On what people of color want: Education, health care, equality in pay, action on climate change, “don’t gerrymander me out of the neighborhood.” “Of course, if you’re the culprit, come see me.” People should take the time to reach out to each and listen, she said. On her message of community, Lee said, “If we’ve been taught to hate, we can be taught to love.” In accepting the award, she moved through numerous topics, ranging from love, to what people of color want, how Fort Worth should greet its new police chief, and who she thinks Fort Worth should elect as mayor in May, frequently punctuating her talk with dry jokes. Lee took the stage to a standing ovation. A community pulling together for everyone - that sounds like a pretty good place to visit.” “Opal Lee believes in a message of freedom and equality for everyone. “You might wonder what this has to do with tourism,” Mark Nurdin, Visit Fort Worth’s chairman and CEO of Bank of Texas’ Fort Worth region, said in introducing Lee. “Opal’s a legend,” Marty Leonard, the Fort Worth philanthropist and businesswoman, said during a video honoring Lee that was played during the breakfast. Visit Fort Worth was a leading sponsor of Lee's Walk 2 DC celebrating Juneteenth 2020, which garnered national attention from news media and celebrities including Usher, Diddy, and Lupita Nyong’o, and a feature of Lee by The New York Times.
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Lee collected 1.5 million signatures on a petition to create a national holiday for Juneteenth - that is, June 19, the day slaves in Texas learned they were free after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. “And those of you who know me know I’m seldom at a loss.” “I’m humble, I’m thankful, I’m proud, I’m at a loss for words,” the 94-year-old Lee, honored by Visit Fort Worth with its annual Hospitality Award at the bureau’s annual meeting Friday at the Omni Hotel Fort Worth, said. Visit Fort Worth offered Opal Lee an open mic Friday morning. Opal Lee speaks at the 2021 Visit Fort Worth Annual Meeting.
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