Author: TerranceDC

Their Own Receive Them Not

Ed. Note: I plan on writing something about black voters, the passage of proposition 8 in California, and the discussion that has ensued about whether the former failed in part because of the latter. In the meantime, I thought...

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Never Failing, Always Failed

Sometimes the most pointed — or preposterous — comes from unexpected sources. This time, it’s The Onion providing the former and the Wall Street Journal serving up the latter. The best satire comes wrapped around a grain...

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Historically Black Homophobia

Ed. Note: I plan on writing something about black voters, the passage of proposition 8 in California, and the discussion that has ensued about whether the former failed in part because of the latter. In the meantime, I thought...

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Nothing Changed

I wrote in the previous post, echoing a commentator from last night, that Americans just elected president a man whose parents’ marriage would have been illegal 40 years ago. Upon hearing that California’s anti-gay...

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A Change is Gonna Come

It’s been a long, long time coming But I know, a change is gonna come. Oh, yes it will. Sam Cooke, “A Change is Gonna Come” At 11:01 p.m. last night, after the polls closed in California, I just had to call...

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