Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—June 8, 2014: Hope your
weekend is proving to be a great one, free of exposure to the bookends of
hypocrisy and ignorance and after a Sunday crossword free of the drippings of
the contents of your jelly-filled donut, you enjoy the holidays, factoids, and
quotes.
1. World Oceans Day—created by the United
Nations in 2008 to honor the oceans, its products such as seafood and its
intrinsic value such a avenues of transportation of people and goods.
2. World
Brain Tumor Day—created by the Deutsche Hirntumorhilfe (German
Brain Tumor Association) in 2000 to promote research and cures for brain tumors
( circa 70,000 new cases in the U.S. each year) and support for the patients
suffering from brain tumors.
3. Race Unity Day—created
by the National Spiritual Assemble of the Bahá'ís faith to combat racial
prejudice.
4. Jelly-Filled Donut Day---celebrating a classic
tasty high caloric donut treat which can be enjoyed without guilt if Sunday is
a day to also go on a long bike ride or walk.
On this
day in:
a. 1789 James Madison introduced 12 amendments to the Constitution, 10 of which
were ratified by the States by 1791 to become our Bill of Rights without which
many of the freedoms like speech or assembly which we hold dear would not
exist.
b. 1949 in a mind of blind naming the blind moment the Edgar Hoover’s FBI
released a report naming various celebrities, including blind and deaf author
and activist Heller Keller, as members of the Communist party.
c. 1972 in one of the more vivid
images of the carnage of the Vietnam War, Associated Press photographer Frank
Ut took his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a naked 9-year old Vietnamese
girl Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road after being burned by napalm with other civilians fleeing from the
bombings. 17 surgeries later she
survived and is now a Canadian citizen active in the Kim Phuc Foundation
providing medical and psychological assistance to child victims of war.
On Race Unity Day this may be the family
tree of racial prejudice: “Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial
prejudice is still her favorite child.” Don King, noted American Afro-American
boxing promoter On the father’s side: “Prejudice
is the child of ignorance” William Hazlitt, noted 19th Century
English writer, commentator and art critic.
Now if we can only keep hypocrisy and ignorance apart we might have a
better chance to solve the problem.
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June 8, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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