Etan Thomas's Speech

Thank you somegirl from All Spin Zone for finding the full text of Washington Wizards center/power forward Etan Thomas's speech from the rally on Saturday down in DC. It starts:

Giving all honor, thanks and praises to God for courage and wisdom, this is a very important rally. I'd like to thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts, feelings and concerns regarding a tremendous problem that we are currently facing. This problem is universal, transcending race, economic background, religion and culture, and this problem is none other than the current administration which has set up shop in the White House.

In fact, I'd like to take some of these cats on a field trip. I want to get big yellow buses with no air conditioner and no seatbelts and round up Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, Trent Lott, Sean Hannity, Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush, Bush Jr. and Bush Sr., John Ashcroft, Giuliani, Ed Gillespie, Katherine Harris, that little bow-tied Tucker Carlson and any other right-wing conservative Republicans I can think of, and take them all on a trip to the hood.

Not to do no 30-minute documentary. I mean, I want to drop them off and leave them there, let them become one with the other side of the tracks, get them four mouths to feed and no welfare, have scare tactics run through them like a laxative, criticizing them for needing assistance.

Part speech, part spoken word. It was incredible. Matt even said to me at Drinking Liberally on Tuesday night that he's not the biggest fan of spoken word, but he still got into it bigtime. I'm not going to put Thomas on the same level of MLK Jr., but he was just an inredible public speaker. Coupled with the event being a peace/anti-war rally right on The National Mall, I immediately thought of MLK.

He definitely is More Than an Athlete.

Comments

[Josh]

Huh. Wow. I wish I'd seen him. What time of the day was this?

[albert]

It was at the concert stage around 5.30p or 6p.