I"LL FEEL A WHOLE LOT BETTER" byrds

Andy Flocks Town Hall Meeting is a little different this evening at 7:00 pm at Elm Street Elementary School (the new Huntington).

Along with residents being able to voice concerns of the city. Andy has a guest speaker Ynonne Oliver Northeast Ohio Advocacy Coordinator for United Health Care Action Network.(UHCAN)
this lady's positron is to help people confused about the up coming Obamacare sign up stating in October.

This isn't a discussion on the merits of Obamacare it is an opportunity for residents to find out if they are eligible and what and who is covered. Do you have a pre-existing condition? Are you presently enrolled in a COBRA program, what will be the choices you will be able to find in the network?

I know there are many for as well as opposed to Obamacare this is just an opportunity to ask questions on the program.

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I attended the vigil at Veterans Park last evening. Look I know something has to be done about the immigration problem in this country but riding the coat tails of a civil rights historical event to me doesn't serve their purpose.
Speakers claim the cause of Hispanic rights are the same as the rights Dr. Martin Luther King struggled with during his lifetime.

What?

In my whole life I have never seen signs proclaiming  Whites only No Hispanics , I have never heard of an Hispanic child segregated when it came to an education.
Please what the African-Americans went though to get equal rights in this country the Hispanics aren't even close.
Dutch slave ships traveled to Africa where African tribes captured Africans in tribal wars and sold them to the Dutch traders. They were herded on ships stripped of everything. Language, culture, religion, yes even their families. They became no more than someones property. They were slaves period. There is no bigger blemish on American History than the existence of slavery. We fought a civil war over this,and after that  war we had the Jim Crow era. Illegal immigrant? No one can be considered more than African-Americans they truly were brought here ILLEGALLY!

My father once mentioned a troop train during WWII where German POW were given better seats than Black American soldiers?

 No this struggle has lasted hundreds of years and in no way compares to the plight of the undocumented workers presently here in the United States.
As I left last night's gathering I approached the only African- American woman I saw at the event, I wasn't the only one misinformed about the vigil she had brought her two you children to relive a "Dream" but as well as I was mistaken about the event.. Now she held no ill-will towards the Hispanics but claimed the date was not about them. I agreed.