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Black Gay Dads Post Adorable Photo of Daughters, Get Bashed with Hate
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This face is bringing back memories. Painful, hair-tugging memories.
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lol, I used to laugh my ass off at my sisters hair popping like crazy when mom ran a comb through it. Until I remembered I was next.
When a straight dad gets blasted by the Internet for being an attentive father, what chance do two loving gay dads have?
None, as a viral Instagram photo of proud pops Kordale and Kaleb proved this week.
Power couple Kordale, of Chicago, and Kaleb, of Atlanta, clearly love their two daughters a perfect amount, as evidenced by the beautiful family photos being amassed on their Instagram account.
In their latest entry, Kaleb and Kordale can be seen getting two of their three children ready for school. The accompanying caption reads:
Being fathers is getting our daughters up at 5:30 am making breakfast getting them dressed for school and putting them on the bus by 6:30 .This is a typical day in our household . It's not easy but we enjoy every moment and eveny minute of #fatherhood. #proudfathers #blackfathers #prouddads #gaydads
Incidentally, it was exactly the same photo that got daddy blogger Doyin Richards inundated with hateful remarks last year.
While some saw an adorable daddies-daughters moment, others chose to make the kind of homophobic and racist comments that have become all too commonplace.
Though many of those comments and tweets have since been deleted — indeed, replaced with a backlash of love and support — it was enough to prompt Kordale and Kaleb to email HuffPost Gay Voices with a statement concerning the extreme reactions they've received to a seemingly innocuous family photo:
As far as the positive; yes we are two gay men with three kids who have no problem with preparing them for their education every morning; that comes with anything and everything they may need for school! Our kids are blessed to have three parents (Kordale, Kaleb and their Mother) who love, care and support them in every decision they have made and will continue to make as they get older. We are blessed to have the ability to provide for them in ways that a lot of people cannot for their family, which ultimately makes us happy knowing that they don't want for much! Our main objective as parents is to provide, love, educate, support, encourage, and love some more!
In regard to the negative, people fail to realize that we are people too with kids who love us. We do what is necessary for them to succeed in this ever-changing world but it's sad that we're discriminated against because of our sexuality and/or what we do behind closed doors — which is no one's business. In the same breath, we take all of what's been said in stride. The picture was put out on social media for an opinion so we can't be mad when people give just that: an opinion. People tend to think that gay people cannot raise their children to be heterosexuals. Instead, they have derogatory thoughts of us "tainting" our children or "confusing them" with what society sees deems as wrong an unmanly because we're gay. But this is all comical because people forget where a lot of gays come from: a heterosexual household.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Obama to Discuss NSA Reform With Lawmakers
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U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with several lawmakers on Thursday to discuss reforms to the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, which were exposed last year by former contractor Edward Snowden.
The small but high-profile meeting was first reported by the National Journal, and a White House spokesperson later confirmed the news to Mashable.
Obama will reportedly only invite the chairmen and ranking members of both the Senate and House of Representatives Judiciary and Intelligence committees.
"Key players" such as Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who havebeen fighting to reform the NSA's spying programs for years, as well as Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), author of the Patriot Act and a government official who is sponsoring a sweeping reform bill, will also be attending, according to the National Journal. Wyden and Udall's press secretaries did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
White House spokesperson Caitlin Hayden confirmed to Mashable that Obama will meet with Congressional leaders on Thursday, but declined to provide further details. Hayden said this is just one more in a series of meetings with various stakeholders, as the administration reviews the NSA's programs.
"The president will also hold meetings with individuals with a variety of perspectives as we near the final stages of our ongoing internal review," she said in an email.
Obama will hold two separate meetings with Intelligence Community leaders and members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Wednesday, Hayden added.
Before Christmas, Obama met with several tech leaders at the White House, who asked him to rein in the NSA's spying powers. Mark Pincus, co-founder of social-gaming company Zynga even asked the president to pardon Snowden.
Obama is getting ready to introduce several reform proposals in the wake of a report by the administration's internal-review panel, which proposed ending the controversial NSA's bulk telephone metadata collection program, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.
It's unclear when Obama's proposals will be unveiled. Hayden, a White House spokesperson, told Mashable that Obama will deliver "remarks" about the panel's findings before the State of the Union address on Jan. 28, but declined to specify a date.
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Monday, January 6, 2014
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