Monday, January 18, 2016


John Carlos Frey was the speaker at the All People’s Breakfast  in Balboa Park this morning in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday... and in celebration of the recognition in San Diego that all people are free to live under truth.  Frey is an investigative journalist.  Before he was a journalist he was an actor who was Emmy-award nominee four times.  He was exactly the right speaker for the special breakfast.  He challenged all of us to be investigative in the parts of the communities where we live and in our role as citizens.  He acknowledged that he is a journalist with bias as he told us why we should not believe everything we hear from reporters. Donald Trump is scary because much of what he says is not true.  Journalists who do not call Trump to the power of truth do a disservice to the news organizations who hire them, and they do a disservice to Americans who expect to find truth in media.  Local playwright and director Samuel Valdez was awarded the Ashley L. Walker Social Justice Award.



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