KLRU
A Moment of Silence for Shirley Chisholm
RECEIVED Tue., Jan. 4, 2005
Dear Editor,
I'd like to have a moment of silence for Shirley "unbought and unbossed" Chisholm, the first black U.S. legislator, who recently died. She was 80. It was her observation that politics was ruled by a few fat, rich white men who were bought and paid for. The name of Tom DeLay is easy to roll off the tongue as a more recent offending example. What ever happened to the freethinkers, other than the crackpots such as Ron Paul? I'm going to ask for a moment of silence, but that's not like being a "dittohead" or the Bush league groupthink. Democracy just lost a little more of its soul, people. I guess that if you really like plutocratic federalism, this would be a good day for you. Oh happy day!
Oh happy day, when Shirley walked.
I'd like to have a moment of silence for Shirley "unbought and unbossed" Chisholm, the first black U.S. legislator, who recently died. She was 80. It was her observation that politics was ruled by a few fat, rich white men who were bought and paid for. The name of Tom DeLay is easy to roll off the tongue as a more recent offending example. What ever happened to the freethinkers, other than the crackpots such as Ron Paul? I'm going to ask for a moment of silence, but that's not like being a "dittohead" or the Bush league groupthink. Democracy just lost a little more of its soul, people. I guess that if you really like plutocratic federalism, this would be a good day for you. Oh happy day!
Oh happy day, when Shirley walked.
Clifford "Sam" Wells
Leander
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