In the Moment

karnythia:

talking-fiction:

karnythia:

talking-fiction:

wilwheaton:

(via Condescending Wonka)

I can’t for the life of me understand why any minority, knowing how often minorities are discriminated against, would oppose same-sex marriage.

I can’t for the life of me figure out how people keep pretending there are no Black LGBT folks while rushing to blame black people for legislation that they didn’t fund, write, or even all vote for in the first place. Not to mention if we’re going to talk about discrimination? Let’s talk about racism in LGBT commmunities. Ooh wait, no one wants to do that hunh?

No one is pretending there aren’t any black people in the LGBT community. I don’t think anyone is blaming black people for what happened in North Carolina either. Compared to other minorities however, the percentage of people that oppose same-sex marriage is much higher for blacks. 49% to be exact, while only 37% are in favor. I’m well aware of the racism in the LGBT community. There is racism everywhere, just like there is homophobia. No group of people will ever be completely free of either, but I do agree it needs to be discussed more openly.

Did you read the whole article you just linked? Like all the words? Because according to it 43% of white people are opposed. Do the math on the American population. Black people make up approximately 13%. White people? More than 70%. So, in real numbers that means that even if every black person everywhere voted in support of same sex marriage they still wouldn’t override white votes against it. And that assumes that all of the black people in the Pew study can vote (see stats for incarceration in black communities and remember that felons can’t vote), and completely ignores the fact that America consists of more than black & white people. People are definitely blaming (as happened in California courtesy of Dan Savage & some bad reporting) black people for Amendment One passing. We make a convenient scapegoat so no one has to talk about how much the Mormon church is spending, or what white conservatives are doing when they go to the polls. And that’s before we get into the lack of outreach to black churches by same sex marriage advocates. Guess who is reaching out to black churches? Same sex marriage opponents.

Bolded for emphasis

talking-fiction:

karnythia:

talking-fiction:

wilwheaton:

(via Condescending Wonka)

I can’t for the life of me understand why any minority, knowing how often minorities are discriminated against, would oppose same-sex marriage.

I can’t for the life of me figure out how people keep pretending there are no Black LGBT folks while rushing to blame black people for legislation that they didn’t fund, write, or even all vote for in the first place. Not to mention if we’re going to talk about discrimination? Let’s talk about racism in LGBT commmunities. Ooh wait, no one wants to do that hunh?

No one is pretending there aren’t any black people in the LGBT community. I don’t think anyone is blaming black people for what happened in North Carolina either. Compared to other minorities however, the percentage of people that oppose same-sex marriage is much higher for blacks. 49% to be exact, while only 37% are in favor. I’m well aware of the racism in the LGBT community. There is racism everywhere, just like there is homophobia. No group of people will ever be completely free of either, but I do agree it needs to be discussed more openly.

Did you read the whole article you just linked? Like all the words? Because according to it 43% of white people are opposed. Do the math on the American population. Black people make up approximately 13%. White people? More than 70%. So, in real numbers that means that even if every black person everywhere voted in support of same sex marriage they still wouldn’t override white votes against it. And that assumes that all of the black people in the Pew study can vote (see stats for incarceration in black communities and remember that felons can’t vote), and completely ignores the fact that America consists of more than black & white people. People are definitely blaming (as happened in California courtesy of Dan Savage & some bad reporting) black people for Amendment One passing. We make a convenient scapegoat so no one has to talk about how much the Mormon church is spending, or what white conservatives are doing when they go to the polls. And that’s before we get into the lack of outreach to black churches by same sex marriage advocates. Guess who is reaching out to black churches? Same sex marriage opponents.