Sam Jackson Lends
Voice to Fight Proposition 8

A new television ad narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson highlights discriminatory practices that cast a shadow over California's short history.

"It wasn't that long ago that discrimination was legal in California," Jackson says. "Japanese Americans were confined in internment camps. Armenians couldn't buy a house in the Central Valley. Latinos and African-Americans were told who they could and could not marry. It was a sorry time in our history. Today the sponsors of Prop. 8 want to eliminate fundamental rights. We have an obligation to pass along to our children a more tolerant, more decent society. Vote No on Prop. 8. It's unfair and it's wrong."

Barring people from marrying "was wrong then, and it's wrong now," former state assembly speaker Fabian Nunez said in a press release. "Proposition 8 is a lot like that unfair ban on interracial marriage. And even though people may feel differently about marriage, everyone ought to agree unequal treatment under the law is a bad thing."

Maria Armoudian, an Armenian-American radio personality for KPFK, mentioned that the proposition eliminates equal rights for some while continuing to grant the same right to others. "We Armenians have had to endure a century of discrimination," she said. "Let us now stand together calling for an end to discrimination for all people." (Michelle Garcia, The Advocate)