Photo du Jour 516
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The Village Project Youth Choir singing for the 23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor and Community Breakfast this morning at the San Francisco Hilton
There weren't as many stars this year, but the turnout for the event was huge nevertheless. More, after the jump.
Some of last year's guests couldn't make it. But at least one speaker from 2007, Senator Carole Migden, managed to come back this year for a short stemwinder.
Jackie Speier with The Architect Alex Tourk in the background.
The exciting guest speaker for 2008 was Jackie Speier, (probably) your next representative in the U.S. Congress. Her competition? Well, according to Pravda(!) it's Robert Barrows, the owner of a Burlingame public relations firm and inventor of the “Video Enhanced Gravemarker”, and Yul Kwon, a resident of San Mateo, California, a former legislative aide to Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman and the winner of Survivor: Cook Islands.
Local Yul Kwon, former Steve Westly for Governor worker and Homeland Security bill drafter, was one of People magazine's Sexiest Men for 2006. But he'll need more than that on his resume to challenge the formidable Jackie. Everything is going her way, so far.
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For all the good that Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall and Dr King did for black folks and humankind at the risk of great personal harm including imprisonment, torture and death itself, modern day black folks have erased much of that progress by allowing the criminal element to hide within their neighborhoods, drug dealing to infiltrate their communities and violence to run unabated. You ask me who is to blame for the problems in the black community today and I say it is the weakness and split of the black community itself. Do not blame anyone else for the problems you face. Fix it and make MLK day a worthwhile holiday where people actually respond to it and see it for the struggles and triumphs of all Americans, blacks included. Stand up, take part and fix it.
Every time I make it to work without getting panhandled to, I say a silent little thank you to Alex Tourk.