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City of Ocoee
City Commission Meeting Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Public Comment - that I plan to read at tonight's meeting
To: Mayor, Mayor Pro Tern, and Commissioners
From: Jim Moyer, Citizen of Ocoee and Lifelong Anti-racist
On this 2020 Election Day and during this weeklong City of Ocoee
Educational Symposium to honor All Victims and Descendants of the 1920
Election Day Massacre, I would like to share the following:
1. My race is human and there is no other way that I know of to accurately
classify us homo sapiens. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/comparing-
genetic-similarity-between-humans-and-other-things-2016-5
2. Social and environmental differences among human beings are real.
However, these differences such as appearance, size, and gender are far
outweighed by the 99% or more similarities among humans.
3. I have been an anti-racist for over 50 years because I have chosen to focus
more on the similarities among people than the differences that have far too
often led to discrimination, prejudice, and the unjustifiable, unfair, and
inhumane treatment of fellow human beings such as the Ocoee Massacre and
too many recent and historic events in our country and throughout the world.
4. I am a second-generation Marine and therefore, arguably, born a Marine. A
Marine is the only classification I willingly accept other than human and
male.
5. As all of you know, today social media is an important communication tool.
So, I would like to share with you what was the number one "liked" tweet in
the history of Twitter for over three years, from August 2017 to August
2020. It is now number two (surpassed when the actor Chadwick Boseman
passed). This tweet from former President Barack Obama, in response to the
chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia three years ago, included the following
quote by the former South African President Nelson Mandela which seems
appropriate to share at this time:
NO ONE IS BORN HATING
ANOTHER PERSO
BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN,
OR HIS BACKGROUND,
OR HIS RELIGION.
PEOPLE MUST LEARN TO HATE,
AND IF THEY CAN LEARN TO HATE,
THEY CAN BE TAUGHT TO LOVE,
FOR LOVE COMES MORE NATURALLY TO
THE HUMAN HEART THAN ITS OPPOSITE .
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