October 6, 2008

Heads-Up, Black Voters: The Anti-Gay Brigades Think You’re a Monolithic Voting Bloc of Bigots

Yes, I do wonder — and worry — about the effect of hardcore right-wingers in conservative black churches affecting the defeat of Proposition 8, California’s anti-equality bill. (I also worry about hardcore right-wingers in conservative white churches, Asian churches, and racially-diverse churches — but that’s not the point here.)

Still, I don’t view African-Americans as a monolithic voting bloc any more than I view LGBT Americans as one (if only we were!). Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you view the cocksure smugness of the anti-marriage crusaders), it appears the pro-8 camp doesn’t share my view — and are taking it for granted that they’ve got the anti-gay vote in the bag, “thanks” to black voters.

I’m finally understanding what the anti-gay bigots really mean when they say they’re counting on AA’s for Obama to tip the Prop 8 scales in their direction: They think you’re all of the same mind, AA’s. They think you’re all alike.

Never mind that black LGBTs are (as usual) completely absent from any discussion — that’s not even the point. The point is that the anti-gay bigots think all black Americans are easily manipulated.

I dunno — maybe they’re so tunnelvisioned, they assume all black Americans are hardcore conservative churchgoers — which would be like saying that all gay men are hair stylists and interior decorators (and they probably believe that, too).

Or maybe, as they are so easily manipulated and completely devoid of the ability to think independently themselves, they’re just projecting their own weakness and ignorance onto black voters. (That would make sense, as they live to project what they hate most in themselves onto others.)

In any case, it looks like the anti-gay bigots, black and white alike, share the same passive-aggressive racism of Jennifer Roback Morse:

Gay Marriage Opponents “Thank” Obama

Those campaigning in California for Proposition 8, which would reinstate the ban on gay marriage, believe they’ll get a lot of unintended help from Barack Obama on Election Day, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

“We thank Barack Obama, even though he’s not supporting it, for helping us,” says Sonja Eddings Brown, of an anti-gay-marriage group called Protect Marriage. “We think it’s going to push us over the top.”

Obama is expected to bring African-American voters out in record numbers, and those voters are seen as often being more conservative on issues involving homosexuality.

Pastor Edward Smith of Zoe Christian Fellowship has been urging members of his Los Angeles area church to vote for the gay marriage ban. …

But many African-American supporters of gay marriage see it as a civil rights issue, with gays fighting familiar battles…

“We were denied the right to marry a person of another race,” says Alice A. Huffman, president of the California chapter of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. “Any time government intervenes and tells you what you can or can’t do, it’s a denial of your rights.”

The California NAACP is trying to mobilize voters against the gay marriage ban, but at a meeting this past week showed, it’s not an easy sell. …

We like this comment by “usnae2aw”:

When are we going to treat people as people and stop making these sweeping statements that are supposed to represent the opinions of entire groups of people.Trust me all brothas don”t think the same. My brother likes the Steelers and I like the Cowboys. I don”t care what people do in their bedrooms, as long as I don”t come home and catch them doing it mine. In the future white people stop pretending you know what African-Americans think just because you like tiger woods or won some money on michael jordan and the bulls its insulting.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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