You sound like a profound loser to call half the country profound losers. How so. You Trump haters never back up any statements with anything. Just mindless hateful comments that other haters like. YOU are brainwashed.
I don't that's what we are dealing here with. There are many real threats to humanity, all caused by our greed. Now there are strong-appearing men (never women) all over the world pointing to minorities and blaming them or denying those problems exist. Fascism is strong-appearing leaders rounding up the people they have scared sh!tless before, instrumentalising them and make them hate said minorities: All for te purpouse of power. No values. Just greed. Much more than just bullying.
Edie you certainly delivered a well thought out message to those who have gone astray and forgotten how our ancestors fought for the freedom that we all have in this country! I applaud you for saying exactly what many of us have been thinking .
1956 must have been a good year!!!!! I am in the same club, and wasn't raised in that racist/fascist way--- Trump wants to be a dictator, and must be brought down-- This country has always fought against fascist regimes-- And won!!! It's time to stop this fascist movement which is currently permeating our society-----
Thank you Jonna Ramey. Thank you Edie Falco. Beautifully written. Beautifully read. As a white person, and just a basic decent human being, I agree 100%.
My father served in Europe as well. He helped liberate two death camps. These people completely dishonored every veteran! I find it completely disgusting!
It's more complicated than that as the allies were fighting on the side of the biggest butcher of the 20th century(bar Mao Zedong), Joseph Stalin. He had plenty of death camps that didn't get liberated.
@@TheRonster1957 Stalin would not have been amongst the Allies if Germany hadn't started a two-front war. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend, but when every ounce of strength matters, you make strange bedfellows. Also, you are mistakenly equating gulags to death camps. They were horrible, but Stalin didn't build Zyklon-B showers he first had tested on people with disabilities before unleashing them on other people. Invading the USSR to free its citizens is what you call a total waste of time and resources. Napoleon figured out in one winter that trying to take Russia was a really bad idea. Hitler had "never start a land war in Asia" shoved down his throat. Finally, the biggest butcher of the 20th century wasn't even Mao Zedong, whose "Great Leap Forward" was brutal in its numbers. He was named Thomas Midgley, Jr. An American chemical engineer, his two biggest weapons were his brainchildren, leaded gasoline and freon. Untold millions of people and animals slaughtered because he didn't think through the ramifications of his choices and worse, supported misinformation campaigns about them.
@@marvinmartin4692 You already have fascism here now. Benito Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of the corporate and state. Guess who owns your government? As for dishonouring WW2 veterans, they were lied into the war like everyone else has been lied into wars. It amazes me that anyone believes government justifications for war anyway.
Thank you Edie Falco- I totally agree with you. What is wrong with them??? Thank you for your letter to white supremacy, nazis, bigots, and DJT followers. Thank you soooooo much for your letter. Your parents were a great role model for us- All Americans stand shoulder to shoulder for what is right. Be blessed.
Wow! Your comment is so offensive! What is wrong with you? Hateful hateful hateful people saying others are hateful. Examine your heart lady! Trump followers? YOU are full of HATE and so is everyone here. Where are these white supremacists? I'm in VA! Any God loving human being rebukes hate. You all are promoting it! Only love can conquer hate. You people hate Trump and his supporters (more than half the country) and you don't know why except that they're showing a 9 year old clip to rile people up before elections.
That may be true but do not lose heart. Use this letter one on one when you encounter it yourself where you can reach or challenge people. it won't always work but if you change ONE mind, we will have won.
@@bbrowngrooms You live in a world where banks literally wallpaper their buildings with DEI talking points 30 days a year for black history month. Do you seriously think the reason your message doesn't resonate with more people is because you're not broadcasting it loudly enough?
@@ephraimwinslow The woke clowns actually think that their message comes from the bottom up whereas it comes from the top down, eg. DEI. They are merely tools of the elite working to fullfil elite agendas.
@@HarryF-tz5fo Stay tuned for 2-3 different flavors of excuses for why they go immediately silent when they're actually confronted by the people they claim are hopeless, ignorant and cowardly.
Excellent letter. We must never take democracy for granted. It must be constantly nurtured and cultivated. I hope Americans will step back from the brink.
@@spanqueluv9erWhy does it matter that she didnt write it? That doesnt negate the message. Are you butthurt that the letter addresses you and your kind?
@@CutUSoBaDThey aren't naysaying the letter in any way. They're merely pointing out that the author of the letter deserves credit for it, not merely the actor who read the letter aloud.
I am an immigrant and have lived in this US over 40 years. Thank you Ms Falco and your parents. I lived as a child in a Chicago neighborhood with men who fought in the Pacific and Normandy and they were decent men who shared their love with all.
And they were all God-fearing and Conservative by today's standards. None of them trivialized terms like Nazi or Fascist to shout down people who disagreed with them. Those people would be appalled at how weak, dishonest and manipulative America has become.
@@CognitiveDissident.They would know the dog whistle of what crud you are spouting and the generalizations you spew in an attempt to sound wise. I grew up with the loss of a relative who fought in that war. He would recognize your dog whistle from miles away.
