Prop 8 and African-Americans

Demographic FACTS:

California's population is:
59.8% White American,
12.3% Asian American,
6.2% Black or African American,
0.7% American Indian,
3.3% mixed, and 17.3% of some other race.
35.9% are Hispanic or Latino (of any race).

We keep hearing in the media how 70% of black voters voted for Prop 8, but we never hear that they are only 6.2% of the population. Please explain to me how 6.2% can pass any piece of legislation without the remaining 93.8%?

The real reason this keeps coming up is because the media keeps alluding to this myth that "Black People" solely elected Obama and that African-Americans have this enormous political power that can decide any election or vote.

Please learn about this thing called math!

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That being said...should the 70% of 6.2% of African Americans be ignored. NO!
Massive amounts of outreach should be done. Gay activists need to get in those black churches and talk to people. This probably would have been done had they not gotten Patrick Guerriero (former exec director of Log Cabin Republicans - because we know how successful that group has been - ugh!) to lead the fight against Prop 8.

Like all things, the fight is not over. We have to continue to support the President-elect, and fight Prop 8.