prop (h)8

[dahled]

-black folk, by the most inflated estimate, are nowhere near 10% of the electorate in CA - really, not even close, not even this year. we make up something like 6% of the population and far (far, faaaaaar) too many of us are locked up for that to be mathematically possible

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[elliotharmon]

"just seems like the talking heads are trying too hard to insert irony where it doesn't really exist."

This really can't be said enough times. I see people trying to build some grand narrative to damn black voters, and really the whole thing stinks of such thinly-veiled racism. It's gross.

I disagree about propositions being stupid, but I do think we need to educate ourselves and each other about local politics more than we do. Local and state politics--and especially ballot measures--are always treated like side-shows, while the president and congress are the main event. I'd imagine that cities have crumbled because of people's spur-of-the-moment decisions on shit that they didn't even know was on the ballot.

[dahled]

okay... the props aren't stupid - the electorate is and while they/we are we should not have the ability to make this kind of decision. or at very least they should only have props during mid-terms or greatly increase what's needed to get something on the ballot or something like that.