6/01/2018
U.S. Secretary Condoleezza Rice
c/o Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
Commission
1629 K Street, Suite 801
Washington D.C., 20006
Dear U.S. Secretary Rice,
My name
is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning
history and social justice. In these subjects, I like to learn the importance
of making Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the
environment from pollution, have immigration reform to help protect immigrants
including refugees from being oppressed, and many others. U.S. Secretary Rice,
the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as
66th U.S. Secretary of State and your activism to be very inspiring
to me.
In
January 2005, I was amazed on how you made history by becoming the first
African American woman to become Secretary of State. When you served as 66th U.S.
Secretary of State from 2005-2009, I truly appreciated on how you were a strong
supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, expressing
the need for more laws to combat against hate-crime to help protect minorities
including people who are different, and support the idea of making women’s
rights stronger to help protect them form being discriminated based on gender. Also in your role as U.S. Secretary of State,
I liked on how you worked with different countries like Europe, Mexico, Canada,
South Korea, African countries, and China to build coalitions to combat against
terrorism, drug trafficking, and diseases. Your approach on “Transformational
Diplomacy” like establish Director of Foreign Assistance, a program to oversee
U.S. foreign aid to other countries to help them deal with poverty, health
issues, and famine and expand more programs to train American diplomats to help
them have knowledge about different countries including understand U.S.
relations with them is common sense. Another thing that I really liked about your
role as 66th U.S. Secretary of State is how you advocated for the
need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees form
being oppressed, help assist North Korean refugees get shelter from their
oppressive country by working with other human rights organizations including
some foreign countries, and tried to
build coalitions between different foreign nations to team up to reduce CO2
Emissions. After you left your role as
U.S. Secretary of State, I especially like about how you are a moderate
Republican where you are a continuous strong supporter of Civil Rights, advocate
for immigration reform, support the need to reduce climate change, and
emphasize the need for human rights to help protect people who are different
from oppression.
U.S.
Secretary Rice, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability
is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different
advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get
teased. Your support with your advocacy for Civil Rights including people with
disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Also your role as a moderate Republican and as
66th U.S. Secretary of State gives me motivation to continue to
learn history and social justice. My
future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to
make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment
from pollution, have immigration reform
to protect immigrants including refugees from being oppressed, and many others.
Also I enjoy reading your memoir “No
Higher Honor”: A Memoir of My Years in Washington because I liked learning
about how you worked hard to overcome your struggles on being discriminated
based on color during the Civil Rights era, getting an education, and how you
made some achievements as U.S. Secretary of State.
I
strongly believe that you made a great difference in public service. I’m very proud on how you are a strong
supporter of Civil Rights, immigration reform, protecting the environment, and
many others. You have inspired me to
work hard on my disability, continue to learn history with social justice, and
read some of your books. Your memoir helped me to decide to write my short
story called The Kid with No Words about my life working hard on my disability
where I included many influential people including you for inspiring me. It is a gift to you for inspiring me and I
hope you enjoy my letter and my story. Also
I’m providing you a picture of me for you to keep for inspiring me. Thanks for taking the time to read my
letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please
continue to advocate for common sense ideas.
Sincerely,
Matt Winick
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