The meme that will not die -- blacks enabled Prop 8 to pass
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Dec 08, 2008 at 07:45:00 AM EST

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=71EC5028EA1C40C728930BDC49D18C05?diaryId=8534

It's really time to stop dancing around the fantasy of a post-racial America, particularly with the exposed nerves around Prop 8. Here's another example of jaw-dropping color arousal and unhelpful ruminating, this time in an op-ed by Caitlin Flanagan and Benjamin Schwarz in the NYT, "Showdown in the Big Tent" -- asserts most blacks are homophobic, apparently due to race itself.

    Christian teaching on marriage is not the only reason so many blacks supported Proposition 8. Although it has come as a shocking realization to many in this community, a host of sociological studies confirm that many blacks feel a significant aversion to homosexuality itself, finding it morally and sexually repugnant.

None of these studies is cited by the way, and besides, if we run with that ludicrous statement and take a look at general demographics in this country -- many whites feel a significant aversion to homosexuality as well, or we'd have marriage equality in quite a few more states. Homophobia has nothing to do with race; religious beliefs, levels of education and class are much better predictors -- and that applies across color lines.