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Emma Gonzalez (name corrected)!!!!!!! she is a powerhouse!!!
jpak
(41,757 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)feel her pain. This is profound powerful stuff.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)She is a power to be reckoned with!
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)..Did Emma give a speech?
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)She spoke for a little bit, then was silent for the time it took the shooter to kill and maim her fellow students at Parkland - all in all, 6 minutes and 20 seconds. It was a defining moment.
cilla4progress
(24,729 posts)In the world at that moment...
This is a non-violence movement.
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)I watched it...it was incredible!!!
nolabear
(41,960 posts)NatBurner
(2,640 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Speechless.
Such power and such strength!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)malaise
(268,981 posts)Silence is scary for some folks. That was high drama.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)She kicked ass.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,243 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)So reminiscent of the 1960's Campus Rallies against the War.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)Satch59
(1,353 posts)These kids...no words... Now Jennifer Hudson singing The Times They are a Changing...yikes, perfect...
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)If you want people to remember it.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)I messed up. Got it Gonzalez. Typographical error changed.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)But I appreciate the enthusiasm - she is awesome.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)She has the strength, dignity, intelligence and emotional power that never accrues to some adults, at the age of 18. I truly hope she is our future.
Baitball Blogger
(46,704 posts)I hope they can keep their passion through the drumming experiences of adulthood.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)They are responding.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)Go Emma...change the world!
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Falconetti in Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc
dameatball
(7,397 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)I see her in a leadership role in our Capitol in the future, maybe even to the highest office. She is not intimidated by anyone, including the Dump.
You go girl! We've got your back.
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targetpractice
(4,919 posts)Thanks for reminding us.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)I made a typo and corrected it.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)We all do it.
RightiswrongTn
(92 posts)Everyone knows!!! Wow, what a girl. All of the MSD kids. Don't have the words, but y'all know what I mean.
onecent
(6,096 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Why keep picking?
Great top post.
Sunsky
(1,737 posts)It's Gonzalez with a z at the end.
Honestly, I don't give a damn. Sometimes I have to shake my head at some of our priorities here. I wonder how we claim to be inclusive here, yet some of us seem to lack the understanding that English may not be a poster's first language (not saying this applies to the OP just a general observation).
Now back to the sentiment of the OP...
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BiminiTwisted
(102 posts)Sunsky
(1,737 posts)Her silence represents those who had a voice but speak no more due to gun violence. I wept throughout her silence. Very powerful.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)She'll do something great, if things go her way.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)But Ms. Gonzalez has displayed the sort of mettle that will prevail regardless of whether or not "things go her way."
She, and many of these other young people-- Naomi Wader, David Hogg, Kassidy Fisher to name only a few-- are truly going to make America great. This greatness will be moral and compassionate and inclusive. It wil not be the sham of strength that Trump and his ilk interpret as "greatness."
Today, I am as proud to be an American as I ever have been since November 9, 2016.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Women have last names, too.
DFW
(54,372 posts)I'm glad she is out there now. Hers is a powerful voice that will not be ignored. That is why the NRA and Fox Noise are mounting the campaign against her and the movement even as the big march is going on. This time, their "now is not the time" didn't hold back the tide. This was once too many, and now IS the time. In 2020, almost all those young people out there who won't be eligible to vote this November WILL be eligible to vote in 2 years. Will they vote? Oh, yeah. First time eligible? They'll vote. And they will remember which incumbent said what. This generation has their every word saved on their smart phones. All the NRA's money and all the NRA's bought politicians can't reverse that.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Emma Gonzalez is so badass.
At first, I wasn't sure why she went silent. But after I heard a timer go off at her podium, I knew. Then she confirmed that the time she was up at the podium, including her short speech, totalled 6 minutes 20 seconds--the time it took the shooter to slaughter 17 of her classmates and forever change the rest. So powerful.
Damn. She has me in tears.
lostnfound
(16,178 posts)Would it last 17 minutes? No. It was a lesson, in just how long 6 minutes and 20 seconds must have been to those hearing the sounds. And how many lives changed in that time.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)They didn't. For over 4 minutes of silence. The cameras scanned between Emma Gonzalez' face to faces in the audience and back. Pure emotion. It was amazing.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,602 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)malaise
(268,981 posts)right now
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)the private window of suffering endured by thousands of mothers who will never be able to make sense of what happened to their daughters and sons. Emma Gonzalez, and the movement she is a part of is truly the best of our nations future.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)Gothmog
(145,195 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)All the rage, frustration, and determination were there.
Peace
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)is palpable.