Office of the Mayor
Proclamation
Lawrence, Kansas
WHEREAS: The American Dream is that by welcoming bold and hardy people to our shores we have drawn the human capital required to fund world leadership; and
WHEREAS: More than any other nation on earth, America has drawn people from around the world to become its citizens, with people from every country now residing here; and
WHEREAS: There is now no problem we cannot solve, for no matter what the challenge, the ideas necessary for its solution live among us in the cultural memory and psyche of our people; and
WHEREAS: Hatebusters fights all hate in all its forms and Culturally Speaking works to provide meaningful opportunities for people of different cultures and ethnicities to interact with one another; and
WHEREAS: At the Human Family Reunion, who’s right is the wrong question until folks get to know one another;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Aron E. Cromwell, Mayor of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, do hereby proclaim Saturday, May 7, 2011 as
in Lawrence.
Aron E. Cromwell, Mayor
May 3, 2011