@@IMeMineWho No, they'd see right through your manipulative nonsense, and tell you to read the Bible, more than likely. I lived among those generations, you pretend to understand them and reinvent them to resemble you. They weren't "woke", they didn't think in buzzwords and fallacy like you. There were no "dog whistles", people didn't tiptoe around trying not to offend, they just simply said what they meant. Lots of us lost friends and family to wars of the past, that doesn't make you special, or a moral authority. Your generations are so desperate to feel important that you trivialize real atrocity into a casual insult, and presume to speak about a culture you never experienced.
A dog whistle or words that resonate truth of facts just hiding your head in the sand to fascism and racisms does not hide the facts that it exist! @@IMeMineWho
@@melainewhite6409 No. The identification is not racist but informative. They want readers to know that not ALL white people are haters and trolls where POC are concerned...and in light of the demeaning and hateful things we read from our white American family members in social media - that information is a BLESSED thing to have and gives one HOPE for this country.
How do you know the writer of the letter is rich, or that she has an easy life? Just because it was read well by Edie Falco? Some of us who are white and have challenging lives due to illness and relative economic poverty feel exactly the same way as the writer of the letter. My dad fought. My mom was in the Civil Service during the war. We honor all they fought (they fought against the White Supremacy of Hitler) for by fighting for justice for everyone today. Not deep; just the right way to live. @@Truelib99Hobbes
My sentiment exactly. Well written and well said. Needs to be shouted in every microphone and rooftop. Vote blue in 2024 and let’s continue to save our democratic way of life.💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙
@@graemekeable8461 That is a "tactic," of the wannabe dictator. WE are better than THAT. OUR Constitution and the First Amendment guarantees ALL "free speech." WE will get through this, the alternative is unthinkable!
Good Work Edie! My dad fought in WW2 and i made a solemn vow at twelve years old that I personally that I would never allow what happened in Germany happen in America. And now it is happening. I will be true to my pledge even as an old man. The nazis will never see me coming.
This has always happened in America. Hitler learned his mess from white supremacy here. America is fascist and chattel slavery is the stamp of it. Now Israel is being inducted into the genocide club and white Evangelicals are their biggest cheerleaders with a Catholic POTUS handing them weapons and money to get the job done and allowing them to engage in apartheid in the West Bank to top the carnage off.
@@marsha2709 Love to you too from this Jewess and I am so proud today..a beautiful inside out (to quote the film) male gay friend of mine is accepting a political position today. I hope one day to vote him in for President! I do not love identity politics but he would be a great one!
Amazing. I will always think of this letter when I encounter white supremacy anytime in the future. I'm used to my country being the butt of jokes, but damn, this letter writer made me feel proud, like the arc of justice is (slowly) still going in the right direction.
"when I encounter white supremacy" 'Cuz it's never been more topical, right? (Y'know how you know you're at war with a hollow straw man? Because it's *fashionable* for women like you to come to comments sections like this and soapbox about how much you dislike it. That is THE social litmus test for whether or not a movement has traction.)
What is white supremacy? Is it a President who says black people don't know how to use the internet? Is it a President who says black people don't know how to get IDs? Is it a President whp equates black children with roaches? Is it a media network that calls Native Americans as something else? Is it a President and former Secretary of Sate saying their best friend and mentor was a KKK member and recruiter in the KKK? Is it Malcolm X who said the white liberal Democrat is the black man's worst enemy? Is it a Senator who says that he does not want his children growing up in a racial jungle? When you say you encounter white supremacy, do you tell black people that you have to do all their thinking for them when they ask you to shut up and stop thinking you have to speak for them? Is Candace Owens a white supremacist? Is Ben Shapiro a white supremacist? Are any conservertive blacks white supremacist? When you say you encounter white supremacy, exactly what do you mean by white supremacy? You voted for it, so why do you have a problem with it?
It's worth remembering, when you want to slip into disappointment about America (which has been often the last few years) that a lot of people share that disappointment with you- a lot of your fellow Americans are outraged, offended, baffled, etc- which does speak to the fundamental character of this nation.
Huh? The assertion is White supremacy is everywhere, the nation's biggest threat. So why would you be still waiting to encounter it "in the future"? It's been a day, have you encountered any yet? Oh, and what is your take on black supremacy?
@@pendrag2k If this is true, about a lot of Americans, then why is there still Affirmative Action? Why is appointing a Vice President and Supreme Court Justice on the basis of race embraced?
Powerful, beautifully written letter read with authority. I’m a 70-year-old white man who agrees with the sentiments expressed 100%. Thank you, Jonna Ramey for writing it. Thank you, Edie Falco, for reading it.
This was a wonderful letter composed by a person who knows the true meaning of democracy. Less we forget 400,000+ Americans gave their lives for your rights and freedoms. We will not let you tarnish their memory with hate and facism.
Or let you get away with calling them "stupid" or "suckers"; then you and your father's quack of a doctor cheated to get you 5 illegitimate deferments.
Fascism means the government has authority over everything. Speech, guns, religion, food, clothes, cars. If you believe in government taxing and regulating all of these things, by definition, you are the fascist. Democracy just means any system where some group of citizens vote for their government. A fascist dictatorship that has voting by an upper class, even members of the party, is by definition a democracy
@@logangodofcandy Sorry pal but I disagree. In a two party democratic system a single party is not gauranteed to rule forever. Your Republicans have used all sorts of improper methods to disenfranchised certain voters. That includes illegal gerrymandering to manipulate the voting districts which minimize the voting power of minorities and other segments of this society. But that's okay with you because you do not believe in equal rights for ALL tax paying Americans. This society is the spitting image of PRE-WW2 Germany. As a result Hitler started a war that took the lives of 400,000+ Americans. I am not on that privileged nonsense you are espousing. So when your rights and freedoms vanish and you start looking for someone to blame then go grab a mirror.
This letter should be in schools everywhere! Its to the point, what a fantastic find letters alive! Congradulation on digging this letter up from the archives, if it wasn't archived then congrads to whoever wrote it.
From my European side of view (Dutch), I applaud you and bow for you. You are spot on!!! 👏👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾👏🏻👏👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾. Your speech and point of view, for me, is insanely sane.
I think there are more of us that agree with this letter than those who do not. We need to keep letting our voices be heard. Vote Blue to save our democracy!!!
How did you manage to convince yourself that “voting blue” will protect democracy? Do you have any real understanding for what constitutes a democracy? Has it ever occurred to you that your apparent ideological view of the world might actually be the real threat to democracy? Are you unaware of the fact that bigotry exists among all walks of life? Of course, I have many more questions, but I doubt you will read this far into my message as doing so will cause you far too much internal stress.
It’s amazing. A letter expressing outrage at white supremacy and indiscriminate hate and political posturing brings out the bigots and hate mongers. We live in a sick, anti-human world.
"I think you're being dramatic about an intentionally (and continually) overblown problem propped up by progressive governments because it's been their default scape goat/boogey man for last... 20 years." "YOU'RE A HATE MONGER AND I'VE JUST LOST MY FAITH IN HUMANITY." "Case in point."
What's amazing, at least to me, is only being outraged at race supremacy depending on...race. Amazingly you proudly chest-beating racists aren't opposed to Supreme Court appointments based on race...depending on which race.
Thank you Edie. Matter of fact it was a hard day, I know I wont fall asleep for at least an hour for the pain in my joints. Thank you for the courage you've shown in saying what's REAL.
Frank doesn't speak for me, as a white person! In fact, just the opposite. It's us with the caucasian skin that need to fight the rabid vile white nationalists & racists everywhere we can! You don't fight back by wishing you weren't the same skin color as the lousy ones. In fact, that just marks us as cowards. We need to just stand against them. Not change anything else.
So true, hopefully, at long last, times really are a changing, don’t let casual racist or homophobic remarks be said unchallenged, I’m a 76 yr old white British woman, I’ve learnt if you don’t challenge offensive language, the racist will think you share their views. It gets easier to challenge I’ve found with age. Young people, who are hopefully better educated, for them racism isn’t an issue, homosexuality isn’t an issue. nor the transgender stuff. Thankfully they all work and socialise with each other. I’ve got real faith in the young, obviously I’m generalising, but big oaks from little acorns grow.
I have a ribbon from my great great grandfather. Who received it for surviving Andersonville prison. This fascist rise will be defeated again....and again, it's the American way, thank you Edie
So stunning and so avant-garde that she got a government funded TV show overseas to echo her statements to a live audience of clapping seals. (It sure is easy being brave for progressives. It seems mostly to consist of going to venues filled with your own fanbase and talking smack about people who aren't present, then waiting for applause.)
@@snuffcore9686 Do you have any idea how BORING people like you are to the rest of the world? You've had ONE answer to everything for a DECADE now. Bring up orange man. NO ONE CARES ANYMORE.
Well said. Edie Falco you did a wonderful thing reading to us tonight. Thank you. Well said I love you as an actress and I love and support your words tonight when I came across this. Wow
Very well written letter. I am complete agreement with the writer. I wish there was some way for the people who are afraid of people who don't look like them could hear this.
"Cahm" telling it like it was and is...Happy New Year to Edie & the world...Peace☮ on Earth Goodwill to ALL mankind👮🏻♀👷🏻♂👩🏻⚕👨🏻🎓👨🏻🏫👩🏻⚖👨🏻🍳👨🏻🏭👨🏻💼👨🏻🎨👩🏻🎤✌🏼
@@micawoodburn1912 like I said ….CHRONIC raised from cradle to grave being told by everyone around them that they are victims Racist, fatherless victims This 13% of our population is responsible for 85% of violent crime (per the CDC or FBI website statistics ). the same website statistics will show that nearly 80% are born directly in the bastardization It is the race that cries wolf, while living in a den They do as I say, not as I do group. The for me, but not for thee group. And we all know that always works.
Great letter! You know, babies do not come into this world hating other people - they learn it. They are taught it. What kind of parents teach their children to hate others at all, let alone to hate based upon DNA governed traits!
People form tribes. It happens everywhere and has happened throughout history. Blacks, whites, jews, asians, everyone. Then there are the sub-tribes, clans and then families. That's just the way it works.
I don't hate any races. Or dislike any races. I just hate white woke leftists, but I know they won't find that racist because I can't be racist towards white people.
Where do they learn it? From race-based hiring mandates, race-based educational institutions, race-based government appointments and race-based preference in medical treatment? Or is it race-based Congressional groups, race-based professional groups, or the countless others? Just what could it be.
@@melainewhite6409 It seems everything you want to blame happens to people later in life...teens and up. In reality, their first exposure (or lack of) to racism happens with family.
Well said Ms Ramey. The majority of us who aren't in "the cult" agree 100%. They are "profound losers" indeed.
YES they ARE ! DEMOCRACY will Reign Supreme AGAIN .... VOTE BLUE ...Straight Through
You sound like a profound loser to call half the country profound losers. How so. You Trump haters never back up any statements with anything. Just mindless hateful comments that other haters like. YOU are brainwashed.
And soon Trump will lose in court in one of his many felony trials.
Because he is the biggest baby loser of all time. Waah waah waah.
Cry me a River.
@@Wilett614Vote Blue? So, if I don't "vote blue," then I'm a white supremacist and a threat to democracy? Is THAT what you are saying?
@walterlefferts6297 speak for yourself 🤓 🖕
At least someone with a platform is using it for good. More famous people need to do this.
Live letters have many famous people reading important (and sometimes not-so-important) letters.
Just to be clear, the letter is from Jonna Ramey of Salt Lake City, not Edie Falco. Edie Falco is the reader.
Bullies got to be bullying someone, it's the only way they can feel good about themselves. Great letter 🙂
Hashtag third grade wisdom.
@@ephraimwinslowSo much for humanity.
@@ephraimwinslow It may well be third grade wisdom but it is top class virtue signalling.
@@ephraimwinslow Making the point for him? Good job. 😂
I don't that's what we are dealing here with.
There are many real threats to humanity, all caused by our greed.
Now there are strong-appearing men (never women) all over the world pointing to minorities and blaming them or denying those problems exist.
Fascism is strong-appearing leaders rounding up the people they have scared sh!tless before, instrumentalising them and make them hate said minorities: All for te purpouse of power. No values. Just greed. Much more than just bullying.
Thank you for this. I ask the same question over and over"what is wrong with you?"
Edie you certainly delivered a well thought out message to those who have gone astray and forgotten how our ancestors fought for the freedom that we all have in this country! I applaud you for saying exactly what many of us have been thinking .
As a sixty-seven year old white person I say "Yeah!" I totally agree.
I'm 67 and white as well and I say here here.
As a 70 year old with pale skin, I appreciate diversity and love humans worldwide! 😂 Not swimming in shallow gene pools, lol..
1956 must have been a good year!!!!! I am in the same club, and wasn't raised in that racist/fascist way--- Trump wants to be a dictator, and must be brought down-- This country has always fought against fascist regimes-- And won!!! It's time to stop this fascist movement which is currently permeating our society-----
As a 76 year old white woman, keep the faith.
as a 60 year old white person (melanin deficiency is what makes us white... a deficiency) I whole heartedly agree
Thank you Jonna Ramey. Thank you Edie Falco. Beautifully written. Beautifully read. As a white person, and just a basic decent human being, I agree 100%.
The race statements in these comments is very racist. It's appalling, really.
Me too.
An actress read a bunch of nonsense bullshit written by a leftist turd "eloquently". Yay.
My father served in Europe as well. He helped liberate two death camps. These people completely dishonored every veteran! I find it completely disgusting!
It's more complicated than that as the allies were fighting on the side of the biggest butcher of the 20th century(bar Mao Zedong), Joseph Stalin. He had plenty of death camps that didn't get liberated.
@@TheRonster1957 Stalin would not have been amongst the Allies if Germany hadn't started a two-front war. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend, but when every ounce of strength matters, you make strange bedfellows. Also, you are mistakenly equating gulags to death camps. They were horrible, but Stalin didn't build Zyklon-B showers he first had tested on people with disabilities before unleashing them on other people. Invading the USSR to free its citizens is what you call a total waste of time and resources. Napoleon figured out in one winter that trying to take Russia was a really bad idea. Hitler had "never start a land war in Asia" shoved down his throat.
Finally, the biggest butcher of the 20th century wasn't even Mao Zedong, whose "Great Leap Forward" was brutal in its numbers. He was named Thomas Midgley, Jr. An American chemical engineer, his two biggest weapons were his brainchildren, leaded gasoline and freon. Untold millions of people and animals slaughtered because he didn't think through the ramifications of his choices and worse, supported misinformation campaigns about them.
@@TheRonster1957 so that justifies dishonoring ww2 veterans? It justifies fascism here and now?
@@TheRonster1957 Tell us you have a comprehension problem without telling us.🙄🤦♂️🤡
Jesus.💩
@@marvinmartin4692 You already have fascism here now. Benito Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of the corporate and state.
Guess who owns your government?
As for dishonouring WW2 veterans, they were lied into the war like everyone else has been lied into wars. It amazes me that anyone believes government justifications for war anyway.
Thank you Edie Falco- I totally agree with you. What is wrong with them??? Thank you for your letter to white supremacy, nazis, bigots, and DJT followers. Thank you soooooo much for your letter. Your parents were a great role model for us- All Americans stand shoulder to shoulder for what is right. Be blessed.
Wow! Your comment is so offensive! What is wrong with you? Hateful hateful hateful people saying others are hateful. Examine your heart lady! Trump followers? YOU are full of HATE and so is everyone here. Where are these white supremacists? I'm in VA! Any God loving human being rebukes hate. You all are promoting it! Only love can conquer hate. You people hate Trump and his supporters (more than half the country) and you don't know why except that they're showing a 9 year old clip to rile people up before elections.
Be blessed for sure
She was reading a letter written by someone else.
Wonderful letter
DJT?
Amazingly done. Consider me standing and applauding.
Unfortunately, the people who need to hear this won't.
That may be true but do not lose heart. Use this letter one on one when you encounter it yourself where you can reach or challenge people. it won't always work but if you change ONE mind, we will have won.
We can spread it!!!
@@bbrowngrooms
You live in a world where banks literally wallpaper their buildings with DEI talking points 30 days a year for black history month.
Do you seriously think the reason your message doesn't resonate with more people is because you're not broadcasting it loudly enough?
@@ephraimwinslow The woke clowns actually think that their message comes from the bottom up whereas it comes from the top down, eg. DEI.
They are merely tools of the elite working to fullfil elite agendas.
@@HarryF-tz5fo
Stay tuned for 2-3 different flavors of excuses for why they go immediately silent when they're actually confronted by the people they claim are hopeless, ignorant and cowardly.
Excellent letter. We must never take democracy for granted. It must be constantly nurtured and cultivated. I hope Americans will step back from the brink.
THIS is PERFECT and should be posted in every newspaper and every notice boards! Well done Edie! ❤
^”in… every notice boards”? Also- you realize she didn’t write this, yeah?🤷♂️🤦♂️
@@spanqueluv9eryou disagree with the letter's contents?
@@spanqueluv9erWhy does it matter that she didnt write it? That doesnt negate the message. Are you butthurt that the letter addresses you and your kind?
@@spanqueluv9erCry harder, big ot. 🤮
@@CutUSoBaDThey aren't naysaying the letter in any way. They're merely pointing out that the author of the letter deserves credit for it, not merely the actor who read the letter aloud.
I am an immigrant and have lived in this US over 40 years. Thank you Ms Falco and your parents. I lived as a child in a Chicago neighborhood with men who fought in the Pacific and Normandy and they were decent men who shared their love with all.
FYI, Falco didn't write the letter. She's reading it. Letters Live is the event where actors read these.
And they were all God-fearing and Conservative by today's standards. None of them trivialized terms like Nazi or Fascist to shout down people who disagreed with them. Those people would be appalled at how weak, dishonest and manipulative America has become.
@@CognitiveDissident.They would know the dog whistle of what crud you are spouting and the generalizations you spew in an attempt to sound wise. I grew up with the loss of a relative who fought in that war. He would recognize your dog whistle from miles away.
@@IMeMineWho No, they'd see right through your manipulative nonsense, and tell you to read the Bible, more than likely.
I lived among those generations, you pretend to understand them and reinvent them to resemble you.
They weren't "woke", they didn't think in buzzwords and fallacy like you.
There were no "dog whistles", people didn't tiptoe around trying not to offend, they just simply said what they meant.
Lots of us lost friends and family to wars of the past, that doesn't make you special, or a moral authority.
Your generations are so desperate to feel important that you trivialize real atrocity into a casual insult, and presume to speak about a culture you never experienced.
A dog whistle or words that resonate truth of facts just hiding your head in the sand to fascism and racisms does not hide the facts that it exist! @@IMeMineWho
STANDING OVATION. WELL SAID.
I STAND with you!! hatred and evil will not win if we all stand together
Well done. I am a 70 year old white woman. I will not be silent either.
I'm with you!
Proclaiming that your race adds weight to your comments is...yep racism.
@@melainewhite6409 No. The identification is not racist but informative. They want readers to know that not ALL white people are haters and trolls where POC are concerned...and in light of the demeaning and hateful things we read from our white American family members in social media - that information is a BLESSED thing to have and gives one HOPE for this country.
@@melainewhite6409 The so-called 'anti-racists' are the most race conscious of all. Everything through the prism of race.
@@deehunter9382 Should blacks specify their percentage of blackness versus whiteness given most are of mixed ancestry?
I love a soliloquy that is succinct and witty and profoundly truthful and shared willingly with us in this way, Bravo!
I'm a rich white lady and my life is easy, so every white persons life must be easy. Yeah, real deep.
@@Truelib99Hobbes she wasn't reading a letter to white people, the letter was written to white supremacists.
@@Truelib99Hobbes How old are you, grow up and stop assigning sweeping statements of nonsense elsewhere
@@Truelib99Hobbes wow silly girl back to your banjo
How do you know the writer of the letter is rich, or that she has an easy life? Just because it was read well by Edie Falco? Some of us who are white and have challenging lives due to illness and relative economic poverty feel exactly the same way as the writer of the letter. My dad fought. My mom was in the Civil Service during the war. We honor all they fought (they fought against the White Supremacy of Hitler) for by fighting for justice for everyone today. Not deep; just the right way to live. @@Truelib99Hobbes
That letter carries more weight and exudes more power than any politician has in years.
My sentiment exactly. Well written and well said. Needs to be shouted in every microphone and rooftop. Vote blue in 2024 and let’s continue to save our democratic way of life.💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙
This needs to be aired on Fox, OAN, NewsMax, and EVERY other right wing platform there IS!!!!
It won’t be, just as the triumphs of Biden’s economic policies aren’t.
They won’t listen. They’re too brainwashed.
I have a better idea, shut those stations down
@@graemekeable8461 That is a "tactic," of the wannabe dictator. WE are better than THAT. OUR Constitution and the First Amendment guarantees ALL "free speech." WE will get through this, the alternative is unthinkable!
They'll just get mad and call it "woke"
Good Work Edie! My dad fought in WW2 and i made a solemn vow at twelve years old that I personally that I would never allow what happened in Germany happen in America. And now it is happening. I will be true to my pledge even as an old man. The nazis will never see me coming.
This has always happened in America. Hitler learned his mess from white supremacy here. America is fascist and chattel slavery is the stamp of it. Now Israel is being inducted into the genocide club and white Evangelicals are their biggest cheerleaders with a Catholic POTUS handing them weapons and money to get the job done and allowing them to engage in apartheid in the West Bank to top the carnage off.
That makes two of us.
What did your dad think of Affirmative Action quotas?
@@nghtwtchmn129Nice look you faketriot goading a patriot like him.
Unfortunately it did..in Madison Square Gardens around that time. But thank you for standing up in the fight against tyranny!
Well said 👍🏻
And I gladly support each word of it!
"aligning yourself with two lost causes just labels you as profound losers" GOLDEN
This 29yr USAF Veteran lost numerous friends too. Thank you for your parents Honorable Service. 🇺🇸
Serving the elite
This should be broadcast on national TV at a peak time and shown in EVERY junior high school.
Agree, every day! The Dominian lawsuit against Fox should have included showing this clip daily in their settlement. 😂
Too "woke" for many it seems.
@@larryborsa4396 Woke =mentally unhinged. How many genders are there?
@@larryborsa4396The real meaning of "woke" is a GOOD thing. Republicans are repelled by good things.
YUP, I’m ABSOLUTELY. With you 1000. Percent!!!
Black person to White person, thank you. ❤
Jewess to both of you: peace and love.
She wasn't talking about you as a black person. Please get a brain 🙄
Another Black person thanks you so much Jonna Ramey AND Edie !!!!
@@marsha2709 Love to you too from this Jewess and I am so proud today..a beautiful inside out (to quote the film) male gay friend of mine is accepting a political position today. I hope one day to vote him in for President! I do not love identity politics but he would be a great one!
White person to black person… I love you, brethren ☮️💟
Amazing. I will always think of this letter when I encounter white supremacy anytime in the future. I'm used to my country being the butt of jokes, but damn, this letter writer made me feel proud, like the arc of justice is (slowly) still going in the right direction.
"when I encounter white supremacy"
'Cuz it's never been more topical, right?
(Y'know how you know you're at war with a hollow straw man? Because it's *fashionable* for women like you to come to comments sections like this and soapbox about how much you dislike it. That is THE social litmus test for whether or not a movement has traction.)
What is white supremacy?
Is it a President who says black people don't know how to use the internet?
Is it a President who says black people don't know how to get IDs?
Is it a President whp equates black children with roaches?
Is it a media network that calls Native Americans as something else?
Is it a President and former Secretary of Sate saying their best friend and mentor was a KKK member and recruiter in the KKK?
Is it Malcolm X who said the white liberal Democrat is the black man's worst enemy?
Is it a Senator who says that he does not want his children growing up in a racial jungle?
When you say you encounter white supremacy, do you tell black people that you have to do all their thinking for them when they ask you to shut up and stop thinking you have to speak for them?
Is Candace Owens a white supremacist?
Is Ben Shapiro a white supremacist?
Are any conservertive blacks white supremacist?
When you say you encounter white supremacy, exactly what do you mean by white supremacy? You voted for it, so why do you have a problem with it?
It's worth remembering, when you want to slip into disappointment about America (which has been often the last few years) that a lot of people share that disappointment with you- a lot of your fellow Americans are outraged, offended, baffled, etc- which does speak to the fundamental character of this nation.
Huh? The assertion is White supremacy is everywhere, the nation's biggest threat. So why would you be still waiting to encounter it "in the future"? It's been a day, have you encountered any yet? Oh, and what is your take on black supremacy?
@@pendrag2k If this is true, about a lot of Americans, then why is there still Affirmative Action? Why is appointing a Vice President and Supreme Court Justice on the basis of race embraced?
Powerful, beautifully written letter read with authority. I’m a 70-year-old white man who agrees with the sentiments expressed 100%.
Thank you, Jonna Ramey for writing it. Thank you, Edie Falco, for reading it.
This was a wonderful letter composed by a person who knows the true meaning of democracy. Less we forget 400,000+ Americans gave their lives for your rights and freedoms. We will not let you tarnish their memory with hate and facism.
Or let you get away with calling them "stupid" or "suckers"; then you and your father's quack of a doctor cheated to get you 5 illegitimate deferments.
Beautifully written and beautifully read.
Take this to heart, MAGAts.
Thanks for the reminder. 400,000 omg they gave everything so we could continue to enjoy our freedom. Brave and hopefully not forgotten.
Fascism means the government has authority over everything. Speech, guns, religion, food, clothes, cars.
If you believe in government taxing and regulating all of these things, by definition, you are the fascist.
Democracy just means any system where some group of citizens vote for their government. A fascist dictatorship that has voting by an upper class, even members of the party, is by definition a democracy
@@logangodofcandy Sorry pal but I disagree. In a two party democratic system a single party is not gauranteed to rule forever. Your Republicans have used all sorts of improper methods to disenfranchised certain voters. That includes illegal gerrymandering to manipulate the voting districts which minimize the voting power of minorities and other segments of this society. But that's okay with you because you do not believe in equal rights for ALL tax paying Americans. This society is the spitting image of PRE-WW2 Germany. As a result Hitler started a war that took the lives of 400,000+ Americans. I am not on that privileged nonsense you are espousing. So when your rights and freedoms vanish and you start looking for someone to blame then go grab a mirror.
This person has guts she speaks the truth
This letter should be in schools everywhere! Its to the point, what a fantastic find letters alive! Congradulation on digging this letter up from the archives, if it wasn't archived then congrads to whoever wrote it.
This is what our mainstream media should be shouting from the mountain top! Edie you should run for office.
Great speech. We need more people like her.
To give credit where it's due, the letter is from Jonna Ramey of Salt Lake City, not Edie Falco. Edie Falco is the reader.
_"Aligning yourself with two lost causes just labels you as profound losers."_
Spot-on, Edie.
* Jonna (the actual author of the letter, credited in the description)
Bravo 👏🏼. Love this Letters Live! Thank you!
I am of Northern European heritage and I APPROVE THIS message.
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Edie, please say this for every one of us! I honor your parents and I appreciate you expressing our feelings!❤
Edie did a good job reading the letter, but they weren't her parents. The letter was written by Jonna Ramey of Salt Lake City, not Edie Falco.
Most of them won't read it and if they do they don't get it. Thank you so much for such a great message. God bless you in Jesus name. Amen !🙏 ❤
I could not AGREE more with this (very) intelligent lady!!!
Brilliant, gems of decency hiding in the often dark pit of the internet.
Wonderful letter! Thank you
I'm still applauding.👏🏽👏🏽
From my European side of view (Dutch), I applaud you and bow for you. You are spot on!!!
👏👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾👏🏻👏👏🏿👏🏼👏🏾. Your speech and point of view, for me, is insanely sane.
Wow. Took the words right out of my mouth. Thank you.
I think there are more of us that agree with this letter than those who do not. We need to keep letting our voices be heard. Vote Blue to save our democracy!!!
It may be time to ask your local cinema to show The Sound of Music and other World War II movies.
Vote Blue to Keep Our Borders Open!!!
So you can get out?@@byedumdum4706
How did you manage to convince yourself that “voting blue” will protect democracy? Do you have any real understanding for what constitutes a democracy? Has it ever occurred to you that your apparent ideological view of the world might actually be the real threat to democracy? Are you unaware of the fact that bigotry exists among all walks of life? Of course, I have many more questions, but I doubt you will read this far into my message as doing so will cause you far too much internal stress.
My God. I hope so. Too bad some will miss the point.
It’s amazing. A letter expressing outrage at white supremacy and indiscriminate hate and political posturing brings out the bigots and hate mongers. We live in a sick, anti-human world.
99% of the comments here support the letter
"I think you're being dramatic about an intentionally (and continually) overblown problem propped up by progressive governments because it's been their default scape goat/boogey man for last... 20 years."
"YOU'RE A HATE MONGER AND I'VE JUST LOST MY FAITH IN HUMANITY."
"Case in point."
@@imandan1966 Count mine in, please. Sincerely, A Gen Xer.
What's amazing, at least to me, is only being outraged at race supremacy depending on...race. Amazingly you proudly chest-beating racists aren't opposed to Supreme Court appointments based on race...depending on which race.
So you like to spray around labels at those who may disagree. Sounds tolerant and inclusive lol.
Love it❣️. United we stand 🙏
Thanks Edie
We need all the people to pull together to succeed
Thank U for speaking the truth. We need to work with each other not against each other.
Thank you Edie. Matter of fact it was a hard day, I know I wont fall asleep for at least an hour for the pain in my joints. Thank you for the courage you've shown in saying what's REAL.
"I'm not black but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white." - Frank Zappa, 1966
He was a genius. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
@@marcilynn2943Amen, marcilynn!
WOW.. talk about being ahead of his time. ❤
Frank doesn't speak for me, as a white person! In fact, just the opposite.
It's us with the caucasian skin that need to fight the rabid vile white nationalists & racists everywhere we can! You don't fight back by wishing you weren't the same skin color as the lousy ones. In fact, that just marks us as cowards.
We need to just stand against them. Not change anything else.
So true, hopefully, at long last, times really are a changing, don’t let casual racist or homophobic remarks be said unchallenged, I’m a 76 yr old white British woman, I’ve learnt if you don’t challenge offensive language, the racist will think you share their views. It gets easier to challenge I’ve found with age. Young people, who are hopefully better educated, for them racism isn’t an issue, homosexuality isn’t an issue. nor the transgender stuff. Thankfully they all work and socialise with each other. I’ve got real faith in the young, obviously I’m generalising, but big oaks from little acorns grow.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!! 👏
100%. Haven’t met a supreme human being in my life, unless we’re talking about supreme stupidity.
And the cherry on the top is having this very to the point and factual letter read aloud by an acting great such as Edie Falco.
Outstanding!
Well said thank you! 👏
I have a ribbon from my great great grandfather. Who received it for surviving Andersonville prison. This fascist rise will be defeated again....and again, it's the American way, thank you Edie
🎯
Well done, Edie! Bravo!
Right on!!!!✌️
Outstanding letter! My father and father in law both saw action during WW11. They would have liked your letter too. Kudos.
How would they have liked race based hiring and open borders?
World War Eleven?! Cripes, what did I miss?
@@HardPen-jj5nl whoops
@@TheRonster1957 Or BLM and Antifa vandalizing every old white man statue they could find, even of men who fought for the Union?
To Ronster: Be gone troll.
Most excellent, honest and true.
Thank you! ❤
My sentiments exactly.
This is beautiful, very direct, and as subtle as a sledgehammer. I love it.
So well stated! Thank you 🙏
I absolutely luv U Edie Falco! What a great speach! I agree 1000%! Well done!
Very well said, Thank You.
Well said!!!
Beautifully said!!😊
The Best Speech ever... Thanks you for sharing.
This was brilliant. Sharing EVERYWHERE!!
Excellent letter.
I love her! And I love this particular letter. Bravo!
BRAVO Jonna Ramey (Salt Lake City)👏. Thank you
So stunning and so avant-garde that she got a government funded TV show overseas to echo her statements to a live audience of clapping seals.
(It sure is easy being brave for progressives. It seems mostly to consist of going to venues filled with your own fanbase and talking smack about people who aren't present, then waiting for applause.)
@@ephraimwinslowYawn.
@@ephraimwinslowevery accusation truly is an admission of guilt with you fascist maniacs, isn't it?
@@ephraimwinslow Have you heard Drumpf speak? 😂
@@snuffcore9686
Do you have any idea how BORING people like you are to the rest of the world?
You've had ONE answer to everything for a DECADE now. Bring up orange man.
NO ONE CARES ANYMORE.
Well said. Edie Falco you did a wonderful thing reading to us tonight. Thank you. Well said I love you as an actress and I love and support your words tonight when I came across this. Wow
Thank you and God blee you Ms. Falco. So, so important.
Very well written letter. I am complete agreement with the writer. I wish there was some way for the people who are afraid of people who don't look like them could hear this.
I needed to hear this. Thank you Jonna and Edie! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Amen to that !!❤
Fantastic speech. We need more speaking if the truth. It’s necessary to teach History. Thank you for this video.
VERY well wtitten, and beautifully delivered. Thank you the author, thank you Edie.
I love that letter!
Bravo! Well said.
Your stance makes you a monumental human being. Thank you for speaking out.
Thank you. Now if we could only come together and refuse to tolerate injustice, it is a capital idea.
"Cahm" telling it like it was and is...Happy New Year to Edie & the world...Peace☮ on Earth Goodwill to ALL mankind👮🏻♀👷🏻♂👩🏻⚕👨🏻🎓👨🏻🏫👩🏻⚖👨🏻🍳👨🏻🏭👨🏻💼👨🏻🎨👩🏻🎤✌🏼
THANK YOU!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
And yet……some people have not learned a thing in 2023 either.
Brilliant
Just another informed cable news viewer, being worldly and wise.
XD
They are controlled by hate and insecurity...
@@Paint-brigade1776 the privilege you have to say that is crazy.
@@micawoodburn1912 like I said ….CHRONIC
raised from cradle to grave being told by everyone around them that they are victims
Racist, fatherless victims
This 13% of our population is responsible for 85% of violent crime (per the CDC or FBI website statistics ).
the same website statistics will show that nearly 80% are born directly in the bastardization
It is the race that cries wolf, while living in a den
They do as I say, not as I do group. The for me, but not for thee group. And we all know that always works.
I totally agree with that letter, it was well written and was humorous while getting the point over!
Fantastic letter well written and so True
INDUBIBDIDLY SUPERB!! BRAVO!! WELL SAID!!
Beautiful letter.. and a beautiful, talented lady to get the point across 🙏☮️🕊️‼️🇺🇸🗽⚖️🇺🇸🗽⚖️🇺🇸
I have always been very fond of this woman and now, even more...
Salute to Edie. 👍🏾👊🏾
Bravo!
Thanks so much, Jonna Ramey and Eddie Falco! Your words are powerful!
Thank you Miss Edie!🙂
Preach it sista!
What a thorough letter, kudos to this lady, she speaks for all of us.
All of us being: the people who are happy to pay the BBC licensing fee.
@@ephraimwinslowlet me guess, you are a white supremacist and felt threatened by this somehow?
@@ephraimwinslow You're watching this on RUclips. There's no licensing fee.
@@vermiliongamboge155
Say you're on the spectrum without sayin' it.
@@ephraimwinslow aww the little baby is butthurt because his stupidity was pointed out. So hilarious.
Great letter! You know, babies do not come into this world hating other people - they learn it. They are taught it. What kind of parents teach their children to hate others at all, let alone to hate based upon DNA governed traits!
People form tribes. It happens everywhere and has happened throughout history.
Blacks, whites, jews, asians, everyone. Then there are the sub-tribes, clans and then families. That's just the way it works.
I don't hate any races. Or dislike any races. I just hate white woke leftists, but I know they won't find that racist because I can't be racist towards white people.
Yes, indeed @@TheRonster1957
Where do they learn it? From race-based hiring mandates, race-based educational institutions, race-based government appointments and race-based preference in medical treatment? Or is it race-based Congressional groups, race-based professional groups, or the countless others? Just what could it be.
@@melainewhite6409 It seems everything you want to blame happens to people later in life...teens and up. In reality, their first exposure (or lack of) to racism happens with family.
I wish this would go viral. It gives me hope again.
All that in 2 minutes and 44 seconds. Brilliantly put.