Ok fine, i'm convinced, but where the fuck have they been?
Genocide against the natives.
Slavery slavery slavery. Slavery.
Post slavery
Jim crow
COINTELPRO
The red scare
The war on drugs
The war on terrorism.
In those instances people, Americans, (many, if not most of them innocent) have been killed, tortured, terrorized, etc. To what avail?
Now we at war, cause gay or "they" people show up on our favorite TV shows? That's what's going to motivate us to say "we finally had enough". I don't believe it.