and i’m glad you make effort out there to speak against the vile tide. i wish you good energy and sustained strength.

I want to put it out there WHERE THE YAHOOS LIVE AND CHAT that THEY are being manipulated into thinking that brown people are “other” and the cause of all of their problems. I try to be as plain as possible, considering the “audience.” Maybe one person will pause and think. Maybe.

I want to believe what you are saying – that this venom is a last sputtering coughing up of the bile of a terrible disease that is on its way to cure.

I’ll hope for that. But I confess skepticism.

I would definitely avoid arguing with those closeminded sickos. I mean what is the point? They are not reasonable, they are diseased in the mind.

I agree. It is scary. But the reason they are freaking so much lately (and will be for a number of years) is because they sense the changes happening all around them. In culture, in census, in power, in appearance. I’m sure it will get a bit worse before it gets better. But it is getting better. And we’ll stick together and see it through.

And yes, there are moments I have to look pretty hard to “see what I am seeing.” But the alternative is what? Giving up? Getting depressed? Giving way? No, not acceptable. People who scream that loud and spit bile that far are scraping out their own cowardly guts to do so. We have a bigger truth.

and yeah i scanned the names on that site and said similiar things to myself. asked questions about why certain faces/names are always getting themselves out in front every issue and all by themselves as if they are the best ones to lead the way…but…we know those answers. i didnt hit it this time, but i’m glad you mentioned it. its also why i put that paragraph at the end, hoping to, well, recruit some groove.

Then again, I’ve remained hopeful throughout these dark years of Bush and ICE. You know I’m weird that way, with my mystical Asian ways: I don’t always believe my own eyes because I have a feeling in my heart that there’s more to the story than eyes can see. And I’ve felt this whole time that this wave of hate — in politics, mass media, online, and of course “enforcement” — has been a paroxysm of desperation in the face of the unstoppable ascendancy of The Brown in the 21st century. So I’ve never agreed with the frustrated cries that “we’re getting our asses kicked”. In fact it is white supremacism that is gradually having its ass kicked — not only by people of color but by all who believe in justice, equality, freedom — and is putting on a big show of bravado to compensate for the undeniable reality of what’s happening. And it is happening. Day by day.

Immigration Impact looks like a worthy effort. Hopefully they can shed that typical Beltway advocacy vibe, though. Know what I mean? Get a bit more swing in the step? Dig out a deeper groove? And it might help to get a lot more Latin@, Asian, Middle Eastern, sub-Saharan African names on the roster. Just sayin.

Anyway, thanks for the post, ‘mano. For the read, the uplift and the headsup. Always a good time for these things.

Peace.