rights movement, dictating what black folks should think about political issues?
Like Bam Bam really gives a darn about people of color, except to the extent that he can use them as political pawns.
What Buffy said.
This fool Barber still believes we are his slaves, that he can feign outrage to rile us up? Preposterous!
I could not agree more with the sentiments of this article and this critique of a white social conservative thinking it is his place to offer advice to black civil rights leaders or school them on their history. But neither do I think it is my place as a white social progressive to do that. In my day to day interactions, I presently encounter a lot of African Americans who – while parting with Barber on a whole host of issues – share his dissatisfaction with recent remarks from the president and the NAACP’s recent stance. In these encounters I attempt to set my own voice aside and instead offer the voices of black visionaries past and present who see the connection between various struggles for human dignity. Voices like Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader, gay activist and adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King (http://tinyurl.com/743l658), Dr. Michael Eric Dyson recipient of 3 NAACP awards (http://youtu.be/uw3sqpbrwfs), Dr. Cornel West (http://tinyurl.com/7frovsz) or Bishop Yvette Flunder (http://tinyurl.com/3ycssop)
How dare he!?!
Aulton got it right. He thinks he can stir up trouble with his little rant – if only enough people actually payed any heed to to this painfully stupid miscreant!