One day late but still a great quote:

We must develop & maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us & some evil in the best of us. --- Martin Luther King, Jr.

From Martin Luther King's last speech made the day before he was assasinated:

And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers? Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me ( Read more... )

It has just been publicly admitted that the United States Public Health Service in 1940's purposefully infected jailed prisoners in Guatemala with Syphilis in order to study the ability of penicillin to protect subjects from the disease.  Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius have today ( Read more... )

It is a great day for the Grand Old Party, the GOP, the Republicans in this country.  They are actually talking out loud about the need to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment, so the children of illegal aliens born in the United States can be disenfranchised.

In case you are unfamiliar with the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ( Read more... )

I decided to post one last bit on the Prescott school issue because I think this picture from the rally supporting the mural and diversity asks a great question.
http://www.examiner.com/x-31346- ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Miller Elementary School with the support of many from the town of Prescott held a rally at the school in support of the mural, the children depicted and diversity.  The school decided not to alter the skin tones of the children in the mural but to stand up to those who were offended and admitted at the rally that they were wrong to do ( Read more... )

I can't stop thinking about the Arizona story that I posted earlier. (After motorists shouted racist slurs at school children painting a mural on an elementary school that depicted a Mexican child in a prominent place and an AM radio jockey who happens to be a town councilman complained about it, the school principal decided to lighten the skin of ( Read more... )

I really hope that this will turn out to be a hoax; I really do, because if it isn't it is a sad, sad commentary on the people of a state which is part of the United States. I insist on using the names of the city and the actual people involved because people who express such views really need to be outed, and publicly recognized for what they are.

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John F Kennedy once told a student who asked how he'd become a war hero that it was simple. "They sunk my boat."

Well on this Memorial Day weekend I've been honoring some heroes who in May of 1961 were able to reveal their courage in the simplest of ways, by sharing a diner counter or riding a bus with a person of another race.

I give you Jim ( Read more... )

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Come see the joys of being arrested outside the colored waiting room while holding a sign calling for equal opportunity and dignity. Would Rand Paul have the guts to look at what winning the public accomodations laws took? I take this seriously. I happen to live in a house built in 1964 that has written in the documents a protective covenant ( Read more... )