Video: Marriage Inequality Like Jim Crow

@ Sam....As a black lesbian, i don't take it offensively. i clearly don't speak for all black people, but the point is not to compare who had it worse but to refer to the horrible acts of the past so that people connect that they are repeating their past. maybe not in the same way. as i said in a previous comment, discrimination is a lot more latent today. but to make this clear even the women's civil right movement made reference to the black civil rights movement in the past and the same issues came up. its sad but the black civil rights movement serves as a great example of blatant discrimination and allows us to make it more obvious by comparing the inequality in having separate but unequal institutions. sometimes you have to put images to really get ppl to understand what u tell them in words everyday. I recommend you watch this video from Julian Bond, NAACP Chairman: http://bit.ly/cm67TO

To Sam, I think Martin Luther King Jr.'s quote might say it all with respect to the similarities and differences of the African-American and LGBT civil rights movements (among other movements): "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." If one group is being treated unequally, it may be only a matter of time before many other minorities are treated similarly. To me, it would be prudent and beneficial for minority groups, no matter their honored and respected hardships, to come together in fighting for and preserving equality and civil rights.

This is so offensive. I am queer, and I think equating the experience of being denied some protections for couples with a VIOLENTLY oppressive system of segregation whose economic and interpersonal effects we still feel today is EXTREMELY IGNORANT, at best. Who do they think they are winning over with this stunt? I'll give you a hint; no people of color who had to survive Jim Crow Apartheid. I find this disgusting, insensitive, and fucking stupid. I'm not sure I support the movement for marriage equality if this is an acceptable tactic.

@Bob... you wouldn't call exclusion from services, denial of rights, losing jobs, demotion from jobs, rape, beatings, and murder real discrimination? his more facts on lgbt hate crimes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2nNzq2CrBo do your research before you spew lies

Bob, all discrimination is real no matter the severity, but maturity can be assessed at any point along the spectrum (such as yours and mine for example).

This a joke right? You sissies are pathetic and have never faced any real discrimination.

(woops it cut me off) Julian Bond (NAACP Chairman) has said before, "gay rights aren't special rights in any way. It isn't special to be free from discrimination - that is an ordinary, universal entitlement of citizenship." The parallels are so obvious. A group of people are forced to partake in inferior institutions to try to exercise their right to marry due to other people's assumption of their "inherent" inferiority. Yes this is a more philosophical and abstract example. It's not as blatantly obvious and jarring as actually being in the time where these things occurred, but to be fair discrimination is a lot more latent today in general and sometimes has to be decoded, especially institutionalized discrimination. Nonetheless, it is a civil rights issue, there are 1400 rights accorded to heterosexuals through marriage that are denied to same sex partners. That is clearly unequal and discrimination.

You don't have to be black to understand and recognize discrimination. We need to accept the parallels between the movements. The Civil Rights Movement belongs to no one group. Paralleling doesn't compare or quantify that they are the same or decide which was worse. I'm not here fighting to say whose "hood" was worse, which I would argue is a pointless and stupid fight. What is the point in comparing whose been attacked and victimized worse when the point is that we both have been attacked and victimized. There is no need to create a hierarchy. Wrong is wrong. Discrimination is discrimination. I feel that by symbolizing the "separate but equal" in the marriage equality fight by using the fountains of the Black Civil Rights Movement it honors that movement. Also we should take note of what Julian Bond (NAACP Chairman) has said before, "gay rights aren't special rights in any way. It isn't special to be free from discrimination - that is an ordinary, universal ent

What a surprise it's a white guy who is making a back of the bus comparison again.

Why does the old-gay-dude sounds so whimpy? I busted up laughing when I heard him speak.