DNC, America needs another Barbara Jordan 'common destiny' speech

[TexasTowelie]

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"A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers," Barbara Jordan said in her keynote address to the Democratic National Convention no July 12, 1976, "when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny."

As the Democrats gather in Philadelphia they would be wise to avoid rancor and divisiveness and revisit Jordan's words delivered decades earlier at another time of profound trouble for the nation.

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Barbara Jordan, who died just two weeks before her 60th birthday in 1996, was a politician, educator, teacher, lawyer and champion of civil rights. She broke down the barriers of race and gender in a distinguished list of American "firsts."

She was the first African-American since Reconstruction to be elected to the Texas Senate, the first female African-American from the South to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Read more: http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/07/america_needs_another_barbara_jordan_this_year_opinion.html

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1. Thank you for Barbara Jordan's Keynote Speech from 1976 and the

her history, TexasT!

[TexasTowelie]

2. You're welcome

and it was a great editorial, particularly after what has transpired in the past few days.

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3. Yes, it's perfect! Maybe we will..