Hello All,
Yesterday was the MOST fun I've had in a Pride parade.
My partner Gary Schiff, council member for the Ninth
Ward, and I rode in a Mini Cooper. Gary waved, and I
held and waved a sign.
As folks have pointed out on the list, the sign had a
tasteful side and a less tasteful side. The
Additionally, before the festival I was not able to find reference to it in the Strib
online list
of festivals. Perhaps I missed something?
In reference to my previous post, I've already heard back from a list member that
throughout the
parade, cross-traffic was permitted. I have never seen
Shame on Terrell Brown for expressing a personal opinion regarding the sign that Council Member Schiffassociated himself with this weekend.Freedom of speech, tolerance to other ideals (regardless of what they are)and non-conformity to a specificway of thinking, is exactly what got us to the place
The practice of free speech is often tasteless and worse, deadly.
Codifying the obvious is a dirty job, but in this case Terrell had to do
it. Good on him.
Strom Thurmond was 100 years old. One cannot get too excited over the
fact that he died. It was somehow much worse in my mind that
Jim Berg wrote:
As folks have pointed out on the list, the sign had a
tasteful side and a less tasteful side. The tasteful
side said Thank You Supreme Court. When the crowd
saw that side they cheered. The less tasteful side
said, Goodbye Strom Thurmond. When the crowd saw
that side, they
