I realize that in chastising \white upper-middle class heterosexuals in California\, as one poster did, he is merely executing his prime directive; nevertheless it wouldn’t hurt to remind everyone of the fact that prop 8 was passed BECAUSE OF the strong support from minorities, especially blacks and hispanics, and that \white upper-middle class heterosexuals in California\ are, in fact, mostly pro-gay latte-drinking yuppies who formed the political backbone of prop 8.

He is also pro armageddon. He is also anti womens rights. He is in fact, a pro violent man, because he is a man of the Bible, and the Bible preaches violence.
Again, I repeat – He is a friggin Christian people! Wake the fuck up!
Christians like Obama have waged a war against homosexuals and lesbians for several thousand years now.

What, you like him, just because he’s of colour? Have you heard of Evo Morales? He was elected several years ago… did you people go nuts over that victory?
So Cho did you forget what Martin Luther King said? “regardless of his race or colour” but this election was alll about voting for a black guy – it was all about colour.
How short a memory we have.

D. Polar: as long as we’re quoting African-American religious leaders, here’s another one, this time from Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Wright, from a sermon he gave in the 90’s:

“I refuse to limit my God, to lock God into my cultural understandings because culture is fickle,” Wright said. “And culture is often wrong. Culture was wrong about slavery. Culture was wrong about women. Culture was wrong about Africans and Indians, and culture was wrong about Christ,” he said. “I have been the pariah among many of my clergy colleagues who somehow see me as defective or not quite saved because I won’t join them in their homophobic gay bashing and misquoting of scripture.”

(quoted in the washingtonblade:
http://www.washingtonblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=17266 )

My point is, please, please don’t try to paint a picture of the entire Black community as homophobic. The California NAACP opposed Prop 8, in fact. So did the Greater Sacramento Urban League and several other minority and civil rights organizations:

http://www.noonprop8.com/about/who-opposes-prop-8

Let’s not repay our African-American allies with racism or pretend they don’t exist–if we do, it will only deepen the divide. Read this article by Kathryn Kolbert; it makes a lot of good points:

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/11/blaming_black_v.html

AS I said in an earlier post, I was a Bob Barr supporter, and while I knew he wouldn’t win, I thought he would fare better in the election than he did (he came in behind Nader, for God’s sake.) Ah well, no sense grousing on defeat. I graciously accept that my candidate bit it hard, concede to the winners, and I offer this concession speech which I paraphrased from Penn Jillette:

“You rat bastards don’t deserve a Libertarian president. Cheat, cheat, never beat. Liar, liar, pants on fire. You should all choke on your own vomit… better yet, choke on someone else’s vomit and die. I think you should be pigs cursed for a million years.”

NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER BACK DOWN, NEVER SHUT UP, AND NEVER STOP FIGHTING FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!!!!!

And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us’es, the us’es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.

-Harvey Milk 1974 “Hope Speech”

It’s ironic to me that Gay Rights Amendments in Florida and California are repeating themselves 35 years later. For every civil and human rights issue, history has shown that we are defeated before we prevail. But we have to have hope, so once fairness and equality is finally achieved – it makes victory so much sweeter. Let’s hope for a brighter future with a President who will at least recognize us and hope that the courts will hear our voices. I am proud and humbled to have been apart of the largest grassroots movement in our states history. But there is more work to be done. Stand strong and let’s continue to tell our stories and educate people about the lies and deception.

See you in Reno Margaret

On the other hand, three cheers for the president-elect.

On the other hand, three cheers for the president-elect.
“And though it seems heaven sent,” I believe we’re ready for a Black president -Tupac’ish