When I heard Romney's deplorable, yet honest, view of the American population in his demented mind, I thought of a wonderful woman I met at a rally in Washington, DC in 2010.
Chaplain Sylvia Jordan, pictured here
CHAPLAIN SYLVIA JORDAN is a national treasure. Born in the early 1900s, still going, and still an activist. THIS IS WHO WE ARE!
I ran into Sylvia and her nephew, Garland, at the Metro Station when leaving the rally October 10, 2010.
Chaplain Sylvia Jordan was born in 1919 (same year as my deceased mom) and is 91 years old. She went to the rally!!! She is blind and a veteran of WWII and he is a Vietnam Vet. May we all be as spry and engaging as Sylvia. This picture is Classico Americano.
A Quote from Chaplain Jordan:
Dr Richard Norris @UBAwesome
#Quote Fear and faith - both believe that what you cannot see will happen Sylvia Jordan
I was pleased to see that Chaplain Sylvia Jones presented at the 911 Memorial.
I was sad to learn that she faced homelessness last October, 2011.
DID HER FRIENDS MANAGE TO KEEP CHAPLAIN JONES FROM BEING BOOTED OUT OF A NURSING HOME? ANYONE.....
Here's the story I found from an Occupy Wall Street report:
Now to tell you about Merchant Marine Major Chaplain Sylvia Jordan, (hereafter called 'Sylvia'). I was hustling east on the path, out of Liberty Plaza, 20 minutes late leaving for the trains to take me back out to JFK and my flight back to Colorado. I glanced to my left and became glued to the image of an elderly woman, in full dress uniform, sitting in a wheel chair, talking to a man kneeling on the ground, obviously taking notes. The woman sitting next to her and close to me, tapped my elbow, noticing my camera, and said something to the effect that I should learn this woman's extraordinary story, take photos, etc. I just had a feeling I should take the time to heed her advice and stop to find out what was going on.
92 year old Sylvia Jordan is an extraordinary woman and has many stories to tell of a life filled with service, taking extreme chances/measures, peacefully and in the service of the United States of America as a Merchant Marine Chaplain Major. Sylvia was the Bishop who consecrated the ground of the fallen 9/11 victims, during the 9/11 Memorial right after the tragedy. In her early years, she persevered in driving a car to the base of an inaudible Colorado peak, and climbed the peak in her SKIRTS during a bad storm, to prove a woman could do anything a man could do. Sylvia was the first person to successfully climb that peak. I wish I could have shot video of her but the sounds around her were too dynamic for her shallow voice and sometime mumbles.
Sylvia was in the park that day, because she was to become HOMELESS last Wednesday, October 12th. She was being evicted from her home/care facility and she wanted "to show what good, hard-working Americans look like, that are about to be homeless". Adjacent to where Sylvia was sitting, her proud cousin, Garland Roberts, and her long time friend, Colby Knight, had a table set up where they were selling T-shirts with images of Sylvia participating in historic events/settings. Garland and Colby were telling anyone who would listen, about Sylvia's plight while they were selling the T-shirts to raise money to keep her housed/cared for. (They also told some great stories of her life!)
92 year old Merchant Marine Chaplain Major Sylvia Jordan is a National Treasure and Hero, and yet there she was, sitting in Liberty Plaza, trying to save her home and health care, while putting a face on the 99%.
Yes, Mitt Romney, Chaplain Sylvia Jordan is one of the 47% and so am I. And you have made it abundantly clear you don't give two hoots about any one other than those who can enrich you, your status, and/or your family. If you did, you wouldn't have multiple offshore accounts HOARDING MONEY. You and your ilk make me cringe.
Please, buy a space ship and go dig your crap on another planet!
Willard Romney, you insult some of the most wonderful people in our country with your insouciant glibness, your heartless rendition of WHO WE ARE.
Now, get off your high dancing horse and help Chaplain Sylvia Jordan! Help those in need personally, not by writing a check to cover some fictitious 10% of something.
And to all the rest of the insouciant (my new word this week) GOP
THIS IS WHO AMERICA IS!
Some blips about Chaplain Sylvia Jordan
Life and times of Marcus Garvey
By C. Ron Allen Staff Writer, August 26, 2007
As a child growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the early 1900s, Sylvia Jordan recalls her parents going to street meetings led by Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of the most colorful and controversial leaders of the black community.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/...
Sylvia Jordan, a former WWII Buffalo soldier Chaplain, who is blind, is escorted out of Zuccotti Park after a day of protesting. She claims that it is her duty and others to speak up to what is happening in America. The Occupy Wall Street protests. Wednesday October 5, 2011. NEW YORK, NY, USA. Photo by (Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger) TO PURCHASE THIS PHOTO, CALL THE STAR-LEDGER PHOTO LIBRARY AT 973-392-1530
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Do you hear that, Mitt? She claims that it is her duty and others to speak up to what is happening in America.
What has happened is the party you and your friends held during the Bush Administration ended in disaster for 47% of AMERICANS.
Go play somewhere else.
SHAME ON YOU, WILLARD ROMNEY