Sunday, October 10, 2010
So when does 'it get better,' Valerie Jarrett?
Posted by John Aravosis (DC) at 10/10/2010 02:27:00 PM
http://gay.americablog.com/2010/10/so-when-does-it-get-better-valerie.html (http://gay.americablog.com/2010/10/so-when-does-it-get-better-valerie.html)
There was something somewhat distasteful about Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett co-opting Dan Savage's anti-bullying message by taking its name and using it as the title of her speech at the Human Rights Campaign's annual "No Excuses" dinner last night.
And it's even more distasteful that she mentioned Dan's slogan "it gets better" in her speech, but didn't even bother mentioning the anti-bullying campaign it represented, or the fact that Dan was spearheading it. Better to plagiarize than give credit to a real fierce advocate.
But putting aside that little bit of chutzpah, there's the larger gall of anyone in the Obama administration daring to tell gay people that things are going to get better when things in Obama-land keep getting decidedly worse.