Part 1 of a 5 part series

This morning, Tom Brokaw helped kick off NBC’s Super Tuesday coverage with a story about how voter anger and disillusionment are playing out in this year’s presidential primaries. We can talk about how this isn’t the whole story in another post. Today, we want to kick off our #Election2016 series – Election Moments We Love – with a little #SuperTuesday humor.

 “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” - Mexican Proverb 

Dr. Amanda Kemp, Visiting Scholar in Africana Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, is currently touring a performance project "Inspira:  The Power of the Spiritual," and her film “To Cross an Ocean Four Centuries Long."   A playwright and Pennsylvania Commonwealth Lecturer on poet Phillis Wheatley, Dr. Kemp regularly writes on African American culture, spirituality, and social change in her blog: "On a Mission to Heal the Planet."  She earned a B.A. and Phd from Stanford and Northwestern Universities, respectively.

AFSC’s humanitarian work in Vietnam focused on rehabilitating civilian casualties of the war. Many civilians, especially children, lost limbs as a result of booby traps and bombing campaigns in the countryside. It is without a doubt that innocent people suffer the worst of war. War was a disruption of their daily lives, but also constituted a theft of an otherwise peaceful future. Relief efforts were severely limited due to a lack of personnel, supplies, clean water, and sanitation.