This post is a reprint from my blog Uncle Fatlips. It's actually titled:

On Tuesday the Advocate magazine (the nation’s largest gay publication) released a startling analysis of the final voting numbers concerning Proposition 8. California blacks were found to have voted 57% in favor of Proposition 8, not 70% as previously believed. The study also concluded that race was not the most significant factor affecting people’s vote for or against marriage equality. Not only that, it revealed that age, religiosity, party identification, and ideology had more of an effect on whether voters backed Prop. 8 than any other factors. For instance, the rate of support for the initiative among African Americans and whites was nearly the same for those who attended church services regularly.

This is big news. And it makes me angry. All this time many African American supporters of No On 8 have been putting themselves on the line including myself— risking all kinds of retaliation in our own communities because were led to believe that an overwhelming black majority had voted in favor of oppression of another minority group who were fighting for their civil rights.

Now we find out that this wasn’t the case—-at all. Nowhere near the case, in fact. While 57% in favor of Prop 8 is still a little over half, that number is a helluva lot different than 70%.