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Title: People of color are not to blame for California passing Prop 8
Post by: Shana A on November 08, 2008, 11:19:42 AM
Post by: Shana A on November 08, 2008, 11:19:42 AM
Friday, November 07, 2008
People of color are not to blame for California passing Prop 8
Posted by Kerrick at 8:55 PM
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/people-of-color-are-not-to-blame-for.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/people-of-color-are-not-to-blame-for.html)
First, let me just say this: This is a little ranty, and the ranting is not directed, as far as I know, at anyone on this blog or anyone I know personally. A good bit of frustration about the anti-gay amendments is spilling out in all kinds of different directions in all kinds of different communities. Some of it's been spilling over into blame-slinging racism from white queers. Now some of it's spilling over into blame-slinging at our not entirely effective marriage equality campaign, which didn't really do half a bad job considering what we were up against... but clearly we needed to do better, and we needed to do better in one specific area in particular: Involving people of color.
Okay, folks, there's been a good bit of noise in the blagosphere that if Black and Latino voters only hadn't turned up to the polls in record numbers to vote for Barack Obama, Prop 8 wouldn't have gotten passed and (presumably white) queers would have nothing to do but celebrate on November 5th.
But Dan Savage can bite me.
People of color are not to blame for California passing Prop 8
Posted by Kerrick at 8:55 PM
http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/people-of-color-are-not-to-blame-for.html (http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/people-of-color-are-not-to-blame-for.html)
First, let me just say this: This is a little ranty, and the ranting is not directed, as far as I know, at anyone on this blog or anyone I know personally. A good bit of frustration about the anti-gay amendments is spilling out in all kinds of different directions in all kinds of different communities. Some of it's been spilling over into blame-slinging racism from white queers. Now some of it's spilling over into blame-slinging at our not entirely effective marriage equality campaign, which didn't really do half a bad job considering what we were up against... but clearly we needed to do better, and we needed to do better in one specific area in particular: Involving people of color.
Okay, folks, there's been a good bit of noise in the blagosphere that if Black and Latino voters only hadn't turned up to the polls in record numbers to vote for Barack Obama, Prop 8 wouldn't have gotten passed and (presumably white) queers would have nothing to do but celebrate on November 5th.
But Dan Savage can bite me.