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Blacks vs. gays.

According to the NYT, opponents of the gay marriage ban in California are worried that black people, enthused about Barack Obama, will show up at the polls in unusually high numbers and vote the way people think black people think about homosexuality.

Well, Obama has a lock on California, so, ironically, it will be liberals who perceive an interest in suppressing the black vote.

ADDED: I am expressing no view about the generalization that black people are homophobic. I am only noting the way people of all political stripes will use black people when they find them useful. But I should note that Barack Obama has opined on the reputed homophobia of black people:

Full post as published by Althouse on September 21, 2008 (boomark / email).