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:: Monday, August 16, 2004 ::
"A breach in progressive solidarity"
St. Louis Oracle, a 3rd party progressive blog has a very nice recap of how Missouri's blacks broke ranks with their party on the issue of gay marriage, supporting the constitutional ban:
Betrayal?: Blacks backed Amendment 2
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The 13 black wards that backed the measure did so with over 55% of the vote. The five county black townships doing so posted a 64% majority for the amendment. Both figures are well ahead of the support percentages for the entire city (where the amendment lost) and the entire county (60%).
Both major African American weekly newspapers, the St. Louis American and the St. Louis Argus, had remained editorially silent on the ballot measure.
Doug Gray, campaign manager for the Constitutional Defense League, told St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Smith that he was disappointed that those people who historically have supported civil rights issues -- labor unions, African Americans and Democrats -- largely decided to sit out the Amendment 2 election. "Being silent and saying nothing is no longer good enough."
St. Louis Oracle is an insightful glimpse into 3rd party, progressive politics maintained by a self-described "grassroots veteran with a mature, progressive anti-establishment perspective.." Drop in and see what the other other-side is thinking [>]
:: Max 10:03 PM [+] ::
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