An excellent, thorough analysis of what is happening at the Texas border! There should be more coverage of this important issue in the corporate media.
I did a ton of Google searches in preparing these last two pieces on Eagle Pass and I was really struck by how little close attention the Times and the Post have paid as the crisis developed.
I am a white, mature US-American, born in the Midwest, raised in a white, segregationist culture, and still white. BUT, I speak Spanish, am married to a woman of color from Central America, and am the father (adoption) and grandfather of beautiful brown "Americans," all of whom speak English. My wife has her education from a Central America university, my wife the daughter of a typical farm worker and a homemaker with a doctorate from a Spanish university whonow teaches US children in public schools. I might say the best years of my life were lived in Latin America and I, too, speak Spanish. This "white" man born in the heart of what was largely "Republican" Indiana am as "Latin" now in my heart as I am US-American. It is a wonderful feeling and a wonderful way of life. I know many southern neighbors who are immigrants from Latin America. We need them, they work in construction, childcare, elder care, building and home maintenance, and many speak multiple languages, have professional jobs and are contributing immensely to the welfare of people in the US. Thanks goodness they are here. Right on! Paul, let's work together to overcome the dark side of the US that is not hidden and sometimes even rises to the top of public view.
I think the town itself is predominantly Mexican American. The residents have seen their beloved riverside park closed off and their locale invaded by noxious white nationalist Trumpist cretins/fascists, including "my governor" Kim Reynolds.
An excellent, thorough analysis of what is happening at the Texas border! There should be more coverage of this important issue in the corporate media.
I did a ton of Google searches in preparing these last two pieces on Eagle Pass and I was really struck by how little close attention the Times and the Post have paid as the crisis developed.
Thanks for all your effort in writing this excellent article!
I am a white, mature US-American, born in the Midwest, raised in a white, segregationist culture, and still white. BUT, I speak Spanish, am married to a woman of color from Central America, and am the father (adoption) and grandfather of beautiful brown "Americans," all of whom speak English. My wife has her education from a Central America university, my wife the daughter of a typical farm worker and a homemaker with a doctorate from a Spanish university whonow teaches US children in public schools. I might say the best years of my life were lived in Latin America and I, too, speak Spanish. This "white" man born in the heart of what was largely "Republican" Indiana am as "Latin" now in my heart as I am US-American. It is a wonderful feeling and a wonderful way of life. I know many southern neighbors who are immigrants from Latin America. We need them, they work in construction, childcare, elder care, building and home maintenance, and many speak multiple languages, have professional jobs and are contributing immensely to the welfare of people in the US. Thanks goodness they are here. Right on! Paul, let's work together to overcome the dark side of the US that is not hidden and sometimes even rises to the top of public view.
I think the town itself is predominantly Mexican American. The residents have seen their beloved riverside park closed off and their locale invaded by noxious white nationalist Trumpist cretins/fascists, including "my governor" Kim Reynolds.
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
-Fredrick Douglass.
So many red lines... Do few progressives. Yup were having that revolution Paul but it don't a social Rev its a conservative revolution
Out numbered and out gunned Paul....what to do.
We've got this!
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You are my rock...thanks My hope...thanks again.