The day I was ashamed to be Black

I have always been proud of my ethnicity, but last week I have really had to qurestion this. and here is why, We have been fighting all our lives for equal protections and rights. but last week I found out the Black community was by far the biggest athnic group to support Prop 8, so now you are going to say "well I believe in the bible and thats that, but I have to tell you this you have just voted 10% of blacks to the back of the bus. I have seen discrimination often as a black man, but try walking down the street holding someone of the same genders hand and its not dirty looks you get, it puts you in physical danger, and people have no problem yelling there oppinions at you. I have walked in both shoes that as a black man and a Gay man,right now as a black man I pretty much have full legal rights, but because I am Gay I now don't, the man I have been with for 16 years who is Mexican cannot get any rights to be legalized as my partner, he is still illegal because the court system will not recognize us as a couple, he has paid half the money for my house, and if anything happened to me he would get nothing, Civil Unions do not give you these kind of rights, as a gay we wanted civil unions to be equal but everyone apposed that, now with no recause we have tried to get the legal rights a married couple have which is marrige, and my own community where the loudest voice against it. I hope you are all proud. I never chose to be Gay who would? I got kicked out my home when my family found out. Now 10% of your own community are sitting on the back of the bus again like 1954, I cannot fight in the army, get married, sounds familliar right? Why couldn't you have just left it blank, as if to say I don't believe in same sex marriages, but I sure as hell am not to vote 10% of my own groups rights away to hurt people and take rights away, if you care about marriage so much go after diviorce, or is it true we are just a Homophobic minority?