ULTIMATELY, who benefits from these well-practiced fables? Who makes gain from the false lessons instilled? Who are the myths of Thanksgiving designed to benefit? What are the truths they are meant to obscure?
NANCY PELOSI made statements in San Francisco’s mission district on Saturday that seem to signal a new direction on immigration issues. While advocates for reform have been on pins and needles wondering when the Obama administration would make a move to show that his administration will undertake this, this may be the first clear signal that they will.
I AM VERY HAPPY that my children will grow up to see Barack Obama as our President. I do think certain lines of thinking, where people imagine the arc of justice completed now that a black man is our President, go too far and too soon. But I know that from this day forward, children in the USA will grow up with a different idea of African Americans and our country, both.
HERE’S A SHORT PERFORMANCE by the not-yet-renowned Luna S. Herrera, reprising a duet she performed with the Virtual Tracy Chapman in 2007. For the 2008 version she chooses a recorder instead of keys and experiments with many finger positions and one or two notes. Okay, maybe one.
THERE ARE THOSE TIMES in your early childhood when you have a moment of epiphany or an awareness that rings out loudly and clearly and never stops. Moments that serve as a tuning fork for the rest of your life, sounding out a true C note so you can always get yourself in key when you choose.
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
