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I took my son to the pediatrician to get his athletic physical completed for next school year. Prior to this year, the office would just ask me if there were any changes from the year before, update the changes if there were any, slap a new date on there and print it out for me to sign. Of course this year we have a new form because Florida so I have to fill out a new one. The form is almost exactly the same as last year just arranged differently. The only real change is the box marked "Sex: Male or Female"now says "Sex Assigned at Birth" with a line next to it. Being the smart ass that I am, I looked at him and made a comment like "You guys are taking this god complex too far assigning the sex of kids nowadays." He did not laugh but not because my comment wasn't funny. Evidently, his receptionist was verbally and physically assaulted by a parent who took the receptionist's asking the question in order to fill out the form as an insult.
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946
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