Taking Back Our Rainbow
THIS is what is wrong
with our society’s obsession with every detail of our lives dictated by fear of
being “politically incorrect”:
"I had no social
or political statements in mind. I did not take into consideration that nooses
are a racially charged symbol, for that I am sorry." Whether this person meant to offend anyone is for her and her ALONE to know.
Nooses by nature have always have been controversial, but
when coupled with the RAINBOW in this example, they are suddenly a racial slur,
“… given that the nooses were in the
colors of the movement's rainbow flag.”
HOWEVER, when a racial, societal, or political faction “STEALS”
a heretofore benign and often revered symbol as THEIR icon, ALONE, they are
stealing EVERYONE ELSE’S right to it.
Tell me, good people – isn’t time we TAKE BACK OUR RAINBOW?! Rainbows were once a bright symbol of hope, peace, and renewed promise.
Tell me, good people – isn’t time we TAKE BACK OUR RAINBOW?! Rainbows were once a bright symbol of hope, peace, and renewed promise.
Now, the colorful arc is forcibly aligned with the gay
community – and the rest of us apparently have no right to use the beautiful
rainbow – that dates back in culture to the flood story of Noah! * – as a
source of comfort and courage.
I love RAINBOWS,**
not because of WHAT I am, but because of WHO I am! An upbeat, half-glass-full
kinda person who just happens to be a straight, white, fun-loving hippie, tired
of blending in with the SILENT majority! :-)
And before I start getting hate mail from activists in the
LGBT community, I’m not anti-gay or really anti-much-of-anything. I simply don’t
want to be labeled gay when I’m not, for displaying a beautiful Rainbow, or accused of using a gay symbol
“irreverently” – without thought that it could mean anything else. (“Gay” btw, also
used to mean happy, carefree …)
THE RAINBOW BELONGS TO EVERYONE.Let's take it back to where it belongs ... everywhere.
* “
… where it is a sign
of God's covenant to never destroy all life on earth with a global flood again.
(Rainbow in the book of Genesis.)”
** Judy Garland
sang the ultimate Rainbow song in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Wiki reports: “In
the 1960s, a reporter asked how she felt about having a large gay following.
She replied, ‘I couldn't care less. I sing to people.’[129]”
