I like to let them know that we know.
What IS it anyway with this Latino thing with Fuentes, Tarrio, and Velasquez, and its attraction to a white supremacist ideology when the whole panic about the boarder is based on the premise that the migrants aren’t considered white enough to enter the US?
As they should, of course.
I’ve always wondered in past when I was growing up why one of our cats, usually a bit standoffish, would immediately zero-in on a relative that didn’t like cats when they came to visit.
And then there was my grandfather who had a way with any cat. He could gain a feral cat’s trust, if a cat was in his vicinity they’d zoom right to him. It’s got to be the vibes man.
I was blessed to have known one of those people (Greensboro Sit-In - Facts, Date & Definition | HISTORY). He ended up being my youngest son’s 6th grade Social Studies teacher, a lifelong influence and family friend. His deep kindness, courage, and humanity profoundly impacted my son and me. I cherish his memory.
Totally know what you mean.
It’s simple: just don’t look at the cat. Ignore it, and it will come to you.
That wasn’t quite how it worked for him, but yeah a cat can’t stand to be ignored.
It’s sometimes hard for people who come from modern northern europe to remember that Spain was the original seagoing european empire post-Rome. Those scruffy lighthaired types were among their enslaved rowers. (There’s probably a good argument that the 20th century conflation of hispanic with “brown” comes from the fact that Spain conquered most of a couple of continents and archipelagos, and imposed its language and gene pool on the people who originally lived there.)