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Threaten, harass demean arrest and often abuse anyone who fit the profile. acting with impunity against a group with no political or social power. but on june 28th, 1969 the new york city police taepted a routine raid on a greenwich village bar, the stonewall inn. but instead of business as usual, police encountered people who had had enough. that night the people of stonewall fought back. men refused to produce i.d.s, gay teachers openly mocked the police performing kick lines in face of cops threatening to arrest them. the resistance became physical bottles flew fwirs burned when police barricaded themselves in the bar to await breakup, rioters used a parking meter as a battering ram. stonewall was not a peaceful action, it was a riot. it was the watershed movement in the lgbt community. ....
Public that only nonviolent protests can bring sustained social change. allow me to disagree. take the nonviolent direct action of african-american civil rights protesters. their actions, like the march from selma to montgomery were potent ingredients for policy change, but most of the change was still a result of violence. it was the violence done against their unascended bodies that pricked the conscience of the nation. because a key aspect of so-called nonviolent protest is provokeing violence. if you think that actions of protesters themselves can never bring about meaningful change look at the events of 1969 the night stonewall erupted. in the 1960s the new york police department enforced anti-sodomy laws so aggressively they were arrested 100 men a week. they would burst into space, ....
A tradition that continues more than 40 years later president obama himself has cited the stonewall riots as evidence of americans commitment to the struggle for equal rights. we the people declare today that the most evident of truths that all of us are created equal is the star that guides us still just as it guided our forebearers through seneca falls and stonewall and selma, it is now our generation s task to carry on what those pioneers began. and this week as baltimore burned, the supreme court heard oral arguments in the case that might lead to marriage equality in every state in our nation. a decision that would represent one more victory in the struggle for equality that began decisively as a riot. joining our table now cheryl ....