My post on a Yahoo! news story "Many blacks shrug off Obama's new view on gays"

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67. The article's angle of approach leaves me a little uneasy

I appreciate the writer is definitely making an effort to tip toe through the issue - talking about homophobia in the socially conservative portions of the black community without trying to lay disproportionate responsibility on the black community for anti-gay laws. I'm not sure he succeeded, but the effort was there.

One thing I'd like to see more emphasized is that the President's endorsement carries more weight and power within that community than the largely white gay rights movement could ever hope for. That's why, despite what lacked in the President's statement, it remains a powerful advance for all of us.

In the wake of Prop 8, a lot of efforts have been made to divide the African-American and LBGT communities (to great sorrow and pain of LGBTers of color). I feel President Obama's endorsement is a big step in making those efforts fail.