(my first reply wound up in the parent, for some reason. Reposting here...)
I didn't know you were black (yay Internet!). So yeah, "head in the sand" definitely doesn't apply. My apologies for the amusingly off-target insult.
I'd still argue that the tone of your post Is Not Helpful. When you start out by trying to prove that the minority vote didn't lose us Prop 8, and imply that to believe otherwise is racist, that tends to undermine your followup argument: we really need to reach out to POC in order to reach marriage equality!
Anyway, I think we agree on what's needed to achieve what we both want. I do think, however, that you framed your point in a contradictory and inflammatory way that can have a chilling effect on that outreach.
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I didn't know you were black (yay Internet!). So yeah, "head in the sand" definitely doesn't apply. My apologies for the amusingly off-target insult.
I'd still argue that the tone of your post Is Not Helpful. When you start out by trying to prove that the minority vote didn't lose us Prop 8, and imply that to believe otherwise is racist, that tends to undermine your followup argument: we really need to reach out to POC in order to reach marriage equality!
Anyway, I think we agree on what's needed to achieve what we both want. I do think, however, that you framed your point in a contradictory and inflammatory way that can have a chilling effect on that outreach.