Race, sexuality, and Proposition 8
Filed by: Alex Blaze
November 6, 2008 3:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/race_sexuality_and_proposition_8.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/race_sexuality_and_proposition_8.php)
In the wake of the passage of Proposition 8, I'm troubled by the resurgence of "blame black people" rhetoric coming from some some gay people. It's not that African Americans didn't vote for Prop 8 in a higher percentage than the rest of the population - the exit polls indicate they did - it's that it's coming with an unhealthy dose of dickishness, asking us to stop engaging the black religious community (as if we ever seriously did), and instead.... Well, I don't know what the "instead" is, other than possibly joining Republican efforts to disenfranchise minority voters.
And, in a super-douchy move, many of these gays are attaching the "Well, I guess I'm just not PC" to the end of their claims. It should be heretofore known as the "Ace of Douchebaggeries" because trumps all douchebaggery committed in a conversation by anyone else by signaling a complete indifference to the fact that such rhetoric will be interpreted as racist. It's that same sentiment that we LGBT people are usually working against, "I don't think the fudge packers aren't equal, so I guess that means that I'm not PC." Just ask Jim Naugle, crusader against gay bathroom sex.