Should SF reach out to winners of the Hate Election?

Since the great Hate Election(s) of 2004, many persons have been advising us "San Francisco liberals" (code for queers and our allies)
to understand and placate the bigots who voted for hate amendments,
and who boosted Bush into a second term.

Like, we should become more sensitive to their "cultural"
(code for fundi-fanatic) concerns?

Like, we should stop mocking their obsolete backwardness?

Should African-Americans, in the Sixties and Seventies,
have been more sensitive to the
bigots who brutally attacked them, from Birmingham to Boston?

To promote understanding, should black and brown and native citizens have postponed
their struggles for freedom and equal rights?

Well, if others wish to reach out and make dialog with fundi bigots, that's nice.
I don't object.


But I have nothing to say to fascists,
beyond this prophesy:

"Your great-grandchildren
won't approve and won't respect
what you did in 2004."


-- Carl Cole,
alive and queer in San Francisco,
November 9, 2004
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PLEASE REPOST.
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