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Gary, Indiana revisted
It was about 10:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Savings time when Indiana was called for Sen. Clinton. She won according to most of the MSM 51% to 49% or about 22,000 votes over her Democratic rival Sen. Obama.
Gary in Lake County, Indiana was the site of the last votes to come in. The MSM was droning on about this mysterious place. They often used the proximity of Chicago as if Gary was just a urburb of Chicago. It is close but it has it's own identity.
While all of this was going on, I faintly remembered that Gary was the site of one of the first modern black conventions. The convention was held to focus the black community on issues which are important our community. Just imagine a less covered State of the Black Union held every year by Tavis Smiley. These are the little gems that get lost in the over sanitized MSM.
On 10–12 March 1972, several thousand African AmericansGary, Indiana is near and dear to political junkies like myself. If only I was old enough to attend one of these community building conventions.
gathered in Gary, Indiana, for the National Black Political Convention. The
convention pulled together a cross section of people representing a wide range
of political philosophies. Held at Westside High School, the event brought
together Republicans, Democrats, nationalists, Socialists, and independent













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