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Members of the President's Commission on Arts & Humanities resignation letter to President Trump
https://www.scribd.com/document/356620864/Members-of-the-President-s-Commission-on-Arts-Humanities-resignation-letter-to-President-Trump#from_embed 

The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

August 18, 2017

Dear Mr. President:

Reproach and censure in the strongest possible terms are necessary following your support of the hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans in Charlottesville.  The false equivalencies you push cannot stand. The Administration’s refusal to quickly and unequivocally condemn the cancer of hatred only further emboldens those who wish  America ill. We cannot sit idly by, the way that your West Wing advisors have, without speaking out against your words and actions. We are members of the President’s Committee on the Arts   and the Humanities (PCAH). The Committee was created in 1982 under President Reagan to advise the White House on cultural issues. We were hopeful that continuing to serve in the PCAH would allow us to focus on the important work the committee does with your federal partners and the private sector to address, initiate, and support key policies and programs in the arts and humanities for all Americans. Effective immediately, please accept our resignation from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

Elevating any group that threatens and discriminates on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, disability, orientation, background, or identity is un-American. We have fought slavery, segregation, and internment. We must learn from our rich and often painful history. The unified fabric of America is made by patriotic individuals from backgrounds as vast as the nation is strong. In our service to the American people, we have experienced this first-hand as we traveled and built the Turnaround Arts education program, now in many urban and rural schools across the country from Florida to Wisconsin.

Speaking truth to power is never easy, Mr. President. But it is our role as commissioners on the PCAH to do so. Art is about inclusion. The Humanities include a vibrant free press. You have attacked both. You released a budget which eliminates arts and culture agencies. You have threatened nuclear war while gutting diplomacy funding. The Administration pulled out of the Paris agreement, filed an amicus brief undermining the Civil Rights Act, and attacked our brave trans service members. You have subverted equal protections, and are committed to banning Muslims and refugee women & children from our great country. This does not unify the nation we all love. We know the importance of open and free dialogue through our  work in the cultural diplomacy realm, most recently with the first-ever US Government arts and culture delegation to Cuba, a country without the same First Amendment protections  we enjoy here. Your words and actions push us all further away from the freedoms we are guaranteed.

Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions. We took a patriotic oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values. Your values are not  American values. We must be better than this. We are better than this. If this is not clear to you, then we call on you to resign your office, too.  

Thank you, 

Paula Boggs
Chuck Close
Richard Cohen
Fred Goldring
Howard L. Gottlieb
 
Vicki Kennedy Jhumpa
Lahiri Anne Luzzatto
Thom Mayne Kalpen
Modi (Kal Penn)
Eric Ortner
Ken Solomon
Caroline Taylor
Jill Cooper Udall
 
Andrew Weinstein
John Lloyd Young

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p.s. 

「此事不芝麻」又一例,08/23/2017起床,開電視及pc,燒壺咖啡再坐下這一日之晨的醒腦慣例,讀到這又一例的「藏頭」信,信中每一段落第一字合起來是IMPEACH,與十八日RESIST異曲同工的有志一同;希望這下流、不合格的自戀狂下台的時候早日來到。

下面是引自HUFFPOST的報導State Department Science Envoy Quits With Not-So-Secret Message For Trump: 'IMPEACH' 以及推特上的辭職信下: 

Daniel M Kammen @dan_kammen 24h24 hours ago  

Mr. President, I am resigning as Science Envoy. Your response to Charlottesville enables racism, sexism, & harms our country and planet.

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Sir Norton 魯賓遜,救命!
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2017/09/15 13:36
希、史、毛魔循同一軌徑,民智雖百年稍長,但進二退一,多數人仍選擇痛痛苦的自虐。
nothing special(littlezone) 於 2017-09-15 23:22 回覆:

Sir Norton的這句話,NS感嘆。
關於「多數人仍選擇痛痛苦的自虐」,我看到的是(A)自知和(B)不自知的選擇自虐兩種路線。(B)路人馬眾多而盲從,需要教育,但顯然的是教育無效(依從古至今的歷史而得的結論);(A)路人則是危害社會的,但這些人總是得意自己的精明,以大眾導師為傲,而不在乎他人的流血與犧牲,是冷血的psychopathy;遠的不說,百年來有「希、史、毛魔」,近年來的,中東的Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi稱得是魔頭,David Duke算得上是美國恐怖主義的頭頭之一(在我看來Steve Bannon也離恐怖分子的定義不遠)、、、根本是哪國、哪時沒有,何處不無有 【其實,台獨份子不也是上述的(A)屬&(B)屬這兩類人種,是多數的盲從,與在上位的少數psychopathy】。

感嘆的是,看到這些後果,卻是無力之苦。


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2017/08/27 09:10
哎,這樣的反動表示幾個不爭的事實,總之仁義道德建立在銀根金基,沒優渥的生計即沒禮義廉恥。
nothing special(littlezone) 於 2017-08-27 11:57 回覆:

「仁義道德建立在銀根金基」& 「沒優渥的生計即沒禮義廉恥」言之成理。Hold on,那,有禮義廉恥之心乃是因優渥的生計嗎?!! 可是,扁家生計優厚得很,不但在台灣豪宅連棟,陳公子在美國留學時,宅邸也是以multple計數的;不僅鴿蛋大小的翡翠、鑽石無數、櫃子裡的現鈔更是得用運鈔車才搬得動、、、這一家可是「有優渥的生計就是欠缺禮義廉恥」得很ㄋㄝ!!

川普一家享受金錢的榮華,可從來沒用之於社會之上,離「禮義廉恥」非常遙遠得很。金錢只是讓他們製造更多的奢華而已。

當然,不是所有的大亨都如川普一家般的道德低落,還是有大亨們redistribute,如蓋茲或Zuckerberg等回饋社會 (不論是否心甘情願)。

不受約束的大亨總統越來越反動,也根本不在乎言(譬如Charlottesville事件後的幾次記者會的反覆)行(特赦有違反司法行為但是還在審判中的白人至上警長)、標竿,他的表現道地的是種族主義、白人至上,不只是道德低落,甚且是無道德的!!!

我為這人無視法律的規範,孜意干涉司法,傷害三權分立的作為而憂;這種種已經是超越道德的平台,更別提他那七歲小兒般的脾性,三軍統帥大權在手,真與金正恩比核武幹起來,世界各國都吃不了兜著走。

nothing special(littlezone) 於 2017-08-27 12:04 回覆:
所以,我絕對是resist,甚且希望他被impeach。

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2017/08/22 14:47
Seriously, I don't think Trump can last his full term. Let's wait and see.
nothing special(littlezone) 於 2017-08-22 19:57 回覆:

He had been the worse among all 16 Republican candidates, ever. This shows the defect of American Electorial System.

Some said Elitism is not good in perspective for democracy; from Trump's example proves my point of without elits controlling of the government, democracy goes to populism which turns so bad to hurt the society, ironically.