Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: In The Spotlight

Thursday, April 23, 2020

In The Spotlight

When we are in the spotlight it sometimes causes the swamp things to crawl out from the swamp.

#Respect4Rachel circulates social media for Dr. Rachel Levine
WLVR FM
By Jen Rehill and Jim Deegan
April 17, 2020

In many ways, Dr. Rachel Levine [Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary] has become the face of the COVID-19 crisis in Pennsylvania.

The health secretary is the state’s top doctor and has become a fixture with daily news briefings, soundbites on TV and posts across social media. But as WLVR’s Jen Rehill reports, that’s where things have taken an ugly turn.

Secretary Levine is one of only a few openly transgender government officials in the US. These days she’s holding news conferences six days a week – answering reporter questions and hammering home safety messages.

“My mask protects you, and your mask protects me.”

But not everyone likes her message or rather the messenger.

The response to her videos on social media has included hateful and bigoted comments.

Her friends and supporters have come out to call for the LGBTQ+ community to speak up for her and have created a hashtag – “#respect4rachel”

I came across this Netflix’s documentary on two baseball players who were on the real life “League of Their Own” and they were lesbian lovers.

Netflix reveals a remarkable untold love story in the trailer for A Secret Love
AV Club
By Britt Hayes
April 22, 2020

A League Of Their Own is one of the greatest sports movies of all time, but hiding within the true story that inspired that film is another, equally remarkable one: A romantic relationship between two women that remained secret for over six decades. That story is the subject of the new Netflix documentary A Secret Love, which debuts on April 29. Directed by Chris Bolan (Billions), executive produced by Jason Blum, and produced by Ryan Murphy, A Secret Love explores the lives of Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel, whose relationship was kept hidden—even from their loved ones—until very recently. This trailer is basically daring you not to cry (and Tom Hanks would like to remind you that there is no crying in baseball)

I think that I might breakdown and watch it.

3 comments:

Connie4/23/20, 12:30 PM
...Or you may watch it and break down? :-)
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Diana_CT4/23/20, 12:56 PM
You got it backwards, it is "I might breakdown and watch it" since I don't watch Netflix
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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