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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]
I don't see how that makes the black vote any more or less right.  Plus you are essentially making an argument that black voters don't matter because they aren't a big enough constituency, which is not a position that benefits the black community.

In fact every voter matters.  Each of us shares responsibility for the outcome.[/quote]
I think the PP was not saying that black voters are unimportant, but that their votes did not determine the outcome in California, and that it's silly to make a fuss about "the black vote" on gay marriage.[/quote]

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