Recently, God-fearing Christian and Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield was denied restaurant service, and as he explained in a post on his blog, he feels like the restaurant discriminated against him on the basis of his religious status. Pointing out the terrible plight of white, heterosexual Christian males in the South, Campfield notes his surprise that "some people still support segregation" against that minority group and suggests that his "civil rights were violated under the 1964 [C]ivil [R]ights [A]ct." He shouldn't be too surprised.
Given the long history of civil rights violations against that unpopular minority (including, but not limited to, the destruction of their First Amendment rights on a staggering level), the intense, state-sanctioned campaign of violence and terrorism waged against this innocent minority relentlessly for over a century, and the systematic separation of these human beings from the rest of civilization through our laws and institutions, it was inevitable that someone would eventually take up this fight for the reinstatement of their civil rights.
Since the parallels between his being asked to eat elsewhere for lunch and the Civil Rights Era are obvious, I need not waste my time insulting your intelligence by over-explaining the struggle.
I will only say that I feel it's time to take a stand on behalf of all oppressed white, heterosexual, Christian males.
So to anyone who has ever been advised to eat at your second choice of restaurant, this is for you. To anyone who has ever felt the burn of a glare after sharing your unscientific and remarkably implausible theory about how AIDS originated from a guy "screwing a monkey," this is for you. To anyone who has witnessed the hopeless, remote feeling of despair and disapproval when you've spouted the intensely ridiculous thought that bullying is the "biggest lark out there," this is for you. To anyone who is, like Stacey, so thoroughly disenfranchised by our political and legal system that you can't catch a break, this is for you.
I feel your pain. I just want you to know I consider your plight to be the civil rights fight of my generation. There is nothing more important to me right now. Progress in this country depends on defending the rights of the least among us, and I think we all know who fits into that category best.
This is why I'm organizing "Sit-ins for Stacey," an attempt to begin the long fight ahead to secure civil rights for those facing discrimination and for those with no recourse. We will of course face police violence and campaigns to terrorize this minority group, as we've seen in past civil rights campaigns, but we will prevail. Through long-term, concerted efforts, beginning with lunch counter sit-ins and hopefully culminating in the coming together of Americans of all stripes, we will combat anti-white, anti-male, and anti-heterosexual sentiment wherever we find it. This hatred must end. Our brothers and sisters deserve nothing less.
Please, everyone, join my Facebook page to learn about these events and help us fight for the civil rights of all oppressed minorities.
Please support this petition, as well.
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He helps the bootleggers in eastern tennessee (for a piece of the action). He goes to cock fights as well as dog fights (as he once told an audience, "its good fun").
Yeah, a real upright politican.
God bless America.
46% of Mississippi Republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal (source: PPP). Civil Rights shouldn't be put to a referendum on the ballot or in the State Assemblies. Because a good chunk of people in this country would hurt others just to make themselves feel better about their own failed lives.
I'm getting awfully sick of hearing how bad straight white male christians have it in this world.
Ever heard the one about the world's smallest violin?
It ought to be easy to provide enough 60" Televisions ( I almost wrote "TVs ooops) around the country out in the street and the other sit in locations ! along with a jillion chicken wings and thousands of gallons of guacamole!
Stacey: Quit wallowing in self pity and think about someone else besides yourself!! Try being bullied for something you are born with instead of perceived discrimination!! Walk in someone else's shoe for a while, you'll be suprised what people have to put up with.
Am I understanding this right. The man is going to cry because someone asked his bigitoed ass to leave and eat somewhere else. This man stomps on everyone else rights, why is he crying?
He already said some more stuff. He apparently thinks that gays are discriminated against through insurance policies overcharging us... and so he wants more discrimination.
Try being a non-white homosexual non-Christian and see what kind of treatment that gets you. Law makers who won't allow you to marry, or have your culture mentioned in schools, invitations to the office Christmas party and asked to buy a secret santa gift. Need to vacation days to get your religious holidays off, people asking you stero-type questions about your race (oh your daughter's sick, is it sickle cell anemia? no it's leukemia. It's as if they need to prove they know about being black because they know about sickle cell. I am only 1/64 south african, and look whiter than a ghost, but I saw this happen to a co-worker, and she was very upset. No one just hugged her and wish her the best, or asked what was wrong, they all played the black illness guessing game.
A gay couple was asked to leave a resturant outside of Chicago a few years ago, where was Campfield then scolding IL on it violation of civil liberties.
Probably mocking them and making stupid stuff up about HIV.