Post by the Scribe on Dec 1, 2021 7:11:28 GMT
Pandemics and politics
full article: news.yahoo.com/music-legend-linda-ronstadt-honors-124019067.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Ronstadt