Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: This Evening I Am Going To Dinner…

Monday, January 19, 2015

This Evening I Am Going To Dinner…

Tonight there is a LGBT community discussion on housing discrimination. Even through there are laws in Connecticut and HUD prohibiting discrimination in housing we are still being discriminated against. So tonight the CT Fair Housing Center is hosting a dinner to talk about it…

LGBT* COMMUNITY: HOUSING DISCUSSION JOIN US FOR DINNER

WHAT IS IT?
CT Fair Housing works to protect and ensure the housing rights of all CT residents and would like to hear, particularly from the Transgender community, what type of hurdles or problems community members are facing when they look for housing. We will also share with you our services , the projects we are working on and how you can help in the fight for equal housing rights!

WHY SHOULD I COME?
Help us understand some of the key issues the community faces and learn about how we can help you if you face housing discrimination!
Your Voice Matters!

WHEN:
Monday, January 19th (MLK Day) @ 5:00pm-7:30pm
Dinner will be provided!

WHERE:
True Colors
30 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT
Ground Floor Classroom

HOSTED BY:
THE CONNECTICUT FAIR HOUSING CENTER and TRUE COLORS
Please RSVP and contact for further info:
Cesar Aleman: caleman@ctfairhousing.org
(860) 263-0728

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Since today is Rev. Martin Luther King Day I am reposting a blog on him from 2011…

“The Promised Land?”

When Martin Luther King said “I have seen the promised land”, it was Simsbury CT... WHAT!
When Martin Luther King said “I have seen the promised land” he might have been talking of Simsbury CT. When he was a Morehouse College student, he worked two summers in Simsbury at a tobacco farm and in a letter home he wrote, "Yesterday, we didn't work, so went to Hartford," King wrote. "We really had a nice time there. I never thought that a person my race could eat anywhere, but we ate in one of the finest restaurants in Hartford." (Hartford Courant)

Students at Simsbury High created this video… Summers of Freedom: Martin Luther King Jr. in Connecticut

Summers of Freedom: the Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Connecticut from Simsbury History Scholars on Vimeo

1 comment:

Kwizgiver1/19/15, 12:15 PM
Sounds like quite an agenda! I hope some minds are informed and opened up. And that the food is good. :-)
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers