| A number of Rod 2.0 and Jasmyne Cannick readers report being subjected to taunts, threats and racist abuse at last night's marriage equality rally in Los Angeles. Geoffrey, a student at UCLA and regular Rod 2.0 reader, joined the massive protest outside the Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Westwood. Geoffrey was called the n-word at least twice. It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple...me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them. Los Angeles resident and Rod 2.0 reader A. Ronald says he and his boyfriend, who are both black, were carrying NO ON PROP 8 signs and still subjected to racial abuse. Three older men accosted my friend and shouted, "Black people did this, I hope you people are happy!" A young lesbian couple with mohawks and Obama buttons joined the shouting and said there were "very disappointed with black people" and "how could we" after the Obama victory. This was stupid for them to single us out because we were carrying those blue NO ON PROP 8 signs! I pointed that out and the one of the older men said it didn't matter because "most black people hated gays" and he was "wrong" to think we had compassion. That was the most insulting thing I had ever heard. I guess he never thought we were gay. |
Even in liberal Broward County because of the black vote the Florida Gay ban amendment got 52% Yes vote.
| Black voters in Broward County provided some of the strongest support for Amendment 2, which added a ban on same-sex marriage to the Florida Constitution. The amendment passed statewide this week, winning 61.9 percent of the vote. Adding an amendment to the Constitution requires a 60 percent "yes" vote. Support in liberal Broward County, which has a large gay and lesbian population was 10 percentage points less than the statewide vote. Amendment 2 got 52 percent "yes" in Broward. A Sun Sentinel analysis of precinct-by-precinct results in Broward found that in precincts where at least half the registered voters are black, the amendment got a 64 percent yes vote. That translates to 49,868 "yes" votes and 29,459 "no" votes. Countywide, as of votes counted Friday afternoon, Amendment 2 had 336,536 "yes" and 309,801 "no" votes. Political scientists and proponents of adding the same-sex marriage ban to the Constitution predicted before Election Day that black voters drawn to the polls in large numbers by Barack Obama’s historic presidential candidacy would be socially conservative and vote for Amendment 2. Of the 55 precincts where at least 70 percent of the registered voters are black, the proposed amendment got at least 60 percent of the vote in all but eight. Of the 688 precincts where black voters are less than 50 percent of the registered voters, 588 of them gave the amendment less than 60 percent support. |
Blacks have resented the gay rights movement doing a hijack of the civil rights movement for the cause of getting married.
I have always seen it as a problem because you can make a strong argument that Gays should have the legal rights of other married couples even though I strongly disagree with the term marriage being expanded to cover anything more than man and woman.
When you invoke imagery of the civil rights movement which is a struggle based on not even being seen as an equal on every measure in a society to wanting to get married as a major reason, it causes resentment. Gays wanting equal marriage rights can stand on its own and it is time for gay activists to stop blaming everyone else by making those points without invoking other movements.
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