10-10-2011, 06:36 AM
Keith Millea Wrote:How about this:
Respectfully not letting Rep.John Lewis(human rights icon)give a statement to the crowd.All decisions are by consensus voting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGM...e=youtu.be
I think that is the only major mis-step this movement has made so far. He could have brought the Civil Rights Movement and many Blacks associated with it into this movement.....it might have alienated some; I hope he tries again and they allow him to speak. They likely didn't even know who he was, due to the age gap and historical amnesia in America. I know they have some fear the well-know persons could try to take over or co-opt their movement, but a speech by one - more so if it is an endorsement and asking those who respect them to respect OXS will not cause any harm. You can't build a movement without building a movement.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass