Another response to more vitriol from Jasmyne Cannick, formerly of L.A. Times

In response to this drivel from everyone's favorite self-hating Black lesbian:

I don't even know where to begin. There is so much wrong with your view Miss Panther, so I'll do my best to show you exactly what, but it's safe to say that your conclusions are a chaotic mess at best. Here goes:

'... the fact remains that two people getting married, same-sex or not, has no financial impact whatsoever on the rest of us. None. We may not like it, but at the end of the day, gay marriage doesn’t take food from anyone’s mouth, clothes off of anyone’s back, or a roof from over someone’s head. But judging from the way we acted, you would have thought that it did.'

Oh Jasmyne, you poor dear. Are you ever right about *anything*? Ever? Not only would overturning Prop 8 invite bright, talented gay people to California in droves, but gay marriage has already produced this result in Massachusetts. Furthermore, there is an economic backlash (and rightly so) against those who decided that in a time of economic crisis, their money was best spent on stripping a minority class of its rights.

'At the end of the day, it was a poorly run campaign predicated on the premise that because we’re Black (in my case Black and gay) and benefited from the Civil Rights Movement, that by osmosis we’d oppose the measure'

In fact it was a poorly run campaign, but not because it didn't do enough to reach out to Black people. This is the second time you've made this critique and the second time you have not provided examples of what it could have done better. We're only talking about a vote here - No on Prop 8 didn't guilt the Black community into helping out and certainly didn't ask for its hard-earned money. I also didn't see a pro-African American measure on the ballot for No on 8 to support. Did you? So what did you want exactly? Did you want a gay rights organization to throw an African-American pride parade or something?

Maybe they shouldn't have stopped there. Maybe they should have done the same for Mexicans, Italians, the disabled, children... you get the idea. Your point here, once again, is moot. And once again I will remind you of a time when Blacks and whites could not intermarry. So yeah, I think a lot of gay people safely, but clearly incorrectly assumed a fellow marginalized community would come to its aid.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Black religious leaders seem to have forgotten Dr. King's words in order to focus on Deuteronomy instead. You can't blame No on 8 for that, now can you? It's not their job to remind you, just like your lesbian self claimed it wasn't your job to spend a minute or two talking to people about Prop 8 when you were campaigning for Socialist-In-Chief Obama who so far has done NOTHING for Blacks. Voting No on 8 was just the right thing for the community to do and now you blame the 'gay agenda' for distracting Black Congresspeople when it's more likely said Congresspeople are being motivated by their own guilt in not having done the right thing in the first place.

Indeed the current economic crisis has NOTHING to do with race or equal opportunity so once again your confrontational attitude towards those who are either not black or pandering to the Black community is frightening race-baiting and does nothing to further your causes. Do you REALLY think that Blacks are 'at the bottom of the food chain in California' exclusively or completely? Do you REALLY think it's because they're Black? Have you looked around at all? You don't see an near-exponential increase in the number of poor people of other races - especially whites? Are you living under a ROCK? It's about time you realize that we're all in this together.

I sincerely hope that nobody shares your distorted, overly militant views after reading your articles simply because you write like a self-proclaimed 'expert' on race relations and end your paragraphs with the word 'message.' Word.