my hero

i just to clarify that Dr. David Dockery is my hero.

 

before the soulforce thing went down, he had me and 4 other students that were planning on attending the rally into his conference room to talk about what soulforce had done at other schools and what Union's response would be.

 

Union provided them with box lunches from Heavenly Ham, paid for by private donors (no tuition dollars).

Union allowed them on campus (they didn't have to and two other schools arrested soulforce members for coming on campus).

Union provided police protection (Jacksonites can be a little "rednecky" when it comes to "gays").

Union discouraged students who just wanted to "be on tv" from attending. Dockery explicitly said that going to hear their argument was a legitimate reason for going. going to argue, however, was not.

 

whether or not the Union community will mature at all as a result of this visit remains to be seen.

 

but with a leader like Dockery in place, i think we've got a pretty good chance.