MALVERDE: La luz esta en saber, en el poder entender. Que mientras no habres los ojos no vas a poder ver…
A HATE CRIME is made possible by many actors, not just one ugly mind and hand. You have the actual perpetrator of the act, the immediate culture that encourages and approves of this behavior, the legislation that provides a moral/legal underpinning for certain views, and those who craft the legislation. All will soon be held accountable.
TODAY I FEEL THE NEED for sun, sand, brass, movement and joy. This song brings me back to a few places, one of them being Miami Beach. In the Pacific Northwest skies this morning there is more than enough gray, so we won’t delve into any more discussions on duality and dichotomy. Tu mamí tenía razón! Dance! And then dance some more!
TOO MANY in the USA cannot help but be poisoned by our toxic MSM and its festering monologue. It is a media that cares not for humans, but instead for profits and fitting in with the power flow. Let’s be reasonable: almost 100,000 hungry children wandering and lost cannot be helped by laser-equipped fences and fancy phrases.
AS HISTORY IN THE USA pointedly picks favorites, leaving some of us out of the books and movies and stories and truths, it is very important for raza to continue to tell our own stories through art, poetry, song, and performance. This is one of the reasons that arte is so integral to nuestra cultura.
FINALLY, immigrants and darker-skinned people are being seen more and more as “us” and less and less as “alien/other/invader.” We now enlist more voices and more strength. Obama’s election is not the instigator of this change, simply one sign among many that our hearts and minds and awarenesses are demonstrating the reasonability and intelligence and empathy that a modern day human ought to have.
IF WE WANT TO UNITE, it cannot be by overlooking differences that stab at people and stick in their throats and veins and bellies. This unity must come about by connecting ourselves through struggle; by working together to fight the iniquities that pit most of us against each other, and all so that one or two types of persons can ascend, unfettered, to the top of the heap.
DEAR MISTER PRESIDENT ELECT: You are too smart to pretend you don’t see all this. So I say if you do not act on it and soon, you are nodding along with this scourge that threatens both our peoples and the whole nation as a consequence. And I know I don’t need to be overly direct about this, but I will anyway:
MY HOPE IS THAT WE CARRY THIS FORWARD. This energy now rising. That we all carry on with this decision to work for a new day and a new way of seeing. A way out of the hate and the fear and the small-minded paradigms that keep us running in circles as we try to spiral up to the Top of the Shining Heap and step on other hands to get there. That we continue to open our minds and our hearts and become this change we want so much to believe in.
¡FELIZ DIA DE LOS MUERTOS! With love and thoughts y velas for Maria da la Luz “Lucha”, Alejo, Juanita, Chente, Beto, Richie, Arthur, Felipe Emilio, Isabelle….
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