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Cinco de Mayo Isn't What People Think

By Edwin Decker

San Diego CityBeat | May 5, 2004

Cinco de Mayo is not, as many would have it, a day to commemorate Mexico's independence from Spain. It's a celebration of the date in 1862 that Mexico defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla.

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Tags: Mexico, WAR, independence, race relations, France, Spain, Cinco de Mayo, Napoleon Buonaparte, President James Polk

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It was February 1999. I had just written a Sordid rant condemning a cluster of City Council-proposed anti-stripper laws that prompted a dozen or so local dancers to e-mail me in gratitude. It was an exciting chapter in my life.

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Yes, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, was a day when you truly felt proud to be an American. But then, on Nov. 5, I read something that changed all that. I read that California's black voters favored Proposition 8 by a margin of 70 percent to 30 percent, which means seven out of 10 black voters voted against gay marriage.

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