More Electoral Math...And Supposition

I did some math and it turns out that if African Americans had remained reduced in personhood, much like seven in ten of them voted to do to us figgers (that’d be socially- and personally-demeaned gay folks like me), even 3/5 of a vote per 3/5ths-person would still have passed Proposition 8.

However, did you see what I did there? Back when Blacks were only considered 3/5 of a person, they didn’t yet have a vote. The 3/5 of a person applied to the U.S. Census of the time, where each Black counted at 3/5 of a person within a household owned by a white person.

So since it wouldn’t matter, insofar as Prop 8 went, should I now start some kind of proceeding—within a personal, selfish myopia—to restore an African American’s personhood to count only as 3/5 of a person?

Turnabout being fair play and all, I mean, why shouldn’t I start something like this? Those 7 out of 10 African American voters just went ahead and did the same thing to me.

Is forty-one years so long that African Americans (and the rest of us) have forgotten that their own choices in marriage were restricted by law? That the arguments were close to there very same arguments these so-called loving Christian folks are making?

Pastor Shirley Caesar-Williams of the Mount Calvary Word of Faith Church in Raleigh:

“Too long we’ve been at the bottom of the totem pole, but he has vindicated us, hallelujah,” she cried. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t have nothing to put my head down for, praise God. Because when I look toward Washington, D.C., we got a new family coming in. We got a new family coming in. And you know what? They look like us. Amen, amen. They look like us.”

Well, Pastor, you seem awfully contented to have that totem pole still in place. And this is exactly my point: you want that totem pole in place because you’ve forgotten how to measure your own worth independent of that totem pole.

And the funny thing about totem poles is that someone has to be at the bottom.

And that, dear readers, is the real reason behind 7 in 10 African American voters choosing in favor of Prop 8.

Don’t put your head donw, Rev. Caesar-Williams, because you might see us there where you helped put us.

You fucking sold us out so you could feel better about yourselves.

Praise 40% Jesus.