July 3, 2009
Earl Ofari Hutchinson to be Thrown Under the Obamabot Bus in 3… 2… 1…
We didn’t write it — he did — and for the L.A. Watts Times, no less. You got a problem with it, tell him:
Towering Obstacles to Overcome
Blacks’ Gay Marriage BiasA June Los Angeles Times poll on voter attitudes toward gay marriage found two things, one surprising, the other not. It was no surprise that the majority of blacks still condemn gay marriage. The surprise is that the gap between blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians on gay marriage is wider than ever.
There was the no-holds-barred campaign by gay groups to defeat Proposition 8, the millions shelled out on the campaign, mountains of literature churned out to sell the gay marriage fight as a civil rights fight, impassioned pleas from civil rights leaders, and a pitch from President Barack Obama to support gay marriage. All of that meant nothing. The lines in the gay marriage war had not softened but hardened among blacks.
The Times poll dealt solely with voter attitudes on the issue in Los Angeles. But every poll since the first poll in Jet magazine in 1994 that measured black attitudes toward gays has consistently found that a sizable number of blacks are suspicious and scornful not just of gay marriage, but of gays.
It’s no puzzle why. The issue of gay marriage still pricks the social conservatism of many blacks, and their exaggerated notion of manhood. From cradle to grave, many black men have believed and accepted the gender propaganda that real men talk and act tough, shed no tears, and never show their emotions.
When black men broke the prescribed male code of conduct and showed their feelings, they were harangued as weaklings, and their manhood instantly questioned.
They also believed the racial propaganda that manhood was reserved exclusively for white men. In a vain attempt to recapture their denied masculinity, many black men mirror America’s traditional fear and hatred of homosexuality as a dire threat to their manhood.
Many blacks, in an attempt to distance themselves from gays and avoid confronting their own fears and biases, dismiss homosexuality as a perverse contrivance of white males that reflected the decadence of white America. While many Americans made gays their gender bogeymen, many blacks made gay men their bogeymen and waged open warfare against them. …
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Filed Under: Civil Rights, Homophobia, Marriage, Race/Ethnic Issues
