Kevin,

My thanks!

Please feel free to check out my latest Diary and titled, “The Big Ruckus and America’s ‘slow learners’” here at the Lake, and in the last paragraph, you’re article on Montes, is highlighted, for even greater attention.

Jaango

This is all kabuki crappola.

In the final analysis, the decision-makers will be Obama, Reid and McConnell.

Jaango

Here in Arizona, we, the Native Americans and Chicanos, have never expected that the DOJ would “toss into jail” this Sheriff that is representative of the overall attitude toward minorities. And all this has been part and parcel to HB 1070 and it’s “companero” piece of crappola that is HB 2281 and in which I, should I advocate that white kids be taught a “foreign language” in our public school system, I would be prosecuted for “overthrowing the Constitution.” If so, I would be branded a “terrorist” despite my being a military vet.

Regardless, both peices of legislation (SB 1070 and HB 2281) lays the foundation for Arizona being effectively described as an “An Officially Racist State.”. And thinking otherwise, demonstrates that a large portion of the majority of the white population–Republican and Democratic, alike, continue to espouse this Criminal Stupidity that animates the Republican politics. Consequently, the “camouflaged” conservative Democrats are valuable allies for the Right and the ever-present Independents make this political marriage exceedingly possible.

Jaango

Since I am a Big Fan of the Progressive Caucus, this effort being led by the Former Senator and whom has the audacity to call himself a “progressive” and while serving in the Senate, Couldn’t and didn’t bring himself to establish a Progressive Caucus in the Senate.

Consequently, this abject failure by the likes of Durbin, Schumer, Sherrod Brown, and others, “opens the door” for the likes of Pelosi and others in the House to “default” when it comes to the Republican “take down” of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that are valuable to the “new” Poor and the “near” poor or the fomerly Middle Class.

In closing, I give Feingold, a big Thumbs Down. To wit, he always been far behind the “power curve” located in the Senate. Thas’s was his history.

Jaango

The notion for “Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil” will continue to matter, regardless of the Image or the Idea. Take for example, here in the Sonoran Desert and among the Native Americans and the Chicanos, the “platform” for delivering such “news” is what will become important, and not so much, the story.

Why?

The current mainstream media outlets, with their self-restrictive editorial directions, policies and stories, does not comfit our respective communities since their delivery staffers are unable to speak Yaqui or Apache, for example. Of course, this is by intent. Thusly, language and culture will have to be addressed, otherwise, eyeballs and ears will go in the direction where this attraction is composed and delivered. And that leaves a ‘network’ of Chicano panelists, speaking English, to deliver a valuable insight into a particular Chicano community, and made available to a Spanish-speaking America, what’s important and what’s propaganda.

Of course, the “shake-out” will actually occur within the next 40 years when “racial and ethnics” become the ‘majority’ and that means that the New York Times, the Washington Post, and etcetera, will enter Our World, the Sharp Elbows of Competition, and without the burden for having to compete with media monopolies. Ultimately, this will be a boon for progressive communities and where ‘government intervention’ for such outdates notions such as the Great Society and with a new and improved Great Society Two, courtesy of “racial and ethnics.” Otherwise, the “old and tired white dudes” will continue to rule the roost.

In closing, Spanish language television and the Huffington Post (internet)will prove “to be a bust” for our communities.

Jaango