Reverse Hate Crimes?

Damien Furtch, the 26 year old that was attacked

Just the other day, a gay man was beat in the West Village.
The West Village in New York City.
Aka the Gay Central of NYC.
How does that happen?
It blows me, truly it does, that it would
1) happen one of our "safe havens" and 2) happen in the tri-state alone.
You hear about shit like this in the south and midwest, not in one of the most diverse areas in the States.



It just kinda took me back for a minute.
In a fit of anger and rage,
I thought about retaliation.
The thought of gathering a few gay guys to roam the streets,
picking fights with any straight person we wanted to.
Give them a taste of the fear we had to live with.

What would happen then?
Would we be put under the same scrutiny for our actions?
If there was a group of black kids going around trashing white kids,
would they go to jail any faster or slower?
What if females started committing rapes and abuse?
Would the men be pitied or told to man up?

They are a lot of ifs running through my head,
like what if they was a world were discrimination was on the other foot.
Where the blacks enslaved Europeans,
where Asian immigrants worked the demeaning jobs,
where Hispanics and Latinos were joked about the most without fear
and sought the most to be accepted.

Perhaps I'm just letting my radical mind get the better of me,
but sometimes it's necessary to think about a different world
to be able to deal with the one you actually live in.
Word.