WE BEGIN, but do not end, with the sensational incident where the Obama White House, under Trumpian pressure, produced for public inspection the President’s “long form” birth certificate. I do not know how successful I will be in my attempts to navigate the journey, but I think it’s important to move from an immediate feeling [...]
JUDGING BY THE EGREGIOUS SILENCE on mainstream U.S. infotainment stations, one might assume that the life and premeditated murder of an innocent child is only worth our compassion and outrage if she is white. Because the brutal shooting and home invasion that swallowed up the life of nine year-old Brisenia Flores has had a hard time getting any play on major “news” outlets.
IT WAS PAINFUL ENOUGH for the community when the Minuteman Defense League murdered two members of the Flores family. And that was before we knew the FBI could have prevented it.
AN INTRIGUING VIDEO into the very-possibly rigged election for president of LULAC and what might be the motivations behind that….
SEMANTIC GAMES DO NOT MAKE CHANGE. What a person stands for, acts for, works toward, and feeds is what and who they are. Given the dodging games and general misunderstanding of the terms Racism and Racist, are there clearer ways to assess and describe what harm someone is aiding, or what justice they are fighting for? Yes.
IN ARIZONA, DO WE NOW SEE a sad mutation of our once-beautiful América? Or do the scales fall from our eyes to reveal the true, gleeful, unabashed visage of a beast on which we ride?
THE ARIZONA BOYCOTT is about so much more than just one law. It is about more than just racial profiling, which already exists but which SB 1070 requires. This resistance to Arizona’s haywire approach to cultural change is about more than textbooks. It is about more than accents. It is about our América, which cannot be harmonious when we are all being so divided.
READING THROUGH OTHER PEOPLES’ LETTERS can be a fun diversion for a Tuesday morning. Here’s one the New York Times online saw fit to publish, and that we here at the Unapologetic Mexican will be kind enough to answer.
TAKING A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND LIVES of Tam Ngoc Tran and Cinthya Natahlie Felix, a couple of beautiful human beings who recently lost their lives in a car accident.
IN POLITICS, PHRASES ARE HURLED ABOUT with a repetition that becomes a song; a pattern of mouthsounds spelling out a sonic shape with a predictable, recurrent, and lulling rhythm. Mind, you, the message is a lie, but the beat is so on time, that we find our feet stepping along in a shuffling, delusional line.
A TIMELESS TACTIC practiced by the oppressor is to burn the pages of all your history books. To shatter your statues and to destroy your icons of hope and power. Today in Arizona, these age-old methods play out yet again. But they cannot stop us, nor the truth of our peoples.
FROM THE CONFERENCE IN MIAMI, I came away with two different sides of the same, rich, multi-layered story. I’ve written a little bit about one. Added to the other side, the yield is deeper and richer than it would be by looking at either aspect alone.
BACK FROM MIAMI AND LITTLE HAITI, where I attended an international symposium on Immigration Coverage in Media and met a host of fantastic people as well as experienced numerous interesting, challenging, exciting, and enlightening moments.
JETTING OUT MIAMI WAY to attend an international panel on immigration, and how it is covered in the US ethnic media vs. Europe’s ethnic media vs both mainstream media systems. Thanks to the French-American Foundation.
WE OWE ARIZONA OUR THANKS for passing a series of persecutory laws over time that finally culminate in today’s cultural crisis. Boycotts, civil disobedience, and righteous outrage are sweeping the country as this self-proclaimed nation of immigrants is engaged in a fight over its heart and soul.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
