That’s what Af-Am lesbian activist Monica Roberts alleges.
Her charge is based on Savage’s apparent willingness to believe that black voters helped pass California’s antigay Proposition 8 last November. Roberts, you might guess, claims Savage and his “vanilla flavored privileged behind” are wrong about this.
And as you might guess, Roberts’s piece has a long, flaming trail of comment threads.
I don’t think Savage is consciously racist. I have known him to be less-than-PC about racial stuff. (During a Stranger office chat one time about violence at hiphop shows, he flippantly said something to the effect that they should simply stop shooting guns at each other, as if gang violence was as easily discouraged as unprotected sex.)
The bigger issue, to Roberts and to me, is that, yes, there are homophobic blacks AND racist gay whites. It’s tragic, but it’s to be expected.