Ron Brown Tribute @ DNC Meeting

I was listening to the DNC Meeting in New Orleans, and they did a wonderful tribute to Ron Brown. Almost had me in tears.

Alma and Michael Brown were there too, and Alma spoke.

So I thought it would be nice if we could pay tribute to Ron on here as well.

Ron revitalized the Democratic Party like no one else I have seen in modern time.

And just from my perspective as an African-American, it really made me feel good to see a person like Ron Brown who had the President's ear.

Not simply because he was African-American. I think Condi Rice and Colin Powell have proven just because you look like me and have my same skin color, doesn't mean you represent my interests or my values.

But I was proud of Ron Brown because he had a history and a legacy of trying to do things to help lift up his community. He really believed that once you reached the top of the ladder, you had the obligation to bring people up with you.

To see people like Ron Brown and Alexis Herman have President Clinton's ear, it made me feel like my issues were finally going to be addressed.

Ron Brown died just days before Easter in 1996, and following is a portion of President Clinton's speech at the Dover Air Force Base Ceremony:

"The sun is going down on this day. The next time it rises it will be Easter morning, a day that marks the passage from loss and despair to hope and redemption, a day that more than any other reminds us that life is more than what we know, life is more than what we can understand, life is more than, sometimes, even we can bear. But life is also eternal. For each of these 33 of our fellow Americans and the two fine Croatians that fell with them, their day on Earth was too short, but for our country men and women we must remember that what they did while the sun was out will last with us forever."

:patriot: He was a great American.

I'd forgotten what a handsome man he was, and full of joy and life.

speak so graciously and supportively of Dr. Dean. It certainly was heartwarming.

I was glad to see it too.

And yes that's a beautiful quote, isn't it?

causes fireworks.

Thank you for your post.:hi:

I appreciated that tribute.

...delivered without notes, seemingly extemporaneously, to a small audience of family members sitting in folding chairs in a gloomy hangar, was IMHO the best speech Clinton ever made.