Bambu, you think that you have it hard as a white, Christian man, just imagine how hard it would be to be Jewish. Here is a post that Paul Stanley of KISS put on Facebook four hours ago...
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Paul Stanley
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I grew up in a household in which my mother as a young girl fled Berlin with her parents to escape the Holocaust that loomed. They later fled Amsterdam for the same reason and with effort, luck and I believe the grace of God, came to America to pursue the dream this country offered. My dad is a first generation American Jew whose parents emigrated from Poland. My early remembrances as a child were of my parents friends with numbers tattooed on their arms who bore witness to atrocities that 6 million others would never be able to speak of. Mothers, fathers, children and infants all tortured and systematically murdered for their proud heritage and choice of worship. Shockingly, I have met holocaust deniers over the years who either find the magnitude of persecution of Jews over centuries incomprehensible or would rather because of some twisted agenda choose to minimize or rationalize it. Say what you will but now is a time for us all to put aside divisive, hate filled rhetoric on all sides and realize that we will all reap what we all sow. My heart goes out to all the innocent victims of not only this slaughter in Pittsburgh but of all hate filled crimes against the innocent everywhere. We are now in a frightening and dangerous time for society. But there is always hope in realization. We all have power. We created this. We must end it. All of us.
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When I was a kid, KISS was my favorite band, and all of these years later I still love them, and I respect them.
Paul is Jewish, and Gene is Jewish too, he was born in Israel. I am not sure about Ace and Peter.
KISS rose to the very top of the music business, and once they hit the top they stayed there. They are still selling out arenas around the world.
I agree with Paul, we have it within us to create a better world where no one is persecuted in the USA because of religion, or race, or anything.
We have equality in our laws, we need to practice equality in our lives.
We have the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which guarantees equal opportunity for employment, and we have the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which guarantees equal opportunity on housing. So we already have that covered. People need to know that they have rights, and people need to stand up and fight for the rights which people already have. And for instance, when they ask for your race on a job application, you do not have to fill that out, it violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The same with housing, you do not need to list your race on a housing application, as it violates the Civil Rights Act of 1968. And of course from the very beginning we declared that all men are created equal in our Declaration of Independence.
People need to stand up and fight for the rights that we already have. And we need to treat people equally in law as well as in practice.
And "stop and frisk" by police officers is unconstitutional, and police searching your car for no reason is unconstitutional, and cops checking your identification to see if you are a legal citizen is unconstitutional, etc. We need to stand up and fight for the rights that we already have. You cannot stop someone because they speak Spanish and have brown skin, and check them for papers, which they are doing on the Greyhound buses, they are not allowed to do that, just like with a limousine, they cannot board the bus without a warrant. We need equality in law and in practice.
I support equality for women, and for all people, and we already have that, we just need to stand up and fight for what we already have. And we must treat each other equally in law and in practice, so let it be written, so let it be done.
And I support equal pay for equal work, we need to make that happen.
Like Paul said, we have the power.
Salute,
Tony V.
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