Bono NAACPI thought I'd offer up
this link for you to view if you are interested. It's a YouTube capture
of Bono accepting the Chairman's Award at the NAACP awards show earlier
this month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6P6v4bNxJQ
Maggie and I disconnected cable last month, in the interest of saving
a few duckets that, when combined with savings from disconnecting the
land line, will add up to a mortgage payment in a year's time. Our
channels are thus limited, but we manage to gloss our eyes in front of
the boob tube nevertheless.
So we're laying in bed, a rare night together, and the NAACPs are on,
and I'm drifting off, but I know that Bono's going to be on. Maggie
stirs me when the Irishman - a rare Irishman who has been awarded the
knighthood of Ireland's nemesis, England - comes to focus.
Bono grew up the son of a Protestant and a Catholic in a time when
the Orange and Green lines were drawn heavy across the streets of
Dublin. He'd as likely row as sing. And in his involvement with music,
he and his mates found inspiration in a preacher that led the Civil
Rights movement of America, one Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights - the right to be equal among the community where
you live - was born in the southern United States. Today, a similar
movement is gaining momentum. The right to equal access to health care
across our shrinking globe is becoming fashionable. Whether it is
fashionable or not is irrelevant. Rather, it is a certainty. Shouldn't
we all be able to take advantage of the advances of medicine and healthy
life, regardless of our locality? Civil Rights still has struggles, and
I think it's initial struggles find a contemporary analogy in the rights
to health care movement of the first decade of our 21st century.
Bono stated the same, and he got a whole bunch of people in the NAACP
riled and excited by the way he said it.
Have a look and listen at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENp7c6TtBHk
