The Spencer Hamilton Blog

The Religious Right’s Must Now Export Homohatred The 1970’s saw a rise in Black Awareness, Soul Train, The Jacksons had a cartoon show, Diana Ross went solo, Nixon got into the White House, Donnie Hathaway and Roberta Flack did countless duos together, AM Radio was king and one of the growing problems through the 1960’s The Vietnam War came to a close as it went Communist in 1975—our involvement made the difference. In the face of all these things, another movement was picking up Reverend Jerry Fallwell and Anita Bryant were instrumental parts of the Moral Majority. These were people who felt that the sexual revolution, the Civil Rights Struggle, the Flower Children and The Gay Rights Movement had come to power and were going to tear up the good and decent fabric of this country. That’s when we saw a Moral Majority sweep the nation on TV, on the radio, in campaign posters, evening news, wherever there was a mic and a camera there they were In 1978, after Anita Bryant led

November 2014 Elections  I remember saying that women in 2014 will help Democrats bounce back in 2014. I mean it as surely as I’m sitting here. Women’s rights has resurfaced after bills in OH, AL, TN—at least 400 bills to regulate women’s health have been introduced in state legislatures around the country. One of the women that came out against a bill in TX is Wendy Davis. I will share 3 videos about Wendy Davis in the description because she has done a lot in her time in the TX State Senate in Austin. She has helped pass a law that would ease the backlog of rape kits in TX, she had pushed a proposal through the Legislature that would help married women vote under their maiden names if they hadn’t changed their names on their IDs—prior to that a well-known TX judge was almost turned away from voting. The Republicans were so afraid of her that they tried to size her district to Republican to get rid of her. She argued successfully in court to keep the district the way it was—and

Ferguson, MO and Sanford FL are a narrative that we’re used to seeing, covering up evidence, and taking too long to state what actually happened. Two unarmed young black men killed by someone with a gun is two of many stories like the one chronicled in Fruitvale Station , and the recent chokehold death right out of Do The Right Thing —gives black men reason to be mad at a system that categorizes us as dangerous, mad, craven and deserving of a bullet. Next to that, I also see mentally ill people facing similar tragedy which tells us more about the police than their victims. When innocent people are killed by police it taints the narrative we saw as little kids: the cops are the good guys who get the bad guys. When we grow up however, we realize that the cops more often ARE the bad guys—they’re just immune to the law they are supposed to serve and protect So, after all the protests and the clashes with police are happening in Ferguson and solidarity actions in many cities take plac

Every 10 years we take the census which gathers information about population growth or decline and is used for a variety of things from funding to voting patterns to statistical data Political Theatre Erie County Legislators Betty Jean Grant and Barbara Miller-Williams presented competing maps that were to be voted on by the legislature. Betty Jean’s map had 40% of the landmass of Erie County in one district while Barbara Miller-Williams had more even districts but they cracked up communities to help Republicans—something she denies to this day. However, it ended up in court in 2011 and Judge William Skretny ended up drawing the map which I believe County Legislators are running on today. Every 10 years, for astute political observers, we are always looking out for this and how it’ll play out in court. AZ’s Governor wanted to fire a woman who headed the Independent Redistricting Commission because Brewer felt that the maps provided to the Legislature advantaged Democrats