What is the most liberal city in the South (state, better, compared)
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You realize that as a black man, you have protections that gays don't right? You can't have someone come up to you and say "Hey, you're black. I gotta fire you." Then when you get home, your landlord approaches you and says "I don't like negros living in my building. You have to go. I don't let black people live here." Can they circumvent that somehow and say you were underperforming at work and you caused disruptions in your home? Yes of course. But those have to be proven and can be challenged. Gays don't have those rights. A gay BLACK man in Houston can be fired just for being gay, not for being black. He can show up to work one day and his boss says "I just found out you're a f****t so I'm firing you" and there's not a single thing that man can do. He can bring his new boyfriend to his apartment one day, and the landlord can say "I don't allow f****ts to sodomize each other in my building. Get out!"
If you care more about veterans than transgendered, that's great. But you can care about both at the same time. I do. That's why I vote for liberal progressive politicians who push for the rights of both of those groups. Furthermore, the bill wasn't all about transgendered people using bathrooms. The religious right turned it into that. It was securing protections from discrimination for all people under the LGBT umbrella.
Atlanta, when you get out of the city, it gets very conservative fairly quickly, even including inner-rung suburbs. While Miami is even liberal (for southern standards) all the way to Palm Beach. If this is a battle of city limits only, then Atlanta.
Atlanta, when you get out of the city, it gets very conservative fairly quickly, even including inner-rung suburbs. While Miami is even liberal (for southern standards) all the way to Palm Beach. If this is a battle of city limits only, then Atlanta.
Decatur is definitely liberal which is considering an inner rung suburb.
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Decatur is definitely liberal which is considering an inner rung suburb.
Yeah, I'm curious what this person means.
Of the inner ring suburbs Decatur, East Point, College Park, Hapeville are definitely solid blue. Chamblee and Doraville are definitely more mixed politically, but lean blue. While Sandy Springs and Dunwoody lean red, but not in a Southern conservative way. Those areas are mostly populated by northern Republican transplants aka they don't give a crap about the culture wars.
I'm calling it how I see it, bro. As a black man in this country I still get second class treatment compared to a gay white male. There isn't a single ordinance man can draw up that will stop a black man from being fired because of his skin color, if they really want him gone.
Social media and popular opinion are what's driving this whole thing, and it's the "in" thing to do to be all for gay rights. You can't be a cool or progressive city unless you're following the trend. That's the only reason a city as tolerant and openminded as Houston will be labeled a conservative backwater simply because they want to draw the line somewhere.
As a black man calling it how I see it, you are an embarrassment.
Do black people face immense discrimination to this day? Yes. Is discrimination of one group more significant than the next? No.
The voters already put a non-discrimination in place and now the council is strengthening it.
And to the poster saying that a black hetreo man has less rights than a white gay man, no way on earth.
I never said hetero and I never said gay men officially have more rights. You guys assume A LOT of **** around here.
So will this decision be prompting you to leave the Houston area?
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