How many "No on 8" folks are upset about the vote against Affirmative Action?

[Leopolds Ghost]

Upset enough to go out in the streets?

Upset enough to blame someone other than black people for the loss of Affirmative Action, Public Housing in New Orleans and other social programs?

How about FISA or Voter ID or other civil liberties issues?

Time for some unity on progressive issues. Back-scratching, people.

There is still a chance Prop 8 might pass... and the momentum for civil unions is still in place.

Do any of these other issues have a chance?

The momentum from Pennsylvania Ave. down to the street is still in favor of Reaganism
("personal responsibility", attacks on "social pathology") when it comes to issues that affect
the inner city poor.

Can you imagine a Democrat publically talking about the "pathology" of ANY OTHER
Democratic voting group?

[ourbluenation]

1. me

:hi:

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. Yay! See, it's time for some unity.

:hug:

[Starry Messenger]

3. Do people blame black people for the loss of affirmitive action?

I don't know why I'm asking actually. Stranger shit happens every day.

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. People blame black people for lots of stuff

Wealthy black and white people blame poor black people for their problems and call them socially pathological,
then get angry when they don't vote a certain way. Meanwhile, 60% of whites get off scot free when they landslide
on a regular basis to screw blacks every time the chance is put to them.

:shrug:

[Starry Messenger]

8. It's been a shitty few days on here.

I've been posting about the 60% but those are sinking like rocks.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. I blame one black person for the initiative that unfortunately passed here a while back.

This asshat.....



Ward Connerly, who's behind all these anti-affirmative action ballot measures.

[cliffordu]

4. Yep. Me too...

:patriot:

[Democrats_win]

7. I voted against Colorado's anti-affirmative action measure! (#46)

Our state was the first one to defeat this type of measure that bans affirmative action. It was a close vote. I was against it because 1. I'm a liberal, 2. Our major colleges are all white so we should encourage African Americans to attend.

This thread is correct: scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. We have the same enemies: bigots.

[Unvanguard]

9. I was watching the affirmative action measures as well as the same-sex marriage ones

and you can bet that I was angered and disappointed by the success of the one in Nebraska.

But Prop. 8 I take as a personal attack. It's not a political judgment of relative importance; it's just that it can't help but be personally relevant to me when the most populous state in the country votes in favor of making the group to which I belong second-class citizens.

I don't have a problem with other people having the same attitude to issues to which they are personally attached.

I think you're painting with a bit of a broad brush at the moment.