IT IS UP TO US. IT IS UP TO YOU.
Marian Wright Edelman said it all in this poster at the Chicago Cultural Center. And we need to hear this more than ever.
We are at a point in American history where, even before the black boxes and flight recorders are pulled from the bottom of the Potomac, before the affected families were even able to grieve, Grover Cleveland II was blaming a recent mid-air collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter over Washington DC not only on the helicopter pilot, but on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Forget the fact that there have been aircraft collisions in the United States long before now, both midair and on the ground, at a time when the only jobs women and people of color could get in an air traffic control tower were sweeping and mopping the floors, emptying the wastebaskets and ashtrays, and making coffee. Grand Canyon, 1956, Pacoima, 1957, Clark County, Nevada and Brunswick, Maryland, both 1958, and New York, 1960, among others.
There hasn't been a fatal mid-air collision between two commercial passenger planes here since 1960, and a passenger jet and a private plane since 1978. A stellar air traffic control record.
When asked how he knew the collision was based on DEI, he snapped, "I have common sense."
But I have to admit, Roy Cohn taught him well. Keep hammering home an untrue message, every chance you get, and eventually people will believe it.
IT IS UP TO US. IT IS UP TO YOU.
Marian Wright Edelman said it all in this poster at the Chicago Cultural Center. And we need to hear this more than ever.
We are at a point in American history where, even before the black boxes and flight recorders are pulled from the bottom of the Potomac, before the affected families were even able to grieve, Grover Cleveland II was blaming a recent mid-air collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter over Washington DC not only on the helicopter pilot, but on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Forget the fact that there have been aircraft collisions in the United States long before now, both midair and on the ground, at a time when the only jobs women and people of color could get in an air traffic control tower were sweeping and mopping the floors, emptying the wastebaskets and ashtrays, and making coffee. Grand Canyon, 1956, Pacoima, 1957, Clark County, Nevada and Brunswick, Maryland, both 1958, and New York, 1960, among others.
There hasn't been a fatal mid-air collision between two commercial passenger planes here since 1960, and a passenger jet and a private plane since 1978. A stellar air traffic control record.
When asked how he knew the collision was based on DEI, he snapped, "I have common sense."
But I have to admit, Roy Cohn taught him well. Keep hammering home an untrue message, every chance you get, and eventually people will believe it.