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...elected judges.” Like McCarthy, Motley also criticized Obama’s muddled position on gay marriage. “Barack Obama opposes gay marriage and opposes Proposition 8, which probably confused some voters,” Motley stated, referring to the exit polls showing that black and Latino voters supported the Democrat but also voted for the proposition. While hopes for gay marriage were not totally dashed by the passage of Proposition 8, they were certainly dimmed. Gay-rights advocates have already filed three lawsuits challenging the proposition, saying that it is an illegal constitutional revision rather...
Toni Morrison once said that Bill Clinton was “Blacker than any actual Black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime.” She was wrong. As state after state moved into the Democratic column last night, hope crystallized into a reality: Barack Hussein Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. This is a monumental step forward for our politics and our country. For 232 years, our founding fathers’ promise of liberty and equality for all has rung hollow for a large segment...
...could, in fact, say it is the questions that he draws from his experience that are as important as any answers he may come up with. How to make a peace between the black and the white inside him (or inside our cities and our country)? How to do right by our relatives in Africa without dishonoring the grandparents from Kansas who raised us? How to bring the modest Muslim school in Java together with Harvard Law School? The questions Obama has been thinking about all his life are the very ones that dominate the world today. And the mounting...
Gays came back in some polls, but they couldn't pull out a win. Part of the reason is that Obama inspired unprecedented numbers of African Americans to vote. Polls show that black voters are more likely to attend church than whites and less likely to be comfortable with equality for gay people. According to CNN, African Americans voted against marriage equality by a wide margin, 69% to 31%. High turnout of African Americans in Florida probably help explain that state's lopsided vote to ban same-sex weddings...
...pledged to help Obama lead the nation through the dangers ahead, and praised his victory as a civil rights breakthrough of particular significance for black Americans. "Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this the greatest nation on earth," he told the crowd, flanked by his wife, Cindy, his running mate, Sarah Palin, and her husband, Todd...