The Year of Living Postracially is a great editorial written by Colson Whitehead and published in the New York Times yesterday.
A few words about Maine and the dying hog of homophobia is a blog post written by Pam Spaulding on Pam's House Blend that had some relevant parts relating to race, sexual identity, and civil rights:
It's simply not time, not in this place. What this loss in Maine (and the victory in Washington State) says to me is that I am so grateful that my civil rights, as a person of color, were not put up to a popular vote. As we've seen over and over in the last year, the emergence of naked racism lives despite laws on the books banning discrimination based on race. Reality-based arguments to people who are raised with bias have little motivation to change their thinking outside of keeping their bigotry out of the realm of law-breaking (and even then -- it still occurs!). The feelings simply go underground.
And lastly, relating again to the recent election results regarding LGBTQ issues in Washington and Maine, there is an article called Election Coverage: The World's First 'Civil Likes' Movement that included the following passage:
It is time we wake up and acknowledge that the GLBT fight for equality is the world’s first “Civil Likes” movement. Each year, a popularity contest is held somewhere on the map and if the locals find us likeable our families are protected. If the natives have a negative view of gay people, we remain second-class citizens.
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