Talking Tolerance, Achieving Equality and Why It’s In To Be Out

Another closet opens

John Ameachi a former NBA basketball player wrote a book and came out of the closet as a gay man. This is all over the news media like white on rice. Every news interview with pro basketball players includes a question about their opinion on the situation. In reality who cares. The man is retired and lives across the pond in merry old England . It is absurd that this person is making headlines in America . Why? Simply because before John Ameachi announced he was gay there were not ten NBA fanatics that remembered, the guy ever played the game. To sell his book, he went public by proclaiming he is opening the closet door. The ideal Ameachi is attempting is sort of a conundrum. He is making a big deal in the book about being gay to challenge the attitude of making a big deal over someone being gay. The truth is, if he dealt with his gayness as an abstract subject instead of a focal point it would not be such a big deal at all. In fact, right now at the rate celebrities and athletes are announcing their sexual preferences it is in to be out. It gets notice and raises the recognition level. For John Ameachi it will sell another book.

A solution

Knowing humanity as I do, we are never going to find that middle of the road. We are always going to discriminate against something or someone it is our nature. So, I have a proposal based upon one of the aspects of addiction recovery. Most people achieve recovery from their addiction by substituting something else in its place. For example recovering alcoholics who smoke and drink coffee will increase those two habits. I think the same can be done to achieve tolerance and equality. In order to achieve tolerance and equality, we must become prejudiced. I mean this in a good way. By becoming prejudiced against people who discriminate and have intolerance we can than achieve true equality. All we are doing is applying a principle that has helped to turn the lives around of many people who suffer from substance abuse. Mark my words it will work because intolerance and prejudice are just another form of abuse only with people as the substance.

Working the reverse declaration press release

As I have just released my second book, Depression Caring Coping Loving Sharing Surviving Depression, I will reveal my sexual predilection. Unlike John Ameachi, I am straight and I am magnetically attracted to woman. You can call it another one of thoses white on rice situations. I like all kinds of them and I do not discriminate against color, race, or religion. Though I do discriminate by being staunchly gender specific, so gender bender’s no matter how cute don’t make the grade. In a sense this is a reverse of coming out. I guess that means I am staying in. I am quite comfortable with myself that way and proud of it. Despite this proclamation, I do not see that this news is going to cause headlines and help sell any more copies of my book. Now, that is an example of intolerance and lack of equality at work in a negative way.