[lbo-talk] card check

[SA]

Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 03:13 PM 11/5/2008, Mr. X wrote:
>
>> The increased black vote helped the anti-gay propositions win.
>>
>> peace,
>
>
> It's too early to know this isn't it?  There's more to the story anyway:
>
>
> http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/black_voters_not_to_blame_if_proposition.php 
>
>
> A troubling New York Times article on Proposition 8, the proposed 
> California anti-marriage constitutional amendment, asserts that some 
> marriage supporters are concerned that strong support for Sen. Barack 
> Obama's presidential candidacy among Black voters may spell trouble 
> for efforts to defeat the proposal to take away marriage rights for 
> same-sex couples.

This blog post is pretty lame. It's not cheerful news to hear that 70% 
of blacks voted for Prop. 8 but to blame the NYT for reporting it is 
just dumb. And that's leaving aside all the non-sequitur arguments it 
uses to try to depict the article as somehow misleading when it appears 
to be accurate in fact.

SA