[lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way

[Dwayne Monroe]

Chris wrote to Dennis Claxton (PS. I think you just don't want to
admit that black people are, as a general rule, more culturally
conservative than white people. :)

..........

I recommend shag's post from several days ago:

<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20081110/019173.html>

She presents several works which investigate the origins, styles and
current forms of African American social conservatism.   As usual,
this quite solid information had little impact upon the debate which
merrily rolled along  without it (ideally, we'd all go silent on this
topic, do a bit of reading, then return to the argument better
equipped to do more than circle the same bleached, memetic bones).

I don't think dueling anecdotes, clashing assumptions and appeals to
black listmembers to explain things are helpful.

.d.