The dude who sang, "If we can't make babies, maybe we can make some time" (a great, great line by the way) is anti-gay. I think Andrew is drawing a bizarre line between Prince's homophobia and Prop 8 and black people. In the 80s, Madonna wanted to be black more than Prince. Isn't he a Jehovah's Witness? Doesn't that likely have a lot more to do with his beliefs than being black?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.