Further insight into Prop 8

This doesn't change my position about the issue by any means, but it is an interesting perspective I had never even considered. Basically, a black lesbian argues that for most blacks, gay and straight, the marriage issue is largely a white issue; that as a black, one is faced with inequality on so many more urgent fronts that marriage simply seems borderline irrelevant. Rich white gays don't see that because marriage is the only freedom they are being denied.

I don't buy it: just because there are other problems to address regarding racism is no reason to vote to ban gay marriage. By which I mean to take away basic human rights. Gay marriage should be a non-issue by now, and if only we could just accept it and let it go, then activists could direct their attentions toward the other socioeconomic inequalities that plague the state and nation. Ugh. But still, it's interesting.