ON TUESDAY, relations between the U.S. and Cuba thawed a bit more. Discussions for implementing U.S.-Cuba Migration accord resumed after a six year stall. This move is another positive mark for diplomatic progress between the two countries.
ONCE AGAIN, beating out the Serious Commentary that most TV programming attempts on such issues, here’s Jon Stewart of the Daily Show with a piece on the Sotomayor confirmation hearings going on. Much thanks for helping us laugh about the lunacy that passes as thoughtful politics these days.
THEY BESEECH THE WISE LATINA TO SOOTHE THEIR TREMBLING AND WOUNDED EGOS. Like petulant babies they repeatedly, almost to the point of absurdity, demand she confess her irrational temperament. And throughout it all cannot see the irony.
SO YESTERDAY AND TODAY have been the SCOTUS hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that she’ll shatter the small stereotype some of these ailing senators like Scat-mouth Sessions hold in their brittle minds, and it may hurt. I also have no doubt she will rock the process in general, and we shall see her on the Supreme Court before long.
THE IMMIGRATION DISCUSSION is sometimes reduced to symbols or a war of “sides,” be it on blogs, comment threads, or conference calls between legislators, media outlets, and activists. But it’s important to remember what this fight is about: People.
LAW INDICATES HUMANKIND’S ATTEMPT TO BE JUST; it is an extension of a civilization’s morality. Immigration reform must come soon; it is a moral duty. It must pass not just for the benefit of the undocumented community, but to decisively stave off a destructive energy made possible by the lack of humane law.
TODAY IS THE DAY of México’s midterm elections. While Felipe Calderón is not on the ballot, his policies are under scrutiny. Support for or against PAN, FeCal’s party, will be interpreted as approval or disapproval for his violence-heavy policies. Of course, that’s assuming the vote tallies are legit.
IT’S FRIDAY, and one of the oldest blog traditions I can think of is where we shake out the spirit with la música! I don’t always follow it, but I think it arose out of an organic need. So many of us follow such dire happenings day after day…it is taxing. We must fight on! And also, we must dance.
THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT/Anti-Mexican/Anti-Latino/Anti-Reason crowd was holding down the Sane and Well-Meaning façade more or less okay…until one of their own pushed it a little too far and went on a little murder spree against a Mexican American family. Now? The façade falls a bit more. Now the naked, grimy cheekbones jut out.
WHO WILL GIVE THE DEMOCRATS A TOUGH TALK? Who will tell them that in order to rise above the well-entrenched practices of the Right, they will need to be daring, intelligent, and original? Who will assure them they possess the ability to be both honest and victorious?
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
