Take This Message To My Brother

In Dallas this afternoon the police say there were from 350,000 to half a million people marching to protest the racist bigots (or panderers thereto) who comprise the Republican majority in Congress. The city had less than 1.2 million people counted in 2000, so that would be one-third to one-half of the population. Of course they were not all Hispanics (and just as surely they were mostly citizens and not "illegals"). Some of the Anglos are glowing red now after parading under that clear sunny sky, and will be much browner tomorrow. Local TV covered it, but managed almost no discussion of the issues at stake -- it all became a social event to the media, like a huge Thanksgiving Day parade. Let us hope at least that some politicians pay attention.