LETTER TO EDITOR: Supporters of GSA respond to columnist
To other letters from GSA supporters
Dear Editor
I am a bigot. I do discriminate. When a member of the group that I find repulsive has anything to say at all, I find it almost impossible to acknowledge them.I suppose that deep down; I feel that they have no right to exist.I call this group “the inferiors” because that is how I see them. Some are gay, some are black, some are overweight, some look just like me.
These are the people who use the differences of others, whether it is their lifestyle, their beliefs or their color, to make themselves feel superior. Feel is the key word here. Finding fault in another person does not make you superior to them. It only serves to show the world how inferior you must feel – or why would you care?
People who are truly comfortable with their own lives do not look for reasons to put down others. The only people who do that are the ones who want someone to hate, or blame, or make fun of, perhaps to get back at the world for making fun of them. Most people look as people as people.
Take for example, a successful African American businessman. He is generally not finding fault with whites. They are prospective customers or clients, as are gays and Jews and everyone else he encounters.
Interestingly enough, your average black purse-snatching crack-head will have a totally different view of whites, and it isn’t very pretty.On the other hand your average purse-snatching white crack-head might just hate the rich, or all happy people.
People who feel inferior need someone to look down on- people who feel good about themselves do not.
In Nate Bloomquist’s article about the Gay Straight Alliance, he shows what a bigot he truly is. When he mentions that the civil rights movement was different because black people could not hide their color, I wanted to throw up. Would that have been his choice for them, as it obviously is for the gay and lesbian students at this school? Would the civil rights movement, too, not have been necessary if the African American people of this country could have just looked whiter?
t is not about being more like you, Nate. It is about being able to be yourself and not having to put up with grief for it. African Americans do not want to look white, gay people do not want to “act” straight. We are all students here. I am an older student. Should I be trying to look younger?
Your article has single-handedly PROVEN how much we need the Gay Straight Alliance.I take great offense when I read an article that says that this area is not ready for an organization like the GSA. We are ready for it. Some of us are even proud to live in an area where it is so well accepted.
If you are not ready for it, maybe you should sit down and figure out what you are feeling so inferior about.
B. Eddie Bauman