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

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Nov 17 12:51:00 PST 2008


Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
> At 05:22 AM 11/17/2008, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> >PS. I think you just don't want to admit that black people are, as a
> >general rule, more culturally conservative than white people. :)
>
> Nah. I just don't want to turn my horseshit detector off.

I can't think of any statement of the form, "black people are, as a general rule . . ." that isn't either serious nonsense or trivial nonsense. Even the proposition that "black people are, as a eneral rule, are darker complected than whites," would be misleading. Such statements simply don't have any predictive value, so why make them?

Carrol



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list