Well, it's one of the most cynical things I've ever heard of or ever seen spelled out in this way. The idea that these people are just pawns that can be played with, the black people who oppose gay marriage, and the black people who support gay marriage, just can be moved around like pieces on a chessboard, it's scary.
Julian Bond criticizes the tactics of the National Organization for Marriage as manipulative and dehumanizing towards African-Americans.
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Well, I think it is. I mean any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.
I don't think so. I think this -- and African-American communities like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting.
Full equality, it means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys.
When the president says he's for something, it doesn't mean it is going to happen. It just means we now know what he feels and how he thinks about it.
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