Quote of the Day -- Sunday Edition

Think about it.  Then let's maybe do some things about it. All of it.

Entertainment Overnight -- On This Day

ON THIS DAY

On Sept. 12, 1977, the South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry.

And in honor of Steven Biko...

Quote of the Day -- Timely

What part of equality do people not understand?

A way to live

I hope this is true. I found it on a friend's page on Facebook: "Today, I read a story about an anthropologist who proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that as one could have had all the fruits for himself they said: 'UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?'" UBUNTU in the Xhosa culture (where this woman's husband is from:) means: "I am because we are."

A refresher course on the Republican Party

Lest you or anyone think the Republican Party of today only recently got this way, please read the following recounting of that grand old now-deceased leader of the Conservatives in general but Republicans, specifically as one writer to the editor did in the May 10, 2009 issue of The New York Times Magazine: "William F. Buckley began his career vehemently defending the worst excesses of McCarthyism; throughout the civil rights movement, opposed integration and black suffrage; during the Vietnam War, advocated using nuclear weapons against the North Vietnamese; supported unconditionally the racist apartheid government of South Africa; cheerled for the genocidal CIA-backed coup against Allende in Chile; and, in the early years of the AIDS pandemic, recommended that HIV-diagnosed patients be forcibly tattooed on their buttocks. Despite the virtues of his intellect and charisma, William F Buckley's only legacy to us is that mixture of homophobia, greed, racism, hypocrisy and military recklessness that is 21st-century conservatism." --David A. Murphy, Providence, RI. I hope that clears things up.

Quote of the day

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." --Nelson Mandela

Think you--and the US--aren't racist?

Then read this:

My Name Is Ed. I'm a Racist

More reasons why, maybe, we should also "come down a few notches"?

Thanks to Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and his blog for this.

We can do this

and we must.

One love

Let's get together...

(Thanks, Bob! Actually, both Bobs).

Have a good weekend, y'all.