John Dean on Prop 8 and the blame game
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8596Pam Spaulding
Fri Dec 12, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM EST
While he's a little late with a reaction to the results of Prop 8, John Dean weighs in with an insightful look on the matter of race and the ballot initiative, "Why Claims that Black Californians Deserve Blame for the Passage of California's Anti-Gay-Marriage Proposition 8 Are Unfair and Untrue."
Shortly before the November 2008 election, I asked an African American friend how he was going to vote on Proposition 8. I did not think much about that conversation before the election, but afterward, I realized it went a long way in explaining why Prop. 8 succeeded, with the help of black voters. Now, it is up to the California Supreme Court to say whether, in fact, a simple majority of California voters can deny gays equality. But it's possible that it did not have to be that way - and the failure to make the anti-Prop. 8 case effectively to black voters may well be to blame for our current situation.
