… or not so much.
Actually, it was a bunch of pro-gay marriage protesters.
But can you imagine the headlines if it had been a Sarah Palin rally?
This one will probably remain below the radar. It, after all, contradicts the conservatives as racists/liberals as tolerant meme. This story comes from The Canadian Press.
Proposition 8, banning the right of same-sex couples to wed, passed by more than three percentage points in the reliably Democratic state.
Much of that margin came from a flood of as many as 500,000 new black voters turning out to cast their ballots for Obama. According to various polls, African-American voters supported the ban by 70-30 per cent, while whites were slightly opposed and Hispanics evenly split.
[...]
In the midst of such heated talk and hurt feelings, a rally late last week against Proposition 8 in Los Angeles turned ugly.
“It was like being at a Klan rally except the Klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks,” said one attendee, a gay black man.
The UCLA student said he was twice called the n-word.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Black America and the N-word:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP2U0jmZjec
[Ed.: This is obviously spam, but I thought it was interesting, so I let it through - CT]
November 11th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Nice of the Canadian press to keep us informed.
November 12th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Ok I’ll be the bearer of bad news…most cultures since the begining of time have been against same sex relationships (not to say that it didn’t go on any way) and prejudice (this also happened any way). So I ask what was the point? Oh yeah some more typical media coverage exploiting something in the name of news or lack thereof. Let’s see if you’re not part of the solution…you are part of the problem!