Reply #99: Thank you. I don't know why some are being so defensive about it [View All]

[magellan]

The number of blacks who voted one way or another on Prop 8 is irrelevant. It's the fact that 70% of them voted to ban same-sex marriage that's disturbing and disappointing.

I heard this matter discussed on Rachel's show tonight, much as you write, and even before that I understood the hurt on the part of gays about the percentage of black voters who supported Prop 8. Rachel's guest, Melissa Harris-Lacewell (Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton), said there's an equivalence between black civil rights and gay civil rights.

She then cited Loving v. Virginia (SCOTUS, 1967), which ended legal restrictions against interracial marriages in the US.

Either memories are short or the voters were too young to understand it wasn't that long ago when their right to marry whoever they loved was denied.