Our Choice on Prop 8 and African Americans: Reckless Carping or Productive Change?
Filed by: Guest Blogger
November 6, 2008 8:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/our_choice_on_prop_8_and_african_america.phpEditors' Note: Guest blogger Cindy Rizzo is a long time Projector. She blogs at Personal=Political=Polemical.
IMG_0014.JPGLosing California has been a major demoralizing event for our community and there's no way to minimize that. Frankly I feel robbed--robbed of the opportunity to bask in the Obama victory, robbed of the opportunity to be excited about the Democratic majority in the US Senate and in my local New York State Senate, and robbed of the belief that there was real momentum building for a widespread progressive renewal in the US.
On Wednesday, the day after Election Day, I felt hung over, exhausted, depressed, angry, marginalized. And I knew that if I wrote anything about the election that day, I might regret it after I'd had a good night's sleep.
