Welcome to the July issue of Diversity Rules Magazine. It is crazy that we are entering the 7th month of the year! Time is flying by, but it brings us one month closer to the Midterms and removing the cancer called the GOP from Congress.
This month’s feature is an interview by David-Elijah Nahmod with Stephanie Major, the Editor of a new book called Haute Dish: Voices of Resilience.
As per David’s interview, “It’s been a rough year for the citizens of Minnesota’s Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul. ICE, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, invaded the area this past winter and deported hundreds of residents, many of whom were here legally. Families were broken up, with ICE even resorting to violence, killing two young Minneapolis residents, Renne Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, neither of whom was an immigrant. The residents of the Twin Cities took to the streets in anger, loudly condemning both the killings of Good and Pretti, as well as the deportations.
Now, students at Metro State University in St. Paul have responded to the horrors that ICE brought to the area in a new anthology titled Voices of Resilience. In this collection of poems, memoir pieces, and fiction, the students have written eloquently about the endurance of the human spirit. The book poses the question, what does it take to survive, and what does that survival leave behind?”
It sounds like a very compelling book. It certainly is a testimony to the bravery of our fellow citizens in Minnesota to combat our American Gestapo. We must meet them on the front lines everywhere and stop them as best we can. They are truly as fascist as it can get, with their masks, bully tactics, and a few murders on the side. It disgusts and repulses me, as I am sure it does most of you reading this.
The battle is being waged on our streets. We must persevere and never give up. Since coming out, I have always been one to stand my ground. The sentiment is no different now, battling the evil that comes at us from Washington from a wholly un-American President — occupant, as I like to call him, among many other names. The sooner we can get rid of this repugnant man and his evil MAGAT minions, the better. We can start the job this fall. We cannot fail. We must not fail. Bringing sanity and Democrats back in charge will be a huge step in regaining some normalcy and sanity that are currently missing and dearly missed.
I hope you all have a great summer. Stay on guard. Be safe, and keep the spirit of Minnesota alive every day. We can win. We will win. The America we have now is not the one we want or deserve. Alas, we (collectively) did all this to ourselves. But on the flip side, we can fix it and remove this poison called Trump.
See you in August.