Elton John and Civil Rights

March 22^nd 2015

          A letter writer to the AJC chastises  Elton John for daring to speak out. Perhaps more celebrities should use their influential position to speak out on important issues such as attacks on basic human rights and liberties. In the same issue Leonard Pitts points out how Ashley Judd stood up to physical threats including rape following some sports comments she made on twitter. Good for her and for Elton John. We need more people, especially those in the limelight, to stand up and contest the ugly mob thinking that leads to discrimination, misogyny, and threats of physical violence.