"This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year-old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President." (Mark Shields, PBS)
And the word on the street - the one that runs north-south, from my head to my heart - tells me that when the news of the shooting flashed on the TV screen above the jukebox at O'Leary's Pizza Emporium And More in Chinatown, NYC cabbie and art student, Abdul Sahib, his wife, and their daughter, set down their gyros, joined hands, and said a prayer for the victims and families of Tucson.
It's true.
If you believe it.
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