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

 

“Human family reunion day”

 

in Lawrence.

 

                                                                                                         

                                                          Aron E. Cromwell, Mayor

 

                                                          May 3, 2011