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You Don’t Know Jack or Barack

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Source Summary

Last month the Advocate ran an article titled “Gay Is The New Black?: The Last Great Civil Rights Struggle“. Today Joe Solmonese and other gay rights advocates have expressed outrage at the choice of Pastor Rick Warren. But not every GLBT person agrees. I count myself as one of those voices. I defended Barack Obama feverishly when the whole Donnie McClurkin thing came down because I understood what he was trying to do. He’s never claimed to be a liberal, though many have put that tag on him. He’s never been anti-war, though many have put that tag on him. He’s never been anti-Christian even though many have put that tag on him. He’s said in his speeches that he’s not the “president of red America or blue America, but the United States of America” or something like that thousands of times. I can understand the anger at the Gates

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“You Don’t Know Jack or Barack” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging community and organizing. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2008 at Transadvocate.com, “You Don’t Know Jack or Barack” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to community and organizing. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and community and organizing, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

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Themes

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
2
Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
29%
3
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
21%
4
Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
14%
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Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
14%

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Interpretive analysis
100%

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Civil rights and anti-discrimination
100%

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Granular comparative context

How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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13 2005

6 2006

43 2007

38 2008

23 2009

6 2010

106 2011

45 2012

125 2013

61 2014

21 2015

13 2016

15 2017

22 2018

6 2019

1 2021

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations