The Missing Narrative: "N^$%er, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You"
by ThisIsMyTime Black Kos Guest Contributer
The demonization of President Barack Obama was very well crafted from day one. It has been very successful largely because of the Corporate media who are responsible for the perception and impression people get about the President and the State of our Nation. For two years, the lack of sound analysis in the media was very apparent and no matter what the President did, there was no help but partisan mudslinging and I am not counting on the next two years being any different.
Nearly everyone of the major potential Republican candidates for the presidency for 2012 are on the FOX channel's payroll slinging and getting coverage to crystallize their legitimacy by pushing their racists views for the road to the White House.
But, the missing narrative has not been really discussed out in the open and it ain't about policy and if it is, it is coded with a "kinder gentler" coating. It is about the Person. A Black Man! The Kenyan!
They are screaming if anyone is familiar with the saying..."Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You!", a phrased used as early as 1970s to exclude African Americans from spending a night in Whites only city limit.
Rinku Sen of ColorLines eloquently puts it summing up this racist two years in the article: The Most Racist Campaign in Decades, and What It Demands of Us
Let’s review the last two years in racial politics. Post inauguration, there was an immediate escalation of the birther and Obama-as-secret-Muslim madness, much encouraged and amplified by Fox News and the fringe tea partiers it elevated to the mainstream. That brought us memorable moments like people spitting on black congressmembers and brandishing signs that were alarming for many reasons, none of them having to do with bad spelling. Rep. Joe Wilson called the president a liar during his health care address to Congress, accusing him of creating reform that would let undocumented immigrants access care (which, sadly, he didn’t). ACORN, an organization that has registered hundreds of thousands of people of color to vote over its 40-year history, was attacked for supposedly supporting prostitution by a fraudulent "journalist" dressed in racist pimp drag. Congress summarily de-funded the group, just before it was vindicated on every charge.
That was all before this election season got into swing and candidates went to new lengths to demonize people of color. During the California primary, three Republican gubernatorial candidates pinned all their hopes on vilifying Latino immigrants as criminals. Republican congressional candidates forced the nation into weeks of silly debate about the Park 51 project. They equated Islam with violence and questioned the patriotism of all Muslim Americans, helping to fuel a rash of attacks on mosques nationwide and a threatened Quran burning that spiraled into an international crisis. South Asian Americans Leading Together released a report this week documenting dozens of horrible statements attacking South Asian candidates. South Carolina State Sen. Jake Knotts called Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley "[a] fucking raghead," adding, "[w]e got a raghead in Washington; we don’t need one in South Carolina."
At times I feel Obama has not stood tall pushing back addressing the racism that has spread in this country by the very people that are all out trying to destroy his Presidency. At times, I also wonder what he must say in public to push back against the Confederacy. I understand the dilemma of being a Black President in an institution where the double standard runs deep and all the way to the Oval Office. At times, if Obama calls these bigots for what they are...and that is "Racists", I would not imagine to see cross burnings in the Whitehouse lawn not to mention he will be referred as that "Angry Black President".
Truthfully, Obama is smaller today than the promise he made in 2008 for many reasons. One that is very basic but we on the left don't seem to get that contributes to it is not knowing how to criticize as we continuerewarding Republicans (recommended read). How lovely would it have been to freeze certain moments when we were super charged and everyone had hope in ecstasy. As soon as we won in 2008, it was such a relief but the long embattled campaign exhaustion put millions of non activist democrats on the left to sleep while the other side continued with the "Just Say NO" slogan.
What began and felt like an American movement soon was taken over by a Teabagging movement. Obama like our little voice that is being hung to dry out there by itself by the media was hung to dry by the racist Republican't Party who were just not quite ready for the "Yes We Can" ideology. They caricatured our movement while the Left was taking a nap, while we continue our in-fighting and while the media was brain washing and pushing the narrative to the majority of our low information voters how we are overspending, how the Government is taking over, how we are moving into becoming a communist country, how we haveproposing the death panel, how Obama's plan is to enslave white people, et al narratives while Congress and the White House quietly broke a two year record of legislative accomplishments...
...never mind the nature and quantity of the problems this Administration has inherited, to only be dismissed of course by the Right Wing misinformation campaign and some over zealots on the left who never understood how to walk and chew gum at the same time.
We were all suppose to be in this together in this difficult and depressing times in our nation's history where the 8 years of Bush has reversed the feat of our children's future. It would be fair to conclude that President Obama, the first Black Man to become the most powerful man in the world, with many Whites voting for him, was singing "free at last" to only learn about White rage and madness CHANGE has brought. Now they are mad as this email I received clearly and eloquently depicts the story that all the screaming ain't about the policy but a crusade against that ONE:
Now you get mad?
After The 8 Years Of The Bush/Cheney Disaster, Now You Get Mad?
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate Energy policy and push us to invade Iraq.
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined.
You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.
You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden. You didn't get mad when Bush rang up 10 trillion dollars in combined budget and current account deficits.
You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
You didn't get mad when we gave people who had more money than they could spend, the filthy rich, over a trillion dollars in tax breaks.
You didn't get mad with the worst 8 years of job creations in several decades.
You didn't get mad when over 200,000 US Citizens lost their lives because they had no health insurance.
You didn't get mad when lack of oversight and regulations from the Bush Administration caused US Citizens to lose 12 trillion dollars in investments, retirement, and home values.
You finally got mad when a black man was elected President and decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, job losses by the millions, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, and the worst economic disaster since 1929 are all okay with you, but helping fellow Americans who are sick...Oh, Hell No!!
So, the idiots and bigoted came out in droves to say two years of a Black Man in the White House is more than we can handle so we need to set the stage for 2012 on how best to position ourselves to cripple and send the "Nigga" to his rightful birth place...Kenya or Indonesian or one of the Arab countries in the Middle East or is it back to where he belong - the South side of Chicago.
Two years after the historic election victory, who would have thought that Democrats have lost the magic for the likes of Sarah Palin. I have to say, the Racist Republican Teaparty has done the job -- the job of dividing and concurring using fear as a tool to butter up low information stupid White voters to go against their own-self interest, pumping the misinformation to the left and making sure some in our side stay home.
Well, the voting majority of this country indeed spoke during this past election. They want their country back. They want their liberty. They want their good ole boys club back. They have said it clearly that they want their privilege intact.
In them old days, they used to post a welcome billboard when you enter a city limit of Sundown Townes saying - Welcome to Anna, Illinois, and then the disclaimer..."Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You" and now they are saying it openly...Nigga, you don't belong in there" no matter what you do. It is above your pay grade.
If you think the xenophobic rhetoric at South Asian or the pushing down the Latino vote strategy or the GOP and Tea Party Voter Suppression Tactics or Sharron Angle’s and Louisiana Sen. David Vitter's anti-immigrant race-baiting are just flirting with racism, just wait until the campaign for 2012 really starts.
They are framing racist scapegoating where people of color are defined as the nation’s problem (look now further than Arizona and Woodbridge, Virginia) rather than as the "lifeblood of its future as a replacement for forward thinking policy". So, what are you going to do about it?
Rinku Sen of ColorLines concludes:
Democrats have shown no sign that they’ll challenge that strategy for what it is. So it will be up to all of us to demand both parties do better.
I fucking agree with her so what are you going to do about it?
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The Hollywood no one ever thinks about LA WAVE: In Hollywood, black teenagers comprise a disproportionate percentage of street youth.
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According to a study unveiled Wednesday by the Hollywood Homeless Youth Partnership, the number of black youth on the streets of Tinseltown is far greater than those of other races and ethnicities living in similar circumstances.
That reality is one of many chilling facts exposed in "No Way Home: Understanding The Needs and Experiences of Homeless Youth in Hollywood," a 68-page report that aims at reducing homelessness in the area.
Susan Rabinovitz, who co-authored the in-depth needs assessment, said a significant shift occurred over last 10 to 15 years that has resulted in more African-Americans, ages 24 and under, becoming homeless in Hollywood. "We don’t really know why this change has occurred, but it is very concerning," Rabinovitz said Tuesday, one day before she and other representatives and associates were due to reveal the contents of the study at a press conference at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.
Funded by grants from the California Endowment and California Wellness Foundation, the $300,000 report was put together to show the pathways to homelessness for youth; their utilization of and experiences with services in the area; their health status and educational and vocational needs; and the particular risk factors for youth in the delinquency and dependency systems. HHYP is a collaborative effort between eight agencies that serve displaced youth, all focused on preventing and reducing homelessness through training and capacity-building, research, policy development and direct service.
A young woman sleeps on a bus bench in Hollywood, where 42 percent of homeless youth identify themselves as African-American. (Photo by Gary McCarthy)
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Shantrelle Lewis, director of programming at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in Manhattan, uses 'exhibitions to educate people.' New York Daily News: Shantrelle Lewis shares her love of African-American art, history and culture.
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African-American art, history and culture have been a part of Shantrelle Lewis' life, almost as long as she can recall.
"I was immersed in history and culture by my family," Lewis said. "My father would make me write out my family tree. I could go back to my great-, great-grandparents, and a little further."
Which is how she knew that she is a descendant of Henri Christophe, who in 1811 was named the first king of the newly free Haiti.
"My parents bought me books about black history, African history when I was 5 years old," she said. "I knew who Toussaint L'Overture was, Cinque and Harriet Tubman were. They wanted me to know I did not come from enslaved people, but from warriors and revolutionaries. They were instilling pride in me."
It worked.
A New Orleans native, Lewis, 32, received a bachelor's degree in African American History from Howard University in 2000 and a master's in the same discipline from Temple University in 2006.
She has taught African-American history in a Washington charter school and worked at three African-American-themed museums, one of which, The George and Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art in New Orleans, she helped revitalize after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
For just over a year, the Brooklyn resident has been director of Programs & Exhibitions at the Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in Manhattan.
It's her dream job.
Shantrelle Lewis, director of programming at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in Manhattan, uses 'exhibitions to educate people.'
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Congratulations to Dr. Raynard Kington, Grinnell College's new president (the college's first Black, gay, Unitarian president The Chronicle of Higher Education For Grinnell’s New President, Tense Negotiations Over Sheet Cake
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It’s not every day that you see a college president in the thick of negotiations over a make-or-break issue—especially not an issue so serious that he invites the other party, perhaps a little bit threateningly, to "step outside." But even before Raynard S. Kington, Grinnell College’s new president, sat down near me at a recent community dinner at a local school, he clearly had his hands full.
I mean that literally. He came in to a room crowded with school-lunch tables carrying his 18-month-old son, Basil, while his 4½-year-old, Emerson, raced ahead, darted back, vanished, reappeared, and vanished again. By the time Dr. Kington worked his way through the line and carried a tray loaded with tortilla casserole to one of the few empty seats, Basil was squirming and Emerson was already asking for cake. Dr. Kington, a physician and public-health researcher who came to Grinnell this summer after a stint as deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, spent the next 10 or 15 minutes negotiating with Emerson over how much casserole he would have to eat before he could have any of the sheet cake, which celebrated the 10th anniversary of the city’s community dinners.
With a gravity that would have been appropriate in a Congressional hearing, Dr. Kington insisted on a five-bite minimum. Emerson, with the impetuousness of a 4½-year-old (or perhaps a senator), sulked and cried and wailed until finally Dr. Kington suggested that it was time for the two of them to step outside. Basil, meanwhile, was eating enthusiastically in the lap of the college’s communication director, Kate Worster; Dr. Kington’s spouse, Peter T. Daniolos, a child psychiatrist, was still on his way back to Grinnell after his first day in his new job at the University of Iowa.
It’s been an interesting year for Dr. Kington, who is not just Grinnell’s first openly gay president but also its first black president, its first president with both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, its first president from Baltimore, and so forth. He likes telling the story of a meeting around the time of his appointment in which someone started a long, serious-sounding paragraph about the comfort levels of people in the community—"Uh oh, here it comes," Dr. Kington was thinking. But the paragraph ended with a punch line: "Not everyone is really open," the speaker said with a grin, "to Unitarians." (Dr. Kington is also, indeed, the college’s first Unitarian president.)
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WOW! A NFL star is about to break ground on a massive Hyatt in Harlem, a neighborhood thirsty for tourist dollars. Loop21: Is Emmitt Smith the next Magic Johnson.
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When it comes to black athletes becoming successful businessmen the gold standard in recent history has been Earvin "Magic" Johnson. But it might be time for the Magic man to make room for the National Football League’s all-time leading rusher Emmitt Smith.
Just like on the gridiron Smith is running hard on the business field as well. His company ESmith Legacy is close to breaking ground on a hotel project on 125th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem.
Not only is Smith modeling Magic’s practice of developing high profile properties in inner cities, but by utilizing $20 million in ARRA bonds (more commonly known as stimulus bonds) as well as New Market Tax Credits to build the 177-room, Hyatt-managed hotel with 100,000 square feet of retail space, Smith deserves some love from Congress and the Obama Administration for showing that government incentives can and do help stimulate the economy. To put a finer point on things ESmith Legacy President Brian Morris has gone on record calling the federal incentives a "linchpin."
Yet even with Smith’s name attached creating major projects in Harlem like this one can be difficult. In 2005, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and then-Gov. George E. Pataki trumpeted the groundbreaking of a hotel at 125th Street and Park Avenue. The developers ultimately scrapped the project.
Meanwhile, at the site of the newly proposed hotel, garbage blows in the wind and signs warn passersby of recently deposited rat poison.
"It really is an eyesore," said Hope Knight, chief operating officer of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Development Corp., who has been holding conversations with the developers about the project. "It's a tremendous opportunity."
Despite these challenges Smith and company just may have the right pieces in place to make the project a success. Not only are they putting up a hotel, but the plans call for the first and second floor retail space to house a Whole Foods supermarket, while the third and fourth floors will be space for a YMCA and a cultural center.
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Senate Approves $1B Black Farmer Settlement. CBS: Money Would go to Settle Longstanding Claims Against Government for Discrimination, Lack of Royalties
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The Senate has approved almost $4.6 billion to settle long-standing claims brought by American Indians and black farmers against the government.
The money has been held up for months in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans squabbled over how to pay for it. The two class action lawsuits were filed over a decade ago.
The settlements include almost $1.2 billion for black farmers and $3.4 billion would go to Indian landowners. The legislation was approved in the Senate by voice vote Friday and sent to the House.
The farmers sued after decades of discrimination by the agriculture department in providing loans and other support, reports CBS News' Bob Fuss, while the Native Americans had been cheated by the Interior Department over royalties from income from tribal lands.
"The passage of this bill is long overdue," said John Boyd, head of the National Black Farmers Association. "Twenty-six years justice is in sight for our nation's black farmers."
Lawmakers from both parties have said they support resolving the long-standing claims of discrimination and mistreatment by federal agencies. But the funding has been caught up in a fight over spending and deficits. Republicans repeatedly objected to the settlements when they were added on to larger pieces of legislation. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., satisfied conservative complaints by finding spending offsets to cover the cost.
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The rise of China in Africa. NYT: Zambia Balances Aid From China and Resentment
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Hundreds of angry coal miners pushed toward the locked gate at Shaft 3, shouting and cursing as they neared the mine’s Chinese managers, who understood neither the English nor the Tonga words of the mob. As the workers butted up against the fence, the bosses grew more fearful and finally two fired their shotguns.
The Zambian miners scrambled in terror. Bodies pivoted, jounced and stumbled. Boston Munakazela did not know he was hit until he suddenly fell over and saw the blood on his chest and arms. Vincent Chenjele was knocked off his bicycle with a hole ripped in his belly. Wisborn Simutombo, bleeding from his arms, legs and stomach, pleaded with friends to pull him to safety across the coal-dusted road.
"We weren’t going to hurt them, but maybe the Chinese didn’t understand that," Mr. Simutombo, 25, said recently, displaying scars left by the spray of shotgun pellets. "They were quick to shoot us though, and in Zambia the Chinese can get away with anything."
As in many other African nations, the Chinese are an enormous economic presence in this impoverished but mineral-rich country, and their treatment of local workers has become an explosive political issue, presenting an awkward balancing act for governments desperate for foreign investment. "We’re an economy in transition, and we can’t afford to lose the cow that gives us milk today," said Labor Minister Austin Liato.
Chinese investment here amounted to $1.2 billion in just the past year, according to the government. Nearly two-thirds of new construction involves Chinese-run companies, said Li Qiangmin, the Chinese ambassador in Lusaka, the capital. In this nation of 12 million where a small minority of workers, perhaps one in 10, have salaried employment, the 25,000 jobs provided by Chinese-backed businesses and projects are badly needed.
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Cholera in Haiti. NYT: Haitians Plunge Into Muck to Stem Cholera
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Duquesne Fils-Aimé, stripped to the waist, stepped gingerly into the canal, drawing stares of astonishment from the spectators above. When he ducked his head under the water — if one could call it that — an audible gasp rose from the crowd.
Plastic bottles and bags, shredded underwear, shoes and endless globs of unidentifiable black muck bobbed like a fetid tarp around Mr. Fils-Aimé and his colleagues as they started another shift — cleaning out the canal by hand.
On and on they worked in the drink, making little progress but at least a little cash in a Sisyphean battle against the squalor that chokes the canals and ditches passing as sewers, causes floods of wastewater and helps spread the cholera epidemic now gripping more than half the country.
"We do the bad," Mr. Fils-Aimé, 41, said of his work, "and maybe people won’t get sick."
At least there were no animal carcasses that day; the men have seen plenty of them — dogs, rats, goats. They swam a few strokes, black water slopping over them in a stench many layers thick. At one point, Mr. Fils-Aimé sat entirely supported on the filth as if shipwrecked, fishing out debris to the lucky crew member on dry land.
The job pays $112 a month, and the men are thankful for it, even though they say they sometimes go weeks without getting paid. Unemployment is so crushing here that for some, it is the first steady work they have ever had.
Damon Winter/The New York Times
Duquesne Fils-Aimé regularly wades into a river of waste in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to clean out the city’s canals. Despite the filth, he is thankful for the job, he said.
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One of the saddest stories I have read all year. The Root: Educating Black Boys: Where Are the Parents?
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Recent studies show that little white boys who go to school hungry still perform better on achievement tests than black boys who come from privileged homes.
If that's truly the case, then black parents who wonder why there's such a wide gap in grades and test results between the races have only themselves to blame.
According to a deflating assessment of black boys' scholastic status nationwide, a stable home is no guarantee of success. This comes as troubling news to households like mine -- where Mommy and Daddy have overextended themselves to make sure their first-grader attains every educational advantage available in an inner-city setting.
Of course schools must be held more accountable when there's proof that black boys rank far below whites in basic assessments. But the new data -- and experts' opinions on how to counteract the problem -- highlight more than ever that black parents aren't emphasizing schoolwork enough.
The Council of the Great City Schools' recent report about discrepancies between black and white boys' scores on math and reading tests paints a dire picture of what the future holds. Culled from disturbing data accumulated by the National Assessment for Educational Progress, the report suggests that even the few Fresh Princes among us are likely to perform worse in school than their Slim Shady peers. More forebodingly, the council's "Call for Action" report cites congressional intervention as a prime solution to the educational crisis.
Just how likely are the Tea Partiers taking hold in Congress to address the plight of black boys in the coming years? And if President Barack Obama dared to pick up the mantle on behalf of a generation of boys whose educational prospects appear dimmer now than they did during the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka era, how would stingy conservatives react?
The findings -- which the council calls "jaw-dropping" -- spark debate among academics, social-policy experts and bloggers over what's actually causing the drastic achievement gap, and whether there's a viable solution.
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This is a big deal because so many of our future leaders come from elite universities. Colorlines: Blacks and Latinos Still Locked Out of Elite Colleges
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A new report shows that blacks and Latinos might be gaining more access to higher education, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re gaining access to all tiers of the system. The study, led by Michael Bastedo, a professor at the University of Michigan, says that even though college-going rates for blacks and Latinos are on the rise, they’ve been accompanied by a parallel increase in admissions standards which have locked them out of the top colleges, and only further entrenched stratification in the higher education world.
What people already know is that a college education from a community college is not the same as one from an Ivy League university, let alone one that students get from a private college or a state school. And even though community colleges remain an important entry point for many into higher education, people who start at community colleges end up leaving before obtaining a diploma, and the most selective universities offer long-term benefits—access to networks and opportunities—that go far beyond the classroom.
Blacks and Latinos end up disproportionately in community colleges or even at for-profit schools, while whites and Asian-Americans (the study does not disaggregate this data into ethnic breakdowns) have made gains to end up in four-year public and private colleges. And the most selective schools have tougher admissions standards these days, requiring extracurricular activities, AP classes and ever-higher SAT scores, which in turn has only further entrenched inequities in the higher ed world.
"Just as they improve their own qualifications, what is being asked of them by our colleges is increasing, " said Bastedo.
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Voices and Soul
by Justice Putnam
Black Kos Tuesday's Chile, Poetry Editor
One of the American Myths about Thanksgiving is how a bounty of riches was bestowed and shared; that God's goodness shone down from above and anointed all with an infinite Grace. It's nice to think so. It's nice to think that benevolence and friendship forged the bessemer of this Nation.
If only it were true.
The truth is that this nation was forged with the white-hot ingots of conquest, genocide and slavery; there is a reckoning and it will be discussed at...
The Powwow at the End of the World
I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
after an Indian woman puts her shoulder to the Grand Coulee Dam
and topples it. I am told by many of you that I must forgive
and so I shall after the floodwaters burst each successive dam
downriver from the Grand Coulee. I am told by many of you
that I must forgive and so I shall after the floodwaters find
their way to the mouth of the Columbia River as it enters the Pacific
and causes all of it to rise. I am told by many of you that I must forgive
and so I shall after the first drop of floodwater is swallowed by that salmon
waiting in the Pacific. I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
after that salmon swims upstream, through the mouth of the Columbia
and then past the flooded cities, broken dams and abandoned reactors
of Hanford. I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
after that salmon swims through the mouth of the Spokane River
as it meets the Columbia, then upstream, until it arrives
in the shallows of a secret bay on the reservation where I wait alone.
I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall after
that salmon leaps into the night air above the water, throws
a lightning bolt at the brush near my feet, and starts the fire
which will lead all of the lost Indians home. I am told
by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
after we Indians have gathered around the fire with that salmon
who has three stories it must tell before sunrise: one story will teach us
how to pray; another story will make us laugh for hours;
the third story will give us reason to dance. I am told by many
of you that I must forgive and so I shall when I am dancing
with my tribe during the powwow at the end of the world.
-- Sherman Alexie
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The Front Porch is now open. The table is laden with good things to eat, and everyone is bringing a favorite dessert.
Let us all be thankful for how far down the road we have traveled and that we have good friends to accompany us in the battles yet to be won.
Be safe, eat well, and remember to share with others.