So hombre/brother Stanny. Are you Latino now? I thought you claimed you were black? I guess whatever gets you attention.
You Say La Raza, Yo say La Humana
localblack Says:
I am overwhelmed with the amount of participation in this Blog, why it reminds me of City council meetings and the Charter review committee meetings where so many of our community show up to support our community, why out of nearly half a million people less then a dozen shows up. And most of them, are also completely mis-informed, or worse yet, dis-informed.
At El Concilio, we had a very informative forum from three immigration attorneys regarding the new proposed immigration legislation still sloshing in the senate - that was productive, that was understandable and that was more to the point of answering the questions of what are we doing as a country to humanely deal with our screwed up immigration system.
Eve Hightower sat next to me throughout that, and I got a chance to further appreciate a Bee reporter. Now she has another fan.
This did not get any press that I know of, it seems that the proposal for sanctuary did though. I tried to download the pdf but it does not work.
It breaks my heart when I see and hear people so angry about undocumented immigrants and they completely leave out any balance in their words regarding compassion in any way for anyone but their own kind. It makes them look like racists.
Not that it helps though when the site coordinator of El Concilio, Raul Garcia presents his organization as a separatist group, and expects me as a civil rights activist to buy the line that La Raza does not mean the race, it means the people, when any spanish-english dictionary will tell you otherwise - it means the people - La gente means the people.
Yeah, whatever, we must decide what is right for us as compassionate Americans. And not mistake ourselves as the American Race.
I would have rather those kids not filed what they had filed, but I support their rights, just as anyone elses. I would rather have humane immigration reform on a National Level, something that we could all agree on to whatever degree.
But that's what happens when even the site coordinator for the Modesto El Concilio, Raul Garcia, cares more about his name or photo in the local papers than truly fighting for a single race as he has numerous times dictated to me is El Concilio's aim (that is why the hmong are not supported by this group in any outreach efforts) - And that is why, when El Concilio holds forums and I stand and fight, I often feel that I am doing his job. And I'm not even Latino.
Worse yet, because I have repeatedly accused Raul Garcia and El Concilio as an organization as being seperatist, if I walked out into the street right now and got hit by a bus, Raul Garcia would dance on my grave singing Liza Minelli Show tunes before my body was even cold.
If the scarce amount of input on this blog and everything else that happens in this county is any indication - bring on the sanctuary, we all deserve whatever happens because we never speak up or support eachother unless there is something in it for us personally.
In short, I don't believe that this proposed sanctuary promotes understanding, I think it stirs up a hornets nest.
But who am I? Like I don't get off on throwing gas on the fire?!
Robert W. Stanford
No not necessarily...
Stanford4Modesto Says:
Though you may have heard about the Brown VS. Board of education, you may not have heard about a LATER ruling called Mendez VS Board of Education - the latter of which finally allowed those of hispanic descent to be integrated into white schools - (not that long ago) -
I myself felt the sting in the 70's in Delhi - if you ever get a chance to see my handwriting, it comes from my grandfather's instruction who was instructed somewhere between 1910 and 1920 - the style is much like his - if you get my drift. Not because I was hispanic, but because of my association with all that I knew from the farm - (other mexicans in my class that were my friends).
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