Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: I Won't Back Down

Friday, March 08, 2024

I Won't Back Down

But they did, a school district in Texas back down and will allow the play Laramie to go on, I wrote about it on Sunday but now they changed their minds.

Timber Creek High School's performance of "The Laramie Project" will go on after all, district says
Students had lobbied to continue the performance despite school leaders previously nixing "The Laramie Project" for another play.
WFAA
Rachel Snyder
March 6, 2024

The production of “The Laramie Project” will go on at Timber Creek High School in Keller ISD in May after all, a district spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.

“The Laramie Project” details a Wyoming town’s struggle with the murder of a gay 21-year-old. Roles were cast for the play in January, but school leaders said the week of Feb. 26 that the students would perform a different play. Students, including at a recent school board meeting, had lobbied to continue the production as scheduled.

“Keller ISD’s administration recognizes the time and effort that has been put into the adapted version of ‘The Laramie Project’ by students and staff members,” Keller ISD Superintendent Tracy Johnson said in an email Wednesday. “Upon further consideration of this, the administration has decided to proceed as previously planned with the May performance of ‘The Laramie Project.’”

This is good news the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998 lead to the passing of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009.

I’m home!

I have been up to my brother’s and sister-in-law’s condo in Maine all week as you read this I’m somewhere between here and there. I haven’t visited them there since BC… before COVID. It was nice to quality time plus I got to used my culinary skills to make Lobster Newberg for them.

The weather didn’t co-operate. I went from spring to winter and it rained everyday but it didn’t dampen my spirit.

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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

Friday, March 08, 2024

I Won't Back Down

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