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Everybody should know better.  But the fact is that the victims of persecution are seldom ennobled by it, and we should not be surprised that intolerance can take hold in any group of people.

I think we have to take a step back on the issue of the black vote on gay marriage.  The primary reason this made the news is not because blacks owe some special duty to equality, above and beyond that of another group.  It is because there is this paradox for liberals in 2008 and maybe 2012.  Obama  energized the black vote in 2008 and[b] that had an ironic side effect on gay marriage referenda. [/b] The better he does at mobilizing them, the more votes he will likely bring against any other issue.  That's it, really.
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I agree with all of your post except the part in bold. Black people were not the deciding factor in the passage of Prop 8. In fact, if not a single black person had voted in the election, Prop 8 still would have passed.

I think what was really glossed over was that blacks make up only ~6% of California's population.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/12/01/081201taco_talk_hertzberg?printable=true#ixzz1uU12iBzv
http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/issues/egan_sherrill_prop8_1_6_09.pdf[/quote]

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