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The Embarrassed Elites of North Carolina

Sam87 Wrote: May 14, 2012 9:52 PM

civil rights has encompased many things such as gender, class, race (origin rather than skin colour), agism and many other kinds of discrimination. The civil rights movement is about creating a civil society where these things do matter in regards to your ability to succed or be treated in a "civil" way. not saying that this is a civil rights issue, just pointing out it is far more than just how much pigment is in your skin tone

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The Embarrassed Elites of North Carolina

This past Tuesday, May 8th, was a rough day for the liberal elites of North Carolina, as the people of their home state overwhelmingly passed the marriage amendment. In fact, it was so embarrassing for them that over the weekend, Gov. Beverly Perdue told a reporter, “We look like Mississippi.” For a liberal elite, what could possibly be worse than that?

There was, of course, the expected backlash from those outside of North Carolina, with thousands of people signing the Change.org petition calling for the Democratic National Convention to be pulled from Charlotte, also eliciting comments like these: “As an LGBT...

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