Separate and Unequal
The Immigration Wars: ICE Hostilities and the Rebirth of Labor Camps in the South
separate and unequal
This is not just about religion. or immigration.
Well it is the meaning of religion. Ghandi or Johnson world view on religion.
Or for that matter, any of the authoritarian sorta democracies.
Look at them Netenyahu Putin or head guy in Turkey. Religion is upholder of virtue to your own. Religious kind of nationalism.
Right now the Supreme Court hasn’t really stopped anything. They are all on heritage council and they HATE democrats. And equate democrats with democracy.
Thank you very much.
Civil at crossroads
Have we had military sent into to our streets — by other presidents. Sure. During Sixties even. Sure.
This as an extension of that. All those freedoms we earned. And they are trying to take back.
This Civil war is economic too and pervaded by religious instincts as well. Versus freedom. Esp. women but also all this prayer over there by the hard right — sure it feels good to be filled with spirit, but its also sacrificial and cruel.
Johnson is a christian warrior every death ordained by god. Much much much more than ZM is a muslim warrior.
Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim. But also he’s Asian. And part of Africa too. He is African American, in regard having been born on that continent. Like Musk is too but from a different region.
Not all African Americans are Black. He comes across to me as mostly asian, but born in Uganda. Which I know very little about.
For me since his being of Asian descent, along with him comes Ghandi and Diwali. Which is a Buddhist holiday of lights. And has influence all over Asian culture Muslim too.
And as well, Hinduisms approach to the infinite — Indeed there is much in math about zero (nothingness) and infinities (the all in all) that comes out Asia.
Ramanujan brilliant Indian math guy, did Infinite Series among other things including partitions, and Brahmagupta, a mathematician from Medieval days, introducing concept and computing methods of zero, ANYWAY…
Yes I think Mamdani adheres to things in his neighborhood as a matter of respect for his community. Much like my muslim students at Parsons.
Cross continental — what again
Some of the best leaders in Democratic Party are cross continental and its freaking southern democrats out.
Theirs is the old southern Democratic Party revamped by Nixon and Regan.
Democrats are a very different party. We have an amazing cross section. Our party do a better job at taking care of the country. Republicans of old, and now too, no matter what they pretend or the crumbs they throw at us, they are : business, military and religion.
Beyond that they do nothing for nobody and put all the money, all of it, stolen money really, into military expansion and now on OUR STREETS. All of the deficit is expansion. The cuts to CORPS are basically equal to cuts in health care across the board, all fed health care including research has been cut. And the deficit is military expansion and much of it INTO OUR STREEtS.
Leaders in Democratic Party believe in government including health care, science, and abundance or growth. And they believe in health care for all. Not just themselves and those working for corporations kind enough to do it.
And we have strong people across country, esp out of Kentucky and Arizona. And Pennsylvania and Illinois. Plenty from the military too. Schumer is old school Trump is not. Neither is Mamdani or AOC.
HEY Beshear or AOC
Sorry if I ever spell names wrong. I suck at it because as a writer I play with syllables constantly as a love in my life. Its partially obscene. STOP.
Beshear. Send ZM out with AOC. To where. Michigan + Arizona maybe Pennsylvania PICK ONE. Take it out of the city for a bit.
To meet everybody. Extend hand across the country just to say Hello. Have him show up as surprise on one of AOC’s great gatherings. It will shock them how good he is. Like Obama. Can we have him talk at next convention PLEASE.
Women and brown black asian and white. Gay fem and even anti trump republican.
We want young fresh and charismatic leaders and ZM is one. Will he be tested to the limits and lengths of his governing. Yes. He will. Will he be attacked as badly as we attack Trump. Yes he will. And we will have to fight for him, politically — as politics always includes that.
But like Obama and Kamala, he believes in it all — sees his freedom as an understanding of what america can be. Like both of them. We want that and need it.
St John the Divine
He should join Patti at st John the divine. I dont know. I would love to see him networking the church. And not just Black churches but also White Churches. And keep Lander close. Send Lander out and see if he can meet with Jewish adherents, community in some way that could appease both.
I hate how Trump uses Netenyahu and Israeli wars for his own manipulations here. I like Mamdani cause he aint like that.
It’s a start for him. Like AOC who turned out very talented and the party as a whole likes her now.
They are who they are.
Heritage and oligarchs and who else, churches, oh the civilian Ice them ICE them — CIVILIAN Army.
These guys are civilians they dont go to boot camp and they dont swear on the constitution. They are totally a civilian army. Which means they must be held to account like the police.
Some southern neighborhoods almost everybody belongs to same church — its where everybody goes to for help.
All religions have that — but they heavily prostylatize a type of racism — old fashion religious racism. Some to points of mania. Religion does that to people.
And we dont want to be ruled by the Southern Baptists or the Catholic Church or the Heritage Foundation, and we dont like them using Immigration in order to set up labor camps, or take over our streets and push us around and arrest who ever the fuck they want.
It’s already gone too far. This next year is going to be brutal on the soul of our country.
We must not let up.