Can Bill Frist honestly have signed off on a book like this? How pompous and self-congratulatory can you get? My favorite reader review:
“This ghost written, ego-inflating snoozer of a book will be a sure cure for anyone suffering from insomnia. The mendacious Frist expounds in mind-numbing detail on his ‘roots’ and is sure to please readers who enjoy reading the fatuous, self-serving meanderings of wealthy, privileged, right-wing ideologues who are fond of ‘good breeding,’ the land of cotton and Dixie.”
There’s more feedback here.
UPDATE: Some readers have said this is for family consumption only. So why is it on Amazon and available to anyone in the country? It just strikes me as politically obtuse and morally troubling when someone from the South trumpets their good breeding as something morally admirable. What’s the betting on the Frist family’s old views on miscegenation?
DIVERSITY AT DUKE: It’s beginning to dawn on the faculty at Duke that they may have an issue.
THE EMPOWERMENT OF MARRIAGE: Something is happening out there. Instead of begging for the basic right to marry, gay couples are now demanding it. In San Francisco, they are simply getting married as an act of civil disobedience. And that is also happening across the country. This will alter the debate – as will the actual existence of marriages in Massachusetts in May. The debate will become how to tear gay couples apart, how to demean and marginalize them, rather than an abstract debate about theories of marriage. And as these couples begin to feel what marriage is like, as they experience what civil equality actually is, they will become emboldened. Just as those who refused to leave segregated lunch-counters began to deepen their sense of moral outrage and conviction, so the act of getting married – something heterosexuals simply assume they have – is empowering. When Massachusetts becomes the first free state for gay citizens, the movement will explode. I predict thousands of couples from all over the country and the world will arrive to claim their dignity and rights – and this experience will help transform the argument. I’ve always believed that if we could get every gay man and lesbian to fully internalize their own equality, to get past the brutalization that society has wrought upon their souls, nothing could stop us from achieving our dream. Now the process is accelerating. Already consciousness has been changed. Already the very idea of equal marriage rights is in the minds and souls of a new generation. And when the religious right try to strip us of those marriages, and force us back into second-class status, then we will see something else: resistance. We are on the verge of the next phase of this civil rights movement: when we become the change we want to see in the world.
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