I want YOU to stop being AFRAID

[sheshe2]

Equality for all.
No, it won't ever be easy, yet nothing worth having ever is.

[Fumesucker]

1. Maybe we can arrange to have National Brotherhood Week last all year

[rurallib]

15. Tom Lehrer - always in season!

[Jesus Malverde]

2. Fear no more, the times are a changing.

One day we'll live free and no longer in fear. Fear of losing jobs, fear of being raided, your dogs shot, your children kidnapped by the state. Your land stolen, and maybe even your life lost. Fear no more, the times are a changing.

Legal cannabis is here. The forces of darkness are on the run.

[HappyMe]

3. k&r

I'm am afraid of no woman or man.

[In_The_Wind]

4. K&R

[Sissyk]

5. K&R

Seems like I'm kicking and reccing your post a lot lately, sheshe2.

Thanks for bringing them here.

[sheshe2]

10. LOL!

Sorry, sometimes I have a loud mouth, Sissyk.

You are welcome and and thanks.

[mercymechap]

6. I'm not afraid....

but with this gun-ownership craze, conservatives encouraging everybody to own and carry a gun, and considering how angry some of them happen to be, I am concerned.

[reformist2]

7. To stop being afraid of the "other", is to stop being a Republican.

[Aldo Leopold]

8. Nice one. Thanks for the reminder!

[WillyT]

9. K & R !!!

[sheshe2]

11. Thanks WillyT!

[Quayblue]

12. K&R

I love your optimism

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. Never was. Never will be.

[Jamaal510]

14. Try telling that to

the YouTube crowd. Every time I read comments on videos about race or about women, for example, it feels like I hopped in a time machine backwards.

[PumpkinAle]

16. I was talking to a young sophomore at the local

university today, he said he doesn't have many friends and people seem to be afraid of him. I couldn't understand why - he was eloquent, funny, obviously intelligent and if I was 40 years younger ...........

Then it dawned on me the color of his skin. This beautiful young man was being vilified for no other reason than his skin color. It makes my blood boil!!

This is 2014 why are some Americans so god damned backwards in their thinking of fellow Americans and other cultures in general.

[reACTIONary]

17. Great picture...

...could you provide a link to it?

[sheshe2]

19. Sorry no.

Found it on FB.

[paleotn]

18. Damn right. (nt)

[William769]

20. Due to circumstances beyond my control

#2 and #4 scare the hell out of me.

I will list the Religions & Countries if need be.

[sheshe2]

21. The poster she held was a long time ago, she is black and she is a woman.

Two things that are still considered a minority after so many years.

I know exactly what and who you are talking about, William. What is happening there appalls me. It saddens me. It breaks my heart.

If I had the power to make everything right tomorrow, I would. Sadly I can not.

Yet the message is really about fear. Stop fearing what you do not understand. That encompasses all of us that are persecuted for who we are, the color of our skin and the ones that we love.

I too want it to end.

[William769]

22. I understand completely the message in the picture.

(thats why I recommended the op ).

What I wrote is just my way of taking the message and expanding on it.

And I know for a fact that if you had the power you would not even wait till tomorrow you would do it instantly. Thats because of the person you are and don't let anyone tell you any differently.

[sheshe2]

23. Sigh, I know William.

The last one William, that is the color of all of us. We are all in our struggles, yet we are such amazingly bright bold beautiful colors. Every single one of us!

It's our time.

Thank you~

[csziggy]

24. I don't think the picture is very old - maybe a year or two

At the lower left corner is a person in a "V" mask. At this link is a picture of possibly the same person in the mask holding the same sign: http://twicsy.com/i/JQYf2b That picture seems to have been posted 07-22-2012.

Other than that, it is a timeless message. Thank you for posting it!

[Cha]

25. KICK!

[Notafraidtoo]

26. Confirmation of sterotypes...

Confirmation of stereotypes is the quickest way into a fools mind and once you are in the mind of that fool there is money to be made. IMO shaming hateful people is the only real weapon we have against mass media capitol marketing.


It needs to be uncomfortable to be willfully ignorant in the US.

[daleanime]

27. K&R....