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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/us/politics/2...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/us/24jews.htm...

I tried to find the Youtube clip, but couldn't.

The ten white GLBT people interviewed did not say that it was an issue of race. Rather, it was, in their opinion, an issue of religion. (not much of a survey, but it was what the reporter came up with)

Professor Eddie Glaude, a Black professor of religion and African american studies at Princeton is quoted saying “By allowing conservative Christians to largely claim the discussion about sexuality, events such as the passage of Prop. 8 ensue.”

I think that the meme of gays blaming blacks for prop 8 is a setup, started by evangelicals/christian conservatives to polarize blacks and whites, gay and non gay. It's a Rovian move, and I really wouldn't put it past them. I don't know if anyone has researched the progression of the “Blacks passed prop 8″ story, but my hunch is it didn't start with Gay whites. I think it is more convoluted and sinister than that. Conservative christians are claiming the conversation. The agenda to take over the moral reins of this country is in play. I think Obama's being played. I think the american people are being played.

Once in play, this meme of gay vs black is powerful and dangerous. Who is profiting from it? That's my question.

RIP Eartha Kitt

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Since the election, there's been a tremendous focus on the fact that 70 percent of African Americans voted to ban same-sex marriages in California.

The vote coincided with the overwhelming support among African Americans for a black presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama. In the aftermath, some Proposition 8 supporters are viewing the black vote as proof that same-sex marriage is a moral rather than a civil rights issue, while some Prop. 8 opponents tout it as evidence of one community's particular homophobia.

But demographers say the focus on one race not only disregards the complexity of African American identity but also overlooks the most powerful predictors affecting views on same-sex marriage: religion, age and ideology, such as party affiliation. Prop. 8's racial fallout raises the question of how the groundbreaking multiracial support of a presidential candidate could coincide with the racial scapegoating now following a failed state ballot campaign.

“It's just a shame to see the sort of coalition that came out behind Obama, and then you come back to California and you see white gays say 'black people cost us the election,' ” said David Binder, a white gay San Franciscan and a polling expert who spent the past two years working for the Obama campaign. “It bothers me that people look at the race of the people involved rather than factors that are more explanatory.”

For many black gays and lesbians, the result has been a reminder that even with the stereotype-shattering election of a black president, caricatures of black people continue to flourish.

“African Americans get demonized when it comes to topics of sexuality,” said the Rev. D. Mark Wilson, a black, gay, American Baptist minister who grew up in Oakland and worked on the No on 8 campaign.

The focus on the black vote comes as two social movements came to a climax: the election of a black president and the vote on same-sex marriage in the nation's most populous state. Those two events have unleashed social upheaval that people are still grappling with.

“People aren't responding from a rational analysis,” said Andrea Shorter, a black lesbian and No on 8 spokeswoman. “They're responding from an emotional place.”

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...

I was in college when I first attended a local rendering of “The Homecoming.” It was scary…in those famous silences, I thought people were about to kill each other.

That was one kick-ass individual. Probably hard to live with (his son changed his name and was estranged from him) and had dozens of affairs and a couple of marriages. But I know why he got that Nobel–for his criticism of Bush and the Iraq War. Genius in his writing…

Eartha's performance of Love for Sale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNvGVVqRJEs

Seeing her live was the best $75 I've ever spent – well besides seeing Nina Simone's last few shows.

“C'est ci Bon”

Show 'em how it's done, girl.

And she was the first black supervillainess on this show. Yep, the defending attorney is the late Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy's press secretary.