Lol, I stand corrected. You found one issue in almost 4 years of Presidency that the NAACP stood up to the POTUS about. I will point out though that this was an offspin group of the NAACP and not the NAACP itself. It was also in concert with other groups and they didn't lead on the issue. However, I will concede the point to you.
You accept past polls and reject recent polls because the recent polls just don't make sense. That sounds like confirmation bias.
No, you meant accept past poll
S and reject a recent poll (no s as in singular). When one belief has many polls backing it and the other has one backing it, which is to be trusted? I'd say the one with the most data to back it.
The NAACP is about black-specific interests like hate crimes, housing discrimination, etc. If you were to argue that SSM is irrelevant to them, then I can see the validity in that argument. However, your argument that the NAACP isn't representing blacks because it supports SSM is illogical since its representation of blacks doesn't really have anything to do with SSM and since blacks aren't unanimously against SSM.
It isn't representing blacks because the majority of blacks don't believe in what they are saying. Yes, majority. That's what the NAACP should be representing, the majority of blacks. The NAACP represents black people as a group, not as individuals. What else is their role if they don't do that?
Really? Because, a few sentences ago, you said, "Blacks, as a whole, do not approve of homosexuality" (which is inaccurate, btw). That said, many groups, including blacks, are somewhat monolithic on certain issues. For blacks, gay marriage is not one of them (even with your "70%" stat).
My statement was "homosexuality as a whole". By as a whole, I meant the issue of homosexuality. Not the sub-issues like gay marriage, adoption of children, etc. I didn't mean black people as a whole don't approve of homosexuality.
70% is a pretty strong stat bro. Again, you have
1 poll backing your claims. I have many.
A poll showing 53% of any group doesn't resemble anything monolithic so I don't know how you got from point A to point B.
mon·o·lith·ic/ˌmänəˈliTHik/Adjective: 1.Formed of a single large block of stone.
2.(of a building) Very large and characterless.
Polling black people makes them large and characterless, does it not? If you said a poll of single black people, 18-30, living in New York, then that would not be monolithic. A poll of all black people seems large and characterless to me. No?
Anyway, your criticism of the NAACP is based two big false premises: that the NAACP cannot represent black interests while supporting SSM and that people can't change their minds quickly.
My entire point is that SSM isn't a black interest. Black people have shown through many polls that a majority of them don't approve of homosexuality. Therefore they aren't representing black interests. In addition, I don't believe black people are so shallow that they would change their opinion of gay marriage overnight just because one guy, who happens to be black, said he supports it. Like I said, I'd love to see who they polled to get that 53%.