A half century ago, I marched for civil rights at Selma. More recently, I led a historic march for parental choice. There is no doubt both movements are fueled by the same noble impulse, to expand freedom and opportunity.
My three sons began receiving career advice from me before they even started high school. It was both the curse and the blessing of having a Mother who spent time as the Vice President of Talent and the Vice President of Human Resources at Chick-fil-A.
For months, producers in the IMAX film industry like myself have been quietly told by Smithsonian officials that the theater will be torn down in order to expand the museum’s cafeteria.
After Charlottesville, Trump took a full 48 hours to condemn actual neo-Nazis goose-stepping ten minutes from Thomas Jefferson’s birthplace. But even against this bleak and darkening backdrop, the Democratic Party just can’t seem to get its act together.
Last weekend, serious violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a group of white supremacist demonstrators was confronted by a group of folks who were there to condemn the message the demonstrators had come to advance.
In crafting the First Amendment, our Founding Fathers resolved to protect all speech, even expressions of hatred and bigotry. It is one of the steep prices we pay for democracy. What you are not free to do is visit acts of violence on others.
There is a larger purpose then pointing fingers, and it is a goal that neither party, nor our political leaders, nor the media has addressed – and that is to make a conscious effort to unify a broad mass of the American people around our common ideals and common goals.