The thing is, what happened to minding your own business and keep walking? Where does it come in that once someone spots a gay guy its open season to beat and even kill the guy? I think that once upon a time African Americans were targeted for persecution but now that rarely if ever happens. With that in mind, homosexuality has been around since the dawn of time yet they're still being persecuted and hated. Perhaps if we got a gay man or woman into office the persecution will lessen. What would it take to stop? I'm assuming its not some disease or mental disability. Then what? why is the fact that just becuase one person is different from another violence has to ensue? and i know this is getting past just homosexuality but the fact is; this stuff happens and half the time we don't have a damn clue why.
Works Cited
WEST, FOYLE. "Londonderry mother seeks answer over son's death." BBC (2013): 1. Web.
I have to be honest: this post was really confusing. It seems as if you're taking the death of this young person a bit cynically or even sarcastically. And I don't think that's the impression you want to give to the topic: later in the post you do seem to care about the issue, but the tone of this post just seems wildly off.
ReplyDeleteAnd haven't we gotten gay and lesbian officials into office? What about Barney Frank or Tammy Baldwin? Add some depth to the discussion by tapping into how society has changed and why you had the instinct to just "push off" the story of son's death. Do you possibly think these crimes are oversaturated in the media? Is that causing some of the issue?