Comment on Proud - My Blood by kingpin1055

Thanks. As I plotted it out I mulled over the quote from The Merchant of Venice:

hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
- William Shakespeare

I hadn't actually seen the full speech from Shylock until just now as I compiled this post, the selection section certainly has more than a few echoing notes with what a lot of us have, will and could go through.


And in addition to highlighting that there are so who are attached for nothing more than being gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender, it's also designed to highlight the resiliance a lot of these individuals have: they may be injured, but it only serves to strengthen their spirit in facing their oppressors.