And I’m sorry to see some comments that to me seem racist. I hope we can learn to live together better.

“How about shocking us once in a while then? If you’re going to play South Parks ‘Token’, then expect to be mocked as ‘race-card Withers’. Instead of trying to be the iconoclast focusing on race, how about remembering why the f*ck you’re on here. Its not to show up Sharpton.”

I know why I’m here. As for your Sharpton quip and the race card charge, both are silly and not connected to anything I’ve written.

James

You diligently cite the efforts of marriage advocates to bring conscientious black citizens into the tent and then close by saying that black homophobia hasnt decreased, in contradiction to the rising 25 point fruition by the efforts of the advocates.

To add, you purport that DC, a city of around 55% blacks, is in favor of marriage through some magical association that a 55% demographic must signal that they are the dynamic cause of this favorable tenor, despite the fact that DC has a massive transient ghetto, one third of the city as a whole is functionally illiterate, the crime rate is three times the national average, and to top it off, 70% of the hate crimes in DC are based on perceived sexual orientation.

So I’m either to conclude that your favorable constituency is the *many affluent blacks* in the Metro area, or that the ones engaging in basic street survival are somehow making time to get to the electoral polls on the issue of gay marriage, and the remaining mixed white and hispanic population are too busy watching cable to summon any mass of electoral clout that would explain this odd political demographic phenomenon.

After sub-titling the article with “a small majority of blacks” (<= 1%), you close by using the above to fatuously support a snide retort on the premise that people outraged at the black constituency’s collective treachery at the polls is somehow unfounded, rather than scrap all the bullshit weak statistical sophistry and simply blog on the shining black minority that did indeed vote in our favor.

No, you refute poll data as a premise, cite it, and then use the weakest possible statistics and loosest associations for a juvenile snipe at those betrayed for a simple race play.

You got my attention, to include the site, when you covered Gerren Gaynor’s insane rant at Morehouse. Goddammit, you’re smarter than this. You do not need to be making left-handed justifications, apologies or callow sneers at everyone else based on race just because your black.

“Those of you who got off on the racial angle after the Prop 8 vote and left racial drive-by messes here (my personal fav are those who described how they marched next to MLK and now feel sooooooo betrayed) have been silent on all of this. Too old to be shocked by that.”

How about shocking us once in a while then? If you’re going to play South Parks “Token”, then expect to be mocked as “race-card Withers”. Instead of trying to be the iconoclast focusing on race, how about remembering why the f*ck you’re on here. Its not to show up Sharpton.

http://regbarc.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/19/622460-study-finds-one-third-in-washington-dc-illiterate

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/table13washdc.htm

Fair point. I’ll change it later.

Sincerely,

James

The headline should have read, “A small plurality of black New Yorkers support gay marriage.”