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egbertowillies

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Fri Jul 13, 2012, 06:20 PM Jul 2012

Award Winning ‘The Help’ Actress Viola Davis’ NAACP Closing Speech In Houston -The Highlight

Viola Davis was the featured speaker of the NAACP closing dinner in Houston, Texas.. Let me be honest, when I realized that the featured speaker was an actress I was a bit disappointed.

I have nothing against entertainers but sometimes it seems we give entertainers too much reverence on issues generally out of the scope of their knowledge. This have a tendency to minimize the achievements of many that have studied and toiled as they receive little recognition from fields and issues they are more equipped to address.

Inasmuch as the above being true, Viola Davis testimony simply floored me. She was the right person to deliver the message she delivered on why every black person or anyone who had been denied the right to vote had the duty, obligation, and responsibility to do so.

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