Last month, the credit crisis was being blamed on poor, mostly minority borrowers. Now it is the homophobic black voters' fault that gays don't get to marry. -raghu.
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/14016/ -----------------------------------snip Before the ballot-counting was even finished, the finger-pointing began. The media reported that 70 percent of African American voters voted for the amendment, sparking cries of betrayal within the gay community. Rather than noting the need for unity and looking at the actual numbers, some white gay activists turned to racist attacks painting the African American community as homophobic. One prominent gay writer, Dan Savage, wrote, "I'm done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there — and they're out there and I think they're scum — are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color." At a demonstration against Prop. 8 in LA after the vote, gay African Americans wearing anti-Prop.-8 shirts were verbally attacked by other demonstrators using racist epithets. But let's look at the numbers behind the frenzy. The poll so often cited is a CNN exit poll of 2,240 voters. Of those, 10 percent were African American, 64 percent were white and 18 percent were Latino. I was not able to find raw data on voting patterns by race for Prop. 8. I used the stats from CNN's poll and applied them to the total number of votes for and against this amendment. I came out with a very different situation from what's been bandied about. -- "Really ?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!" _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
