Save The Country (Part Two)
by: Stuffed Animal
Wed Dec 03, 2008 at 12:35:09 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=CE2DA5EC65F4AFACD7490A9B879FCBC8?diaryId=8485A lot of people criticized San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for sounding too defiant in a "No on 8" campaign commercial. He told California voters that, whether they liked it or not, the time had come for marriage equality. Too defiant? Compared to what? Would that most of us could be even half as defiant as he was! If Conservatives get offended by strident denunciation of discriminatory public policy, tough t*tty! Lord knows, they've offended us often enough. Mayor Newsom's righteous indignation inspires me and reminds me of Rosa Parks. When she refused to give up her bus seat to a White man in 1955, she demanded of the policemen who arrested her: "Why do you push us around?" She put herself at risk of a beating, but she was too angry to care. Years later, she reflected:
"It's not that I was fed up (that day). I was fed up all my life, as far back as I can remember, with being treated as less than a free person . . . as long as we continued to comply with these rules and regulations that kept us crushed down as a people, then the power structure would always say: 'Well, they are not complaining, and they accept this, so they are satisfied with it.'"
