And im bree sison filling in for kathryn hauser. You know. Hey, you guys, it didnt feel like winter, what a having. Temperatures this morning mild degrees. The dewpoint in the 30s, its colder in the suburbs, norwood sitting at 26, i point that out because there is a little bit of fog in norwood, there may be a touch of patchy black ice, the rest of us are doing mostly fine. 35 in lawrence and 40s on the cape and islands, there are clouds in place but we are in for a dry day today, more and more sunshine breaking out this afternoon. This morning, lunch time 571 degrees, 519 degrees. And 45 degrees for the ride home, fair and quiet with a sunset at 4 11. Tracking shower the coming up, first traffic and weathered to good morning danielle, we are we have a crash 995 northbound before 295, no reports of any rain closures, its early so we are not seeing any backups there. Bree and chris. Just days after the terrier attacks in california,. For just a third time this presidency, the president
Areas rich gay pride history. The parade draws over 1 million people. But through the years the parade has meant a lot of Different Things to different people. Reporter gay and lesbian people would not have marched down the street the last 15 years ago. Nonetheless, wear costumes. Floats were sponsored by blue chip corporations and refreshments were pedaled by iconic american brand names, coke, pepsi, budweiser. Has the parade just become a big party. A commercialized event with nothing left to say. It was anything but widely accepted in 1972 when a band of gays, lesbians, hippies and anarchys marched down the street. And as their numbers grew so did their boldness. For the first time many felt safe in being publicly gay. Even flamboyantly gay. And according to susan striker, director of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, Transgender Society theyre too showy. Theyre too visible. They dont look like anybody else. And i think the extravagance of some gay pride parades is to say yeah so what. So
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communicate that. and every incident that i ve dealt with over the last decades, even when bush was in there, we knew who we could talk to, even if we were going to argue with them, we knew the robert browns, the art fletchers, all the way to even president obama, who was black himself, but had valerie jarrett and scott minerson in there. there s nobody that black leaders can talk to that they know. we did know omarosa. we may have taken her to the woodshed a few times, and she might have fought back, she s no pushover, but we knew her. there s no one there and they don t even seem to get it. at the same time, for a lot of african-americans, it was offensive to say that this reality show is who we have to talk to. that the only person you re going to give us to talk to is omarosa. at the same time, as you know, when we were at the naacp image awards last year, omarosa was