Statistics: Black people had nothing to do with Calif. Prop 8's passage.

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Well: very, very little to do with it.

Fox News and other media outlets have been harping on the fact that 70 percent of black voters voted in favor of California's Prop 8 (which bans gay marriage).

This stat is used to claim that black people, therefore, are responsible for Prop 8's passage.

In CA on November 4, black people comprised less than 7 percent of voters because black people make up less than seven percent of the CA population. Also, roughly half of the people in the US vote.

So maybe 70 percent of 5 percent of a certain demographic of voters were pro-8.

And this meager percentage was responsible for Proposition Bigot's passage?

Why was something so moronic as the above allowed on the air (teevee news) and in newspapers?

I can understand Fox News running with this: Their audience hates facts like they hate canker sores. And, likely, gays and blacks just as much.

But supposedly legit media broadcasting this guano?

...Did there have to be "another side" to the story so people wouldn't think nor care as much about the evil meddling the Mormon Church perpetrated in CA?

I want to hear the excuses for the media running with this story so I can die a bit more inside.

...And I suggest everyone Google "Mormon marriage." It's far scarier than gay marriage.
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