Thank you to the people of Alabama for restoring my faith and hope in a life-long American dream of liberty and justice for all and for reminding me that Every Vote Counts.
I especially want to thank the black women of Alabama for their contribution to this important win. I believe in your march to the polls yesterday I could hear echoes of the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. whose words are etched in stone in the Civil Rights Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.
Just imagine if one day justice really could “roll down on us like waters and righteousness (which Webster’s everyday thesaurus describes as that which is honorable, ethical, honest, just, fair, equitable…) like a mighty stream.”
Until then…
Stay tuned.
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About Sheila Morris
Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother.
In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality.
She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019.
She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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I was certain Roy Moore would win and just as I was going to bed they announced Jones had won. I almost wept.
And I thank the black women of Alabama for standing strong, standing firm, and saying ‘No!’ to Moore and _____.
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I was certain Roy Moore would win and just as I was going to bed they announced Jones had won. I almost wept.
And I thank the black women of Alabama for standing strong, standing firm, and saying ‘No!’ to Moore and _____.
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Bob, I felt just like you did…I had no faith that Doug Jones could win. Honestly…Pretty and I had decided to watch The Crown instead of the returns, and then she read on FB that Moore had lost so we immediately switched to MSNBC and were beside ourselves. The Crown had to wait!
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Maybe we’ve reached the bottom and are now on our way back up. 2016 might have really been the worst of it, and us.
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I like your optimism, Harry! I am hoping you are right, that the best of us will come back strong…and stronger.
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I hope this is the first of many positive signs of change to come. People are finding their voice and it’s time they use it to help us all. I’m cautiously optimistic 2018 is going to be better. This year needs to show itself to the toilet.
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Hahah…exactly! I share your cautious optimism!!
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Yay indeed to the black women of Alabama!
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We love our European friends!!
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