Keith Olberman's Special Comment Is VERY POWERFUL Tonight

[THUNDER HANDS]

he seems like he's going to cry.

[WeDidIt]

1. Damn

Just...

damn.

[crappyjazz]

2. He's making me cry

very impassioned and dead on

[Tatiana]

3. I'm just sitting here sobbing. Love. Humanity. That's what this was about. n/t

[Guava Jelly]

4. Thank you Keith.

:applause:

[tomnjoy]

5. God Bless Keith ... so damn powerful

Absolutely moving and brought me to tears (and just about had him in tears, too, it seemed). This was one of his best EVER, in my opinion.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. It certainly did sound as if he were going to break down.

[Ryano42]

7. Keith nailed it...

Gay straight whatever...it's about LOVE.

Thank you...

[Janice325]

8. I'm still crying.

Thank you, Keith.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. It was very powerful.

This should be played to every person that voted for this Prop. 8 in California. I also noticed that Keith mentioned how Black and Whites couldn't marry before 1967 in some states. Good for him for pointing that out and he did it without putting blame on the 70% of Blacks that voted for it in California.

Good job, Keith! :thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

10. Amazing and powerful special comment.

It really, really touched me.

[gauguin57]

11. I'm away from the TV ... what'd he say???

Someone give me the highlights. (I'll watch later on youtube)

[phrigndumass]

12. Text of his comments here ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7845381

:hi:

[gauguin57]

20. Thank you so much. I am crying in the library.

I will watch it when I get home. Thank you for linking the text post!

[phrigndumass]

21. You bet ... link to video here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x238120

:hi:

[IndianaGreen]

13. Some background on anti-miscegenation laws

Progress -- which was God's great work, or was perhaps the real name of God -- could be defeated by inter-racial marriage.

The opponents of mixed marriages dispensed with fine distinctions; they opposed any mixing of races or genes, which they called miscegenation. And they wrote laws to ban the practice.

In all, 30 states passed anti-miscegenation laws that stayed on the books until the advent of the civil rights movement. Of these, 16 kept their laws on the books until the Supreme Court threw them out in 1967: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Another 14 states passed anti-miscegenation laws, but repealed them in the 1950s or 1960s: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.

For example, Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 made it "unlawful for any white person in this state to marry any save a white person, or a person with no other admixture of blood than white and American Indian." In writing the statute, one of the challenges that the Virginia racists faced was their own proud history. According to a publication from the Registrar of the State Bureau of Vital Statistics, the law had to take account of "the desire of all to recognize as an integral and honored part of the white race the descendants of John Rolfe and Pocahontas." Because of the Pocahontas loophole, you could have a little Indian blood (one great-great-grandparent) and still be counted as white. But "every person in whom there is ascertainable any negro blood shall be deemed and taken to be a colored person."

The law automatically voided all marriages between whites and blacks. The law prohibited leaving the state to get married and then returning, and specified that the "fact of their cohabitation here as man and wife shall be evidence of their marriage." The penalty was stiff: "If any white person intermarry with a colored person, or any colored person intermarry with a white person, he shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years."

Virginia judges continued to defend anti-miscegenation laws for decades. In 1955, the State Supreme Court of Appeals decided that the laws served legitimate purposes, including: "to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens," and to prevent "the corruption of blood," "a mongrel breed of citizens," and "the obliteration of racial pride."

http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap07.html

[jenmito]

14. K&5th R!

He seemed more passionate about tonight's special comment than others! You GO, Keith!

[Mz Pip]

15. He really captured my feelings.

I never really got why people were so threatened by Gay people getting married. I've been married for nearly 34 years and don't believe I need a Constitutional Amendment protecting my marriage. That's completely up to Mr Pip and me. Government, churches, and people I do not know, do not want to know and do not need to know do not need to trouble themselves over my heterosexual marriage.

I just never understood why anyone should care what another committed couple chose to do.

I willhave a hard time dealig with the Mormon family down the street. We have lived on the same block for nearly 25 years. Our kids grew up together. We were never friends but were friendly when we ran into each other on the street or in town. I can barely drive by their house without wanting to flip them off. Them and their damn "Yes on 8. Protect Families" yard signs. :puke:

[Left Is Write]

19. This question of Keith's should be addressed to them:

"What if somebody passed a law that said you couldn't marry?"

[Left Is Write]

16. I thought he looked near tears too.

It was very powerful. I noticed he didn't do his usual close-of-show schtick, leaving his powerful statement by itself instead.

[mzmolly]

17. I've had the program on pause,

I look forward.

Off to grab the Kleenex. :yoiks:

[Mid_FL_voter]

18. It was quite powerful

I'm glad someone posted this. Be sure to find a video or watch it when it airs again later tonite.

[ErinBerin84]

22. that was great...made me cry.