Democracy and Equality is Still Alive in America
8PM Castro District of San Francisco, CA on the historic day of May 15, 2008, a day of liberation for equality and the legacy of Harvey Milk.
What's suprising are the crowd merriers had a contingency of young liberals, straight men and women who believed in the sacred virtues of marriage but liberal as to what equality is all about.
As any journalist, you have to deliver the facts from where the actual facts are indeed happening. Beer on brown bags, hugging and street dancing with festive music that one can just be amazed especially if you were not there during the era of the GLBT icon Harvey Milk.
For some it could be artificially be emotionally exaggerating but only if you indeed get into the person's inner self would one understand what is it point in all of this.
For decades, this issue has been a very sensitive subject as it relates to politics but all the issues of human rights, activism, racial and sexual discrimination, gender and marriage equality affect the psycho-social being of the human race and Californians in general.
Four years ago, pessimissim arose towards a young democratic politician name Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco who by the way is very much a straight man and good looking. But his passion, his determination and youth had pros and cons to endure what he believed is what this is all about.
For people like me and Gavin, we might be considered the last of the baby boomers but for us it is very historical because it is a generation where people like Martin Lurther King, Harvey Milk, Rev. Cecil Williams and John F. Kennedy became heroes of our younger boomer generation.
What's suprising is that a nation and state of immigrants like California where people of different race, culture and backgrounds of whatever nationality, gender and status are very deep rooted Americans.
Thus all the sense of the environmentalism, activism and equality not only signifies that a morally conscious conservative republican California Supreme Court is indeed a court of the people. A court that still values the non-politicizing principles of what San Francisco or St. Francis of Assisi was all about.
Does it make sense now that inspite of the foreclosures, high real estate prices and terrible economic hardships that people keeps wanting to move to this great city? San Francisco is a sister city of Zurich, Switzerland but this what makes it's Anglo-European appeal to the latino community. They know that compassion still lives in America, a great nation, land of the free.
Come November, Washington's political landscape will change eventually for the healing to start, for the compassion to prevail and more than ever for America to become again the center of attention of what it is all about.
Yes, democracy and equality is still alive in California, in America and the truth of why there is a supreme being more mightier than men indeed.
God Bless America!
Former APEC Youth Representative 1996-98
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