http://510report.org/2008/11/0.....or-prop-8/

So it is not just one group that voted yes on 8. I think that attacking individuals, religious groups and ethnic groups is backfiring on us who want to have marriage.

We need cooler heads or we might face more of a back lash.

this is the attitude that led some Black people to vote for prop 8
and some non-Black gays to *not* vote for obama.
we need to tart talking for real and showing respect & LOVE.

w*yne, you yourself have been “targeting” Black people all year on the WOW report blog.
your inane, childish attacks against president elect obama, michelle obama, rev. wright, rev. donnie mcclurkin and now, the california Black “community at large, have been so disrespectful, so dishonest & so counter-productive.
if you haven’t “read about” any “reports” regarding “targeting Blacks”…
bleah.
i can’t keep up the sarcastic tone…
you & gays like you suck
and *are* the problem.
frame the issue correctly & respectfully and the people will fall in line.
you need to seperate church from state first.
your own entitlement and sulky, lapsed-christian/judgmental/
culturally-tone-deaf attitude makes you value the wrong things, like calling equal civil unions “marriage”.
you guys are too proud to go in thru the back door and you want christians and african americans to kiss your ass.
you foolishly counted on hillary (!) to make your fantasy happen.
snap out of it!
there is a new sheriff in town.
you don’t have to sit down, but you do need to quit acting ugly and disrespectful.
we are on the right track with obama’s coming administration.
we all need to try to be like him and fight hate with love.
i’m surprised that rupaul isn’t talking about gay marriage.
i think he could make a difference in shaping gay attitudes toward the more traditional african american communities, and vice-versa.
– or is this only about gay rights – not trans??
i’m asking!

quit being fake, you bitches!
how dare you try to tell Us to respect or relate to you
after the way the “white” gay community has marginilized and disrespected Black people, transpeople, “poor” people and even lesbians.
you trash need to check yourselves.
there’s a new sheriff in town and you need to be respectful & grateful.
trust, you headless chickenheads -this prop 8 mess will not stand, but gays need to change their one-issue mania and get with the program
ps
some Black people may fear & loathe gay sexuality, but plenty of you (we) gays need to change our attitude and look in the mirror.
exactly how have you handled yourself with Black people??
exactly!
please don’t be fake; the world is watching.
ps
gays like that “wayne” from WOW report are sick, prideful, entitled, disrespectful racists.
do you think he voted for obama???
he has no right to criticize Black people for not rushing to support his badly framed cause.
gosh!

Boom. My point exactly.

Out in Greenwich Village with 3 friends on last Saturday night. Got asked, very aggressively by 2 white men why “you people” were so homophobic and religious.
I said I wasn’t, my friends weren’t, our families weren’t. They said we were lying. We said we were gay. Again, they said we were lying. WHAT?
Since 3 of us are Jewish and 1 is Muslim, we said black people aren’t as homogeneous as they seem to think. Just like gay folks.

Here we are, oppressed groups, fighting over crumbs instead of going for the main recipe.

It has been refuted plenty of times + — newsflash — “major” news networks can fuck up, too. If you honestly think that a random exit poll sampling can speak for the entire black voting population of the huge state of Cali., then perhaps it is your grasp of the facts that is way the hell off.

And, btw, this is not the only report of people hearing the N-word used by gays following the passage of Prop 8.

If you read the DailyKos post I linked to the other day, you’d know that the author also commented on several occurences from members of that very site. Troll a few other gay blogs (including this one) + it’s easy to see that there is a lot of hostility toward blacks to be found. Strange, my ass.

If blacks have to be “honest” about homophobia within our community, gays also have to be honest about the occurence of racism in ours.

Yes, I used “ours” twice, being that I belong to both communities.

Strange, indeed.

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You are joking right, CNN and EVERY OTHER MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATION uses those same numbers 70% of Blacks in California DID vote YES on Prop 8. NOT A SINGLE NEWS ORGANIZATION HAS REPUTED OR RETRACTED ANY OF THEIR POLLING DATA, AND THEY STAND BY THEIR REPORTING. Now we are supposed to compare CNN and EVERY OTHER MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATION with that of one student saying he was called the “N” word. Please, Your grip of the facts, is more than a bit off.

It’s not interesting to people who don’t have a black and white (no pun) view of ethics. If you hit me, and I hit you back, I am not wrong. It’s not the hitting that’s wrong, it’s the lack of due cause. In this case the marginalization by one side is unjustified, period. That said, this method is not really effective when used toward “groups” instead of individuals.

is this ” wayne” from WOW report??
what a sick phony you are!

haha

Point taken.

Actually, the headline is factual. Prop 8 “protesters” targeted blacks. The headline didn’t state that the entire protest targeted blacks; but some of its protesters did.

However, many of the same folk here decrying hatred being shown to blacks have no problem whatsoever showering hatred on anyone who’s religious.

That too is ugly and unproductive.

Also — Am I the only one that finds it a little off-setting that the guy in the story calls people “clones” at the same time he’s lamenting being called names himself?

“Not even a shred or journalistic integrity around here is there. A possible utterance of the “N” word, and now Gay Protests are targeting Blacks? That’s ridiculous! I wonder how many times gay men have been called a faggot by a bigoted hetero Black guy? Should all those homophobic experiences be posted on Queerty?”

Psssh. So, it’s OK to piggy-back off of CNN’s dubious claim that 70% of blacks voted for Prop 8, but this topic is off-limits, somehow? Not.

“Don’t buy into this racist shit that Queerty and Gant are trying to stir up. It doesn’t exist.
It is his attempt to divide our community.”

What a crock, indeed.

Racism is very much alive in the gay community + turning a blind eye to it is just stupid. Racism is in every community, to some extent. Be honest about it.

“If gays start using the N word again (as seems to be the case) expect the rest of California to follow. Social taboo? Nope! Trendy if the gays are saying it.

And ultimately, I can’t help but think that the blacks did it to themselves by stabbing one of their life long allies in the back.”

That is a crock of shit. Noone should be given a pass to use that word because of the voting actions of some black persons, regardless of how upset you are over the results.

If anyone is throwing around the ‘N’ word, then they need to STOP!

It won’t do any good.

HATE BREEDS HATE, end of story. We need to stick to love, pride, and focus on demanding rights.

I will be leving Queerty now. If anyone wants to join me I’ll be with Andy at Towelroad.

http://www.towleroad.com/

Japhry while you may be cute….you suck man.

Does this mean that those Black gay men and women are booted out of the community now!

The one time that everyone needs to get together to make change and a few stupid/racist people push people away.

You are an asshat. The “blacks” didn’t stab anyone in the back. Some blacks voted for prop 8, and so did a mountain of Mormons, a shitload of old white people, most rednecks, and even a couple of self-loathing, spineless gay lunatics (I talked to a couple of them).