So, after all that, it's Obama. Election night reflected an interesting mix in my view.
On the one side, you have the incredible story of progress. It is just fourty years since the year when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, when John Carlos and Tommy Smith made their famous stand on the podium. Yet today we have a black president-elect of America.
On the other side, you have the tale of fear, of the continuation of exclusion and division, as Proposition 8 passed in California to sign into law the banning of gay marriages in the most liberal state of America. You can't help but wonder if this will be the story for the next fourty years.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
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I think one of the real problems is the way that proposition 8 was written. Several people I've spoken to voted yes because they believed they were saying yes to allowing same-sex marriages. I can't help but wonder how many people had that confused and how much that would have impacted the vote.
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