Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Last Night...

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Last Night...

...last night I went to a vigil at the Capitol for Nex Benedict.

I want you to stop and think for a while about the event. I wrote about their murder here and all around the nation vigils were held for them, her brutal death at the hands of bullies.

Fox 61 reported,

CT LGBTQ+ community honors Nex Benedict at State Capitol vigil
Benedict’s death comes months after Oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill that required students to use the bathroom based on their gender assigned at birth.
By Jake Garcia
February 28, 2024

More than 100 members of Connecticut’s LGBTQIA+ community gathered inside the State Capitol Wednesday for a candlelight vigil to honor Nex Benedict.

The Governor assured members of the LGBTQIA+ community that they belong in Connecticut. “We're not going to be that bad village. We're going to be Connecticut; we're going to stand for each and every one of you. We love you for who you are,” said Lamont.

How many governor’s would have attended a vigil for her? He not only was there there were a number of other legislators there and the governor spoke about her death? Somehow I don’t think any Republicans would be at any vigils for them.

Here in Connecticut we have laws against bullying in schools and the state law requires the schools to report bullying incidents to the CT Department of Education each year. When I was on the Safe School Coalition run by the DoEd some districts reported zero incidents all year, we didn’t believe they reports, I believed the school systems were white washing the bullying to keep their districts from sounding bad… no news is good news!

There were a number of speakers last night and many of the speakers talked about bullying in schools

I have been avoiding driving at night but a friend offered to drive so that I could go. I saw a number of friends that I haven’t seen since I retired from Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition.

I snapped a few pictures during it but I used my cheap phone to take them and they are slightly out of focus.

P.S. Not all Fox outlets are conservative, Fox 61 has a trans producers.

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Quotes

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

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Last Night...

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