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Interesting Juxtaposition

On the night America elected the first black President, over two-thirds of blacks voted to deny gays equal rights.  Will blacks get a free pass on their homophobia?  After all, no other racial or ethnic group opposed equal rights for gays.  Blacks are alone in their dedication to discrimination.  How is that not big news?UPDATE: Are blacks fiscally liberal and socially conservative?  According to Ilya Somin: Surveys have long shown that blacks are, on average, more socially conservative than whites, and more likely to be homophobic. They rarely prioritize these issues over racial and economic ones in their voting decisions (thus the pattern of overwhelming black support for the Democrats). But when offered the chance to vote on "social issues" as a separate category, their latent social conservatism comes out...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 05, 2008 (boomark / email).