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DEL.ICIO.USFranklin calls for equality
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Aaron Gould Sheinin asheinin@ajc.com
Denver — Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said today’s anniversary of women gaining the right to vote should be a launching pad to working for equality around the world.
Speaking at a luncheon marking National Equality Day, Franklin challenged Americans “to insure that equality is not something that we just earn because other people have given it to us, but rather something we are challenged to be sure others have.”
National Equality Day exists because of another Georgian, former President Jimmy Carter, who signed an executive order creating it while president. This is the 31st anniversary of that proclamation and 88th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.
Carter also spoke Tuesday, to a ballroom packed with several hundred Democrats at the Doubletree Hotel Denver, the Georgia delegation’s home the week of the national convention.
Carter joked that he was surprised to learn when he got to Washington in 1977 that women did not dominate government.
“Because I had been dominated by my mother, by Rosalynn and by 9-year-old Amy,” he said, referring to his wife and daughter.
Carter said he discovered there were more than 3,000 laws and federal directives that were discriminatory toward women and he worked to overturn them.
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By v racer
August 26, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
Agreed, but what do the democrats really mean? Equal opportunity is good for everyone and strenghtens our nation. Affirmative action is not and does not. Embrace one and reject the other.