Watch Michael Shure’s epic interview with Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the NAACP, about the group’s historic endorsement of same-sex marriage this past weekend:
“The black community has been — unfairly, I think — characterized as being overwhelmingly hostile to this idea of gay rights and gay marriage,” Bond says. “Even though we didn’t time this to fit with President Obama’s statements on gay marriage, his statements helped us enormously. When he said he believed in equal marriage, it made it okay for ordinary black people to say, ‘I believe in it too.’”
