| # 1. I do not want to
ever again have to take a young woman to an "illegal
abortionist" whose medical tools included a wire
coat hanger and dirty rags. # 2. I do
not want to ever again apply for a job advertised
as "high school diploma required" and, while I
had a
Master's degree, I did not get the job because my
"degree
was not in engineering."
#3. I do not want to ever again have a
seventeen years old
girl appear at my door and say, "my mama told me to
come
over here, get naked, and do whatever I have to do
to get fifty dollars to send with my application to
college."
#4. I do not ever want to be referred to
as "my baby's
daddy."
#5. I do not want to ever again see a
mother give her nine
years old daughter condoms. The child was ignorantly
boasting of having multiple sex partners per day.
#6. I do not want to ever again walk
into a store without
enough money to buy a loaf of bread as I did at age
seven.
After I lost my nerves to steal the bread, I bought a
"nickel's worth of cookies" instead.
# 7. I do not want to ever again have
six televisions, a
satellite receiver, all local stations, and still not be
able
to receive an objective and honest broadcast or
newspaper.
#8. I do not want to ever again have a
girlfriend of six
years start to cry profusely after each love making. She
said, "I will have to stop seeing you because I
promised my mother, before she died, that I would only
date and marry
a White man."
#9. I do not want to ever again have a
nineteen years old girl
tell me, after one of my speaking engagements, that she
is
HIV positive, pregnant, and ineligible for any
governmental
housing assistance because she has an arrest record for
having been caught with a "roach."
#10. I do not want to ever again have to
work three jobs to earn below poverty living wages. My
family fell apart while I
worked to try to get my family out of poverty.
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Please fight to keep abortions legal and
rare!
Please fight to keep laws against
discrimination in employment!
Please fight to keep grants and aid
available for higher education!
Every child, mother, and father
deserves the respect to be
called by name. Help families stay families!
Please fight to end hypocrisy.
Support sex-education!
Please fight to keep children from
hunger!
Please fight to restore a free press!
Please fight to stop racism everywhere!
Please work to fight Aids and for
a social safety net for all people!
Please fight for living wages for workers!
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