One Nation, Thanks Entirely to Community Organizers
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The local media was apparently not interested in a rebuttal to Gov. Sarah Palin's damnation of Obama's experience as a Community Organizer. If we forget our history, we'll forget how our nation was formed and reformed. Here's my letter:
Dear Editor:
Unlike Governor Sarah Palin, I have a deep and abiding respect for community organizers.
A couple of centuries ago, community organizers were responsible for putting together a protest commonly referred to as "The Boston Tea Party" that was part of many other organized events that made it possible for me to write a letter for publication that opposes the words of a Governor. Those community organized events also ensured that all of our governors are elected by a majority of their constituents rather than appointed by a King. No American needs to bow or curtsey before another American.
Other community organizers made sure that child labor laws were enacted. Still other community organizers ended my childhood confusion over why the water that came out of the "colored" water fountains in Florida didn't have any color at all. Still other community organizers made it possible for me -- a woman -- to vote, and paved the way for Sarah Palin to be elected as Alaska's governor.
I'd rather have my name associated with community organizers like Samuel Adams, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King, Jr. than Gov. Sarah Palin. When these community organizers spoke, they did not slander anyone. When they wrote, they did not libel anyone. There was no need to do either, their causes were just; the oppression was obvious.
The official White House biography of President Washington, a military leader entrusted with the lives of all of our troops, recounts that "he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit." I don't want a pitbull in lipstick for a Vice President; I want someone sufficiently capable of circumspection to give respect where it is due. We would have no nation at all if it weren't for community organizers, and community organizers -- Adams and Jefferson -- have served honorably as President of the United States.
Sincerely,
Susan Chandler
Dear Editor:
Unlike Governor Sarah Palin, I have a deep and abiding respect for community organizers.
A couple of centuries ago, community organizers were responsible for putting together a protest commonly referred to as "The Boston Tea Party" that was part of many other organized events that made it possible for me to write a letter for publication that opposes the words of a Governor. Those community organized events also ensured that all of our governors are elected by a majority of their constituents rather than appointed by a King. No American needs to bow or curtsey before another American.
Other community organizers made sure that child labor laws were enacted. Still other community organizers ended my childhood confusion over why the water that came out of the "colored" water fountains in Florida didn't have any color at all. Still other community organizers made it possible for me -- a woman -- to vote, and paved the way for Sarah Palin to be elected as Alaska's governor.
I'd rather have my name associated with community organizers like Samuel Adams, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King, Jr. than Gov. Sarah Palin. When these community organizers spoke, they did not slander anyone. When they wrote, they did not libel anyone. There was no need to do either, their causes were just; the oppression was obvious.
The official White House biography of President Washington, a military leader entrusted with the lives of all of our troops, recounts that "he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit." I don't want a pitbull in lipstick for a Vice President; I want someone sufficiently capable of circumspection to give respect where it is due. We would have no nation at all if it weren't for community organizers, and community organizers -- Adams and Jefferson -- have served honorably as President of the United States.
Sincerely,
Susan Chandler
You hit all those nails right on the head, I could just see one of our congressmen/women giving that speech.
I loved the child and the colored water thing----that actually happened to someone I know who's family was visiting Mississippi