AMERICAblog: Nate Silver: Uncounted Votes May Push Begich Past Stevens
Gary SF
· 1 year ago
Way OT: This is an example of what we are up against in the black community. It is an opinion piece that was in today's LA Times, but this is the author's (a black lesbian) website. Read how she justifies why blacks should not have voted against proposition 8. Here is a tidbit:
"The first problem with Proposition 8 was the issue of marriage itself. The white gay community never successfully communicated to blacks why it should matter to us above everything else — not just to me as a lesbian but to blacks generally. The way I see it, the white gay community is banging its head against the glass ceiling of a room called equality, believing that a breakthrough on marriage will bestow on it parity with heterosexuals. But the right to marry does nothing to address the problems faced by both black gays and black straights. Does someone who is homeless or suffering from HIV but has no healthcare, or newly out of prison and unemployed, really benefit from the right to marry someone of the same sex?"
With all these recounts going on (I'm watching, via Burnt Orange what is going on in Texas, for instance), one gets the impression that we've got it backwards.
These are votes that should be counted first, not the other way around. That way, there may be less contention over them, especially since their format seems to be the least secure of all the voting methods.
We Alaskans are paying very close attention to this vote count and asking ourselves, and our political leaders, why this count is taking so long to be completed.
I have it on good authority that this thing is about to blow up in a huge way, so stay tuned America.
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"The first problem with Proposition 8 was the issue of marriage itself. The white gay community never successfully communicated to blacks why it should matter to us above everything else — not just to me as a lesbian but to blacks generally. The way I see it, the white gay community is banging its head against the glass ceiling of a room called equality, believing that a breakthrough on marriage will bestow on it parity with heterosexuals. But the right to marry does nothing to address the problems faced by both black gays and black straights. Does someone who is homeless or suffering from HIV but has no healthcare, or newly out of prison and unemployed, really benefit from the right to marry someone of the same sex?"
http://www.jasmynecannick.com/blog/?p=2860#comm...
These are votes that should be counted first, not the other way around. That way, there may be less contention over them, especially since their format seems to be the least secure of all the voting methods.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/sto...
Uh, huh, something's rotten in Alaska!
Alaska progressive bloggers have been covering this story since the day after the election.
I am glad you have referenced my friend Shannyn Moore's amazing post on this story.
You can find more here: http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2008/11/...
We Alaskans are paying very close attention to this vote count and asking ourselves, and our political leaders, why this count is taking so long to be completed.
I have it on good authority that this thing is about to blow up in a huge way, so stay tuned America.