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In support of rational and compassionate public policy at all levels of government which affect the residents of Newtown Township and Bucks County
Fact: Students need a factual account of our history, including slavery and its residual effects on rights and freedoms available to all Americans.
Fact: Transgender children exist. They are harmed when we criminalize their parents' support, and erase them from public view and from materials available in schools.
Fact: Climate change is real. Developing clean energy and related technologies within these shores is an urgent matter of national security.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
~ John Adams
Featured Video: Caroline Randall Williams
This is an example of what our history looks like to a descendant not just of enslaved Black Americans, but also of the Confederate insurrectionists and rapists who fought to keep their own children in chains. It's essential reading for all Americans, and an example of the type of story the "anti-CRT" crowd wants to keep out of public schools.
"I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South.
"If there are those who want to remember the legacy of the Confederacy, if they want monuments, well, then, my body is a monument. My skin is a monument."
Me Imperturbe
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they,
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought;
Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they,
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought;
Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary—all these subordinate, (I am eternally equal with the best—I am not subordinate;)
Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland,
A river-man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada,
Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland,
A river-man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada,
Me, wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies!
O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
~ Walt Whitman
Tired
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
~ Langston Hughes
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