Keith Olberman Takes Straights to Task Over Gay Marriage Vote
I have never understood why the African-American community joined forces with the religious right to campaign for intolerance and discrimination in our country. It seems to me the height of hypocrisy. Our country began with the creed that all men were created equal. Then (at least in theory) all women too (except for the equal pay thing). Then African-Americans were given legal status as full human beings, rather than property. Previously they had been counted as a fraction of a person. Then African-Americans were given the right to vote, and now see the dream of their inspirational leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., realized in the election of Barack Obama. But that’s the end of the dream for black people, apparently. All men (and women) (of any color) are created equal, but not the gays. It is the African-American (and Latino) turnout in California that is cited as the cause of the passage of the anti-gay marriage proposal, Proposition 8. And so here’s must-see: Keith Olbmerman’s reaction to the vote on Proposition 8 in California, where he takes heterosexual America, and the African-American community in particular, to task for their vote:
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November 15th, 2008 at 12:11 am
It’s disappointing to see that you’re perpetuating the divisive notion that African Americans and Latinos single-handedly passed prop 8. This article can probably make the argument better than I can.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/prop-8-myths.html
Scapegoating should not be part of our movement.