morning after

[jaina]

I woke up this morning, and my first thought wasn't that Obama had won. It was that Prop 8 had passed. Last night, I was so hopeful about the election; today I just feel sick.

I'm sick because 52% of Californians voted to specifically *take away* rights from their fellow citizens, rights that our state Supreme Court said we are *all* entitled to.

(I'm sick because we *can* take away rights with a simple majority vote. What the hell, California? At least Florida had to get to 60%.)

I'm sick because the Yes on 8 campaign was a disgusting, shameful pack of lies and scare tactics, and it WORKED. It worked.

I don't want to hear anything about how we're just "not ready" for it. No. Fuck that. Should we have waited until the South was "ready" for desegregation?

I know that the fight isn't over; I know there are other paths to pursue. I know that minds change slowly, and that we *will* get there someday. But today, I'm sad, sick, and disappointed.

Comments

[remba24.livejournal.com]

AMEN!!!! This is exactly how I felt! Very bitter-sweet. Like we won but we lost. And while the parts of Obama's acceptance speech I hearch was amazing, I couldn't stop inserting scarcastic comments to myself that what he is saying obviously isn't true if your "different from the majority".
I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling this way.