Let’s head into the weekend with some wise words from President Barack Obama at the White House LGBT Pride Reception.
The President’s full speech is here, and well worth a read. I was struck, once again, by his confidence in the younger generation and his willingness once again to learn from his own daughters:
When you talk to the upcoming generation, our kids—Malia’s, Sasha’s generation—they instinctively know people are people and families are families. And discrimination, it’s so last century. It’s so passé. It doesn’t make sense to them. So we live in an America where the laws are finally catching up to the hearts of kids and what they instinctively understand.
He is right, too, that “We cannot be complacent” and “we’re going to have to keep on pushing”—and that this is a task we must all undertake, for our collective good as human beings:
If you’ve felt the sting of discrimination, then you don’t just fight to end discrimination for yourself, you’ve got to fight for the poor kid who needs opportunity. You need to fight for the working mom who can’t pay the bills. You’ve got to fight for some young woman on the other side of the world who can’t get an education. It can’t just be about us. It’s about we, and what we can do together.
