Facts Belie the Scapegoating of Black People for Proposition 8

By GottaLaff

The DKos post was very long and involved, so I will post the basic-est of basic snippets, and suggest you read the rest of the wonderfully thorough piece for yourself:

• Factually Unsupported Myth #1: CNN’s 10% Black exit poll sample accurately reflects the actual distribution of voters on Proposition 8.
• Factually Unsupported Myth #2: There were enough Black people in California to have created, all by themselves, the;"510,000 margin (as of tonight) of passage for Proposition 8.
• Factually Unsupported Myth #3: All Black people in California are old enough to vote.
• Factually Unsupported Myth #4: All adult Black people in California are eligible to vote.
• Factually Unsupported Myth #5: Virtually every adult, non-disqualified Black person was registered to vote on Election Day.
• Factually Unsupported Myth #6: There Were Enough "Black Votes" to be the "Deciding Factor" for Proposition 8.
• Utterly Supported Fact #1: There Were So Many More White, Latino and Asian Votes in Favor of Proposition 8 That Blaming Black Folks is Both Bad Math and Racist Scapegoating of the Highest Order
  

  Non-Black Votes in Favor of Proposition 8:

  White Men: 51% of 31% of 10,325,615 votes: 1,632,480 Yes
  White Women: 47% of 32% of 10,325,615 votes: 1,552,972 Yes
  Latino Men: 54% of 8% of 10,325,615 votes: 446,067 Yes
  Latino Women: 52% of 11% of 10,325,615 votes: 592,170 Yes
  Asian/Native: 51% of 9% of 10,325,615 votes: 473,946 Yes

  Total: 4,697,635 (9.3 times the maximum TOTAL number of Black votes in California.)

• Proposition 8 would have still passed by 81,565 votes, if Black voters had done no more than reflect the rest of the state's will on the matter.