The gay community has a problem with racism. More of them voted for John Kerry than Barack Obama.
Once prop 8 failed the first thing they did was blame black people. Blacks are a small minority in California and if 100% of blacks voted yes on 8, prop 8 would not have passed if the white community or the majority of the latino community voted no on prop 8.
The response of the gay community by BLAMING BLACKS is classic racism. Just like Hitler blaming the jews for all the problems in Germany before WWII.
One of the first issues Bill Clinton dealt with when he became president in 1992 was "gays in the military" AND he now views that as one of his biggest mistakes. That was one of the reasons he lost control of Congress in 1994.
The Mormon Church is the one that spent millions of dollars to pass prop 8.........YET the first response of the gay community was to blame blacks and that was disturbing.
During the recent protests in California, gays have been attacking blacks with racist language blaming them for the failure of Prop 8.
I received this response from a poster on another website........
The percentages of blacks voting for the Prop was high. Frankly, I don't believe those number since the sample size was so small (~300 to the ~1500 of whites polled). I could remember on election night how I was freaking out that McCain was leading in a particular state than a large number of votes would be counted for Obama. If those numbers are accurate they don't automatically mean that black communities are more homophobic! Its actually quite sad how quickly people have latched on to this with glee.
However, the gay community didn't bother campaigning in the African American communities, something that the pro-prop 8 people did. In fact I didn't hear about the Prop 8 until election night! There is an articles out about how unorganized the gay community was in campaigning for this. They didn't bother with minority communities till the final week when they heard the intense effort of the Mormon church. Some minority gay individuals have complained that the focus of the commercial against the Prop was very geared toward white gays. Also During the recent protests there have been a lot of racism towards anyone black, even black gays. Some have been called the N word and told to get out. So much for unity.