Re: Proud

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Spurt wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@Spurt wrote:
@JaneMarple wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@Spurt

There are videos of the prayer group in the park dome, peacefully meeting, about two dozen as reported.

The path around it is lined with thousands and thousands of counter protesters.

There was no trouble, no fighting by either group.
I wouldn't doubt for one minute @Noel7 if her news showed old footage from someplace else, it's happened before.
@JaneMarple

I can't show the link because of ads, but this is from our local media--...

A self-described "Boston Free Speech Coalition Rally" on Saturday in downtown Boston was dwarfed by thousands of counterprotesters. Organizers of Saturday's counterprotest rally described themselves as anyone who enjoys their right to free speech. Counterprotesters on Saturday made clear to the organizers views of supremacy and violence were not welcome in Boston. They also sought to distance themselves from the violence in Charlottesville.

Rally organizers shared a photo showing the "people who made it through security" assembled in the park gazebo flanked by counter prostesters on all sides. Videos shared earlier in the day on social media showed counter demonstrators jeering at rally goers as they made their way to the event. There were no major incidents reported Saturday in Boston, but police said 33 were arrested -- mostly for disorderly conduct and assaults on police officers.
I am guessing that's an Opinion Piece, not a newspaper article. @Spurt
@Noel7

It was a news description of the event! -----although I agree most news pieces these days are just opinion pieces on all issues---very little real journalism anymore!

ITA @Spurt. A news article cannot be an opinion piece, that one was.

You might be interested in the video interview mentioned.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

great opinion piece found on facebook today that is being shared. it is written by a southern woman and it is in regards to statues and history. look for it......rose sampley. it was written on august 17th. hopefully some of you who are interested can find it.

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"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
There is a really well done video interview of Charlottesville ptotedt leaders on vice dot com.

I watched this yesterday. It made me feel sad for whatever happened in these peoples' lives to make them feel this way. Hoping that they have a change of heart.

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@Drythe wrote:

I pray they will all go this way, but being a Southerner, I am afraid to believe.
I am originally from New York, and still called a "Yankee" by some where I have lived for the past 25 years, a "neutral" state during the Civil War, but still had a slave trade.

The city voted this week to remove a couple of Confederate Statues from an area known downtown as "Cheapside". It's claim to fame is that it was where slaves were sold.

The hate groups let it be known that they will be demonstrating here and I was having a conversation last nite at dinner with a few friends about what we and others we know will do at that time. My friends did bring up a very good point, that these groups are not looking for recognition so much as they are looking for a fight. I think I am leaning toward agreement with those I know who say the best course of action is to ignore them, don't engage, don't give them what they're looking for.

I hope it's not violent when they show up. I hope they have no eyes or ears directed their way.

@QueenDanceALot

@Drythe wrote:

I pray they will all go this way, but being a Southerner, I am afraid to believe.

Hello KLWT,

Since you quoted me, I want say, I think we must NOT ignore this behavior. It should be witnessed, so that there will be clarity in the future about what happened. I do agree that one should not engage.

I hope they will all be as well managed as Boston.

Best.

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
There is a really well done video interview of Charlottesville ptotedt leaders on vice dot com.

I watched this yesterday. It made me feel sad for whatever happened in these peoples' lives to make them feel this way. Hoping that they have a change of heart.

You're right @deepwaterdotter.

The young woman interviewer was so good. She asked good questions and was not judgemental in any way.

Greeneyedlady21 · ‎01-06-2015

For anyone who doesn't know, the Holocaust memorial in Boston was recently vandalized for the second time. It's made of tall glass, and a 17 year old smashed it with a rock. Then an older guy kicked all the flowers that were left there post vandalism.

I'd say 33 arrests out of all those people is fairly amazing. Anyone there with an agenda of violence against fellow man/woman or police officers didn't belong there.

Boston does have some very shameful racist history, and there are racists there just like everywhere. Tragically. But it's not a racist city in spite of what some media people might say. It's full of some good people too who will never stand for that stuff.

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

@Noel7 wrote:
@deepwaterdotter wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
There is a really well done video interview of Charlottesville ptotedt leaders on vice dot com.

I watched this yesterday. It made me feel sad for whatever happened in these peoples' lives to make them feel this way. Hoping that they have a change of heart.
You're right @deepwaterdotter.

The young woman interviewer was so good. She asked good questions and was not judgemental in any way.

She was on w/ Anderson Cooper, as well.

Greeneyedlady21 · ‎01-06-2015

Holocaust Memorial in Boston

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
Holocaust Memorial in Boston

@Greeneyedlady21 Thank you. We've seen this several times and the last time we had grandson with us. He was old enough to learn about its significance. It's a very sacred memorial.

The teen and the other man have both been arrested, as you probably know. The teen should be charged with hate crime; I don't know if that can stretch to vandalizing the flowers, though.

"" Compassion is a verb."-Thich Nhat Hanh