Bonnie Hammer Quotes
Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.
Hammer, Bonnie. "Why USA Network is Rebooting 'Erase the Hate'." The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2017.
Clinton was reacting to questioning about gays in the military.
The decision was 5-4 and reversed a trend in which the court had been going before. Roberts and another appointment by George W. Bush tilted the majority. See {614911} for a quotation from the 4 justice dissent.
This was actually a very courageous statement for an American politician running for national office. As a result of the pressure of this statement President Franklin Roosevelt allowed Black enlistment in the Army Air Forces.
The Saudi Arabian Royal Family had been large financial and political supporters of the Wahabbi sect of Sunni Islam. The mullahs in turn supported the monarchy and provided religious cover, so important in Islamic countries. However, the Wahhabis took the Saudi money and set up Madrassas (Islamic Schools) throughout the kingdom and in many other countries of the world including the United States. However, the Wahhabi curriculum included extensive hateful and violence advocating materials regarding non-Muslims. After 9-11, the Royal Family realized that they were also the targets of the terrorists who ironically were recruiting many of their fighters and suicide bombers from the very Wahhabi Madrassas that the Saudis had funded. They claim that they were not previously aware of the extent of the violence taught in the Madrassas (hard to believe) but they resolved to make changes. As a first step, the examined all the texts and teaching guides of the institutions they had funded and demanded that changes be made. (However, they had little influence on those Madrassas outside the kingdom that were not dependent on current Saudi money such as many of the schools in Pakistan and The West Bank and Gaza. These did not change and continued to produce terrorists.). al-Faisal however showed that the Saudi’s were now serious about reform of the teaching by going a large step further, and focusing on the teachers. Saudi Arabia began a program to vet all the teachers, imams and other clerics, a step that was a remarkable reversal from the situation on 9-11.
At the Democratic convention of 1924, the party was split over a proposed resolution that would denounce the Ku Klux Klan by name. Bryan had an opportunity to denounce the Klan, but his dwindling political base in the south contained many Klansmen. After his speech he was mercilessly heckled by the crowd. Bryan claimed he had never been so humiliated in his life:
Bonnie Hammer (born 1950) is an American network and studio executive. As of 2020, her title is Vice-chairman, NBCUniversal.
