Today I posted the failure of the Democratic Party Platform Committee to listen to the Sanders minority on the issue of Palestine and continued with the biased and bigoted proposals of AIPAC lobbyists. I present a not very good article concerning the actions at the DPPC : Times of Israel I am so thankful for Bernie Sanders and his representatives Dr. West, Dr. Zogby and Rep.
“I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m saying’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America”
~2pac~
I think a society's quality is exemplified by the way it treats it's vulnerable and least empowered members. Let's examine how we are doing.
You should meet Lucy Tidd. She is 8. It is unusual for such a young child to be scaring the bejeezus out of adults across the land.
Because looking at the behavior of those adults...adults who enough people judged to be sufficiently mentally competent that they elected them to public office, you'd think she was a serial killer.
It was the first day of third grade and 8-year-old Lucy was sitting in the principal’s office with her parents, crying her heart out. She was terrified. Mark and I sat with her and said: ‘This is your journey. We will go and do whatever you want.’ She had this blue bunny and she just held onto that and sobbed and sobbed. And then Mark carried her to the classroom.
--Briget Tidd
The scariest thing is that nobody knew except for the teachers. The kids saw Benjamin walk into school dressed like a girl, and they were like, ‘Hey, Benji.’ They were confused, but there was no malicious intent.
--Mark Tidd
Lucy didn’t relax until recess, when her mother helped a group of curious girls understand what was happening.
I said to them, ‘This is the same person you played with last year, that you played four square with, that you played jump rope with, that you ran around and played ball with. This is the same exact person.’ Only now, Benji wants to be just like you...like a girl.
--Briget Tidd
“I said, ‘Do you think that we can let her be herself and do this?’ ” Bridget asked the girls, who nodded in agreement. “Then the next thing I know they took her hand and they ran and that was it.”
I stood there with tears in my eyes, trusting that the rest of the day would be OK, and I let her go. And at that moment she was completely free, and we’ve never turned back.
