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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This is exactly my point. I don't think it's silly to care about the black vote on gay marriage, because it's important and I'm glad to see more blacks (just like more people of all races) are becoming more open minded with each year that passes.

What I find troubling is the hyperfocus on the black vote, and the obsession with holding up blacks as the most important reason gay marriage isn't legal. It's simply not true, and people are willing to ignore the truth or make up their own "truth" to reinforce this idea. This smacks of racism and wanting blacks to "know their place."

There are five or so threads in the last week about blacks neon enemy number one of gay marriage. No threads on any other racial or ethnic group who is against it. I just don't believe that it's not part of the centuries-long American obsession with painting everything blacks do as wrong.

There are zero responses to the thread about the progress beig made among religious black people in regards to gay marriage. There are tons of responses in this and other threads.

On black forums, this issue is bong debated, but it's bot being debated so simplistically because the posters recognize the issue is obviously larger than "black people hate gays, how dare we do so, we once weren't allowed to vote." The debate is actually about religion and human rights, which are the real issues.

Pleas excuse any typos, I'm on a phone. [/quote]

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