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Patrick holds few values higher than equality and fairness. He is decidedly in favor of marriage equality and reproductive rights. He worked as the assistant attorney general for civil rights during the Clinton administration and was a lead attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense Fund. Throughout his legal career, he has spent a considerable amount of his time working pro bono...
...other words, you share a religious affiliation with some people who have beliefs that I find unacceptable, therefore you are unacceptable. According to that logic, Golding should never vote for a Democrat, because party affiliation is entirely a matter of choice, and some Democrats defended slavery and opposed civil rights...
...Harvard students had heeded the advice in my last column, they would be aware of the fact that the world is now coming down around our ears. The other day, while watching the completely non-partisan and unbiased Fox News Network, I was treated to several stories on rioting, civil unrest, and generalized chaos. The languages, skin tones, and political backgrounds of the participants all changed, but burning cars, Molotov cocktails, and swarms of plastic-shielded riot police provided enough continuity for even the most unschooled to make the connection: In more than a few countries, things...
...Opponents Say: The state's Affirmative Action laws help create a level playing field by requiring that doors be open to women and minorities. To ban such programs would undo decades of civil rights progress...
...fall for the line that the nation's original plan called for denying felons the vote. In 1800, no state prohibited felons from voting. On the eve of the Civil War, 80% of the states did, largely to block African Americans, who though rarely allowed to vote were disproportionately represented among felons. Today, the impact of these laws still falls disproportionately on poor, minority males, a fact that seems to have skewed more than a few elections. Anyone familiar with the details of the deadlocked 2000 presidential race will recall that tens of thousands of likely Democratic voters were disenfranchised...