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Yahoo!A woman driving a car alongside the walkers in a peace procession organized by activist Ron Paris and gave the event a blaring soundtrack, but she got pulled over not even three blocks into the march. Officer Robert Casey issued the driver a ticket for the large sign blocking over half the windshield. Paris, City Councilman Das Williams and fellow marchers met at the corner of Anapamu and Garden streets and headed up State Street with their signs and songs, even picking up some like-minded people along the way and bringing the total of participants to about ten. Paris is an advocate for diversity and racial equality. “There’s no such thing as neutrality on diversity,” Paris said. This is the third annual peace march he has organized. He also visits universities around the country to deliver lectures and share his music.
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How do you promote diversity? Diversity is a fact of life. It always has been since the beginning of this nation's history. How do you promote peace? War has been a fact of life since the time of Cain and Abel. To succeed at peace, both sides have to want it. I suggest taking your parade of ten people and going to have a talk with the throat cutters and plane hijackers in the Middle East. But thanks Das for reminding the rest of us ignorant rubes that "peace good, racism bad", as if we were born yesterday. Where would we be without your superior wisdom and saving grace? Don't you have a City to run? Don't you have gang members killing each other on the streets? Hispanic on hispanic violence sounds neither peaceful or racist. Nice try attempting to distract us from the real problems.
Oh and by the way, since you love to use your proclamation of Christianity to tout your superior sense of morality, you might open your Bible and read the words of Christ:
Matthew 10:34
" [Luke 12:51-53] Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
In other words, you're wasting your time and ours trying to bring peace to the world with a parade in Santa Barbara. It's embarassing. Enough of the sillyness from the Silly Council. Get back to solving the City's real problems instead of your own self-promotion. Peace brother.
RForsyth (anonymous profile)
July 24, 2008 at 5:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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