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Told you. Told you. Told you. At the end of October when writing about a Proposition 8 poll, I said if California voters didn’t support same sex marriage racial heck would break loose.

“…if gay marriage in California is struck down then this site and every other gay political site will be overwhelmed with ‘conversations’ on black homophobia.”

Overwhelmed we were. Some of the comments were perceptive. Others were rants. A few were two steps from loopy town. My personal favs were the commentator who has decided he/she is never going to vote again in the future. Or the many writers who noted how they marched back in the day for civil rights and now regret that choice.

Whatever.

In all of yesterday’s talk, no one mentioned the state’s governor’s lukewarm support of the anti-Prop 8 groups or the Mormon Church handing out bags of money to folk against sex marriage. The defeat of Prop 8 wasn’t put at the feet of Schwarzenegger or the Mormons. Yesterday’s talk was based on this phrase: blame the coloreds.

And before there are any calls for my head, let’s state the obvious: the majority of black and Latino voters in California gave their votes to Barack Obama and said no to same-sex marriage. As I have said before there is a breach in the Democratic Party tent: gays and lesbians on one side, socially conservative blacks and Latinos on the other. President-elect Obama has not been very adept at bridging that gulf .

Is there anyone out there who can? Doubt it, but chasms of intense disagreement are never modified with melodramatic missives and sweeping generalizations. You want to talk about black homophobia? Let’s go at it, but let’s also point out that it is part of the same thinking that made marriage rights face defeats in Arizona and Florida.

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