If My Black Ancestors Knew We'd Be This Damn Popular They Also Expected Blacks To Be Farther Ahead By Now

If you read enough history, and you're black, you should be forgiven for thinking gays never had an original idea in their lives:

“The template for this idea of separatism is black separatism,” Todd Gitlin, a sociology professor at Columbia University and the author of “The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage,” said. “The coverage of the Nation of Islam gained enormous traction with Malcolm X. Via him, separatism was in the air. Run a few years ahead and more people were estranged from normalcy––and normalcy was looking crazier because of the Vietnam War. The appeal of separatism is compounded. You have all kinds of versions of this; various forms of unplugging.” 

There is no reliable record of how many women were calling themselves lesbian separatists at the height of the movement,...

A cultish world without men - right: 

 Malcolm would've totally endorsed that.

And did you notice two things:

1. How gays immediately set about destroying the world blacks were fighting to enter? Thanks guys and gals. Much appreciated. Made it all worth it. 

2. The phrase "normalcy was looking crazier"? How it was rolled over without contending with the obvious implication tucked within it - that it was those "looking" at normalcy who were growing "crazier"? No, couldn't be, because now they're our heroes - right?

 Unless you're some new kind of weirdo yourself,...