I heard Colin Powell speak at the Alumni Wednesday evening. No, I didn't buy a ticket; nor, did I obtain a freebie at the Student Association. Not that anything is a freebie at UB. We, I am speaking of the UB students, pay for all of our services. I was offered and accepted a free ticket by some of my fellow protestors.
Anyways, I didn't come to the Alumni at 7:15 p.m. this evening to hear Colin Powell speak. I came to protest: "bring our troops home now".
Of course, this is only a piece of my protest. Some of the other pieces of my protest have to do with poverty. In particular, the poverty and struggle of so many women and children in America. A big piece of this poverty is tied to child support or I should say a government that isn't able to collect child support as efficiently as it collects taxes. Also, a government that seems to have its hands, in a big way, in the approximately 18 billion dollars of child support owed annually. This child support should go directly from the fathers to the mothers on behave of their children (In a small percentage of cases this is reversed).
Getting back to Colin Powell's speech. It was very entertaining. He talked about corvettes, Elvis, and balling-up your failures and throwing them away as if they had never occurred, but he didn't talk about Iraq until almost an hour into the speech. The failure piece came at the end of his speech. I wish Cindy Sheenan, all the parents who have lost children in Iraq, and who currently have children in Iraq, could have been at the Alumni to applaud Colin for his comment about balling-up your failures and throwing them over your shoulder as if they never existed.
Photo: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
