Every Navy Musicians Association reunion builds a stronger sense of friendship. In Memphis we wrote down each others' email addresses on NMA notepads and cocktail napkins, brought them home and updated our address books and mailing lists. Email is a great tool for keeping camaraderie alive.
Email is also a great tool for spreading racism and religious bigotry. Since the reunion some shipmates have started sending me jokes about encouraging Muslims to commit suicide, pickaninny jokes about a black presidential candidate and other such crap.
Please stop.
The NMA--like the USA--is white, black, conservative, liberal, Christian, Jew and None of the Above. Yet we in the NMA are blessed with something special and unifying, a history of service and a common bond of experience that draws us together.
Please, my shipmates, do not weaken that bond with bigotry and bias. Hate is corrosive, and rust can sink a ship.
It's a free country and you can send messages of division to whomever you want. But let me be clear: when you send such demeaning trash to me, you only demean yourself.
Please don't send me bigoted garbage. I don't want it.
Not in my inbox.
Not in my Navy.
Frank Mullen's very unofficial source of poop, skinny and bitching for present and former U.S. Navy Musicians.
3 comments:
Thanks Frank. I thought I was the only one out here that was offended by the same stuff. You hit it right on the F------- head.
CZ
You said it, Frank. I joined a reunion organization, not the Republican Party. I wish they'd stop sending that crap.
Thank you Frank: for stating it so eloquently. Pleased to have you as a friend.
David Rincon
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