Loving Kindness
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Friday, July 8, 2011
CNN's Don Lemon Speaks With Jeff and Lori Wilfahrt, Parents of Cpl. Andrew Wilfahrt Regarding Minnesota's Possible March Toward Gay Marriage Ban
I for one can no longer even get angry when I hear outlandish statements and twisted logic like that presented by State Senator Warren Limmer in this video. I even seemed to perhaps detect he was hearing his own words here and was maybe realizing how weird they were himself. Probably my imagination. Anyway, when I now hear statements like the State Senator's, I simply experience sadness and yes, compassion for someone who can go so far as to disparage an American soldier who died for this country, in order to defend his own (Limmer's) discriminatory philosophies and beliefs. I just hope every voter in Minnesota sees this video and is able to see the bigotry in Limmer's statements and the reason, intelligence and wisdom in Lori Wilfahrt's. Ashe.
To read a touching and inspired piece written earlier by Jeff Wilffahrt go here.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Goldie Taylor On President Obama's Release of His Long Form Birth Certificate (Papers Please)
By Goldie Taylor 11:36 AM on 04/27/2011
“Show me your papers!” Major Blackard, then just 19 years old, dug into his trousers in search of his wallet. He padded his jacket, but could not find his billfold.
“Sir, I done left my wallet…” Blackard said. Before he could finish his sentence, the young man was posted against the brick wall, cuffed and taken to the St. Louis city jail. Unable to prove his identity, he would spend the next 21 days in a cramped, musty cell. That’s where his older brother Matt found him, beaten and bloodied. Matt returned with Major’s employer later that day, wallet and identification card in hand, to post bond.
The year was 1899. Major Blackard was my great, great grandfather.
The real crime, as Pulitzer Prize winning author Doug Blackmon points on in his seminal work Slavery by Any Other Name, was that my grandfather was a colored man in America.
This morning, as White House staffers released copies of the president’s long form birth certificate, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something very ugly was going on. For the first time in recorded history, a sitting president of the United States found it necessary to produce his original birth certificate for public inspection. Not once, in 235 years, have we ever demanded proof that our president was born on American soil.
Read the rest of the article here
Saturday, March 19, 2011
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