Ron Buckmire, who heads the Barbara Jordan/Bayard Rustin Coalition, a black gay-rights group in Los Angeles, said the vote shows that "there is a lot of work to be done in the black community."What do you think?
Buckmire said the campaign should also have emphasized that, at its core, the proposition was about stripping a minority of a right that they had enjoyed. "The civil rights of people should not be put to a vote," he said. "Period. I would have thought that that message would have gotten through."
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
MadProfessah Quoted In Saturday's LA TIMES on Prop 8 and Race
So, today's Los Angeles Times has another quote from me in an article (starting on the front page, below the fold) entitled "Gays, Blacks divided on Proposition 8."
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2008 elections,
African American,
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LGBT,
media,
personal,
Proposition 8
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