While African-Americans achieved a victory that many thought they would never see in their life time, the gay community took a major blow. A proposition banning gay marriage passed in California, Arizona and Florida this past election with California's ban receiving the most attention after all of the celebrity financing and endorsements of a no vote. With all of that star power behind defeating the proposition, how in the world could it possibly succeed? What group of people really felt that they needed to stick it to the gay community? Wait, what? African-Americans?

That's right, oddly enough. The Telegraph reported that, "Around 70 per cent of the African-American voters who overwhelmingly backed Mr Obama also approved Proposition 8, helping pass the controversial ballot measure..." A group of people that has an unfortunate history of oppression in American history finally jumped the proverbial presidential hurdle only to break the legs of their gay brethren.

Obviously the African-American turnout is not the only reason proposition 8 passed. Those against the proposition blamed religious conservatives for financing the proposition's campaign, but that was to be expected. The religious conservative community has been unjustifiably afraid of the gay community ever since Adam looked down at his fig leaf and winked at God.

All hope is not lost, however. African-Americans had been held back by different laws and questionable court decisions for decades, so surely history will repeat itself and the gay community will achieve success in the realm of Civil Rights. But this slap to the face by one previously oppressed community to a currently oppressed community raises the question: What group of people will the gay community hate on in fifty years? Perhaps the fashionably-impaired baby community with their tawdry, poop-stained shorts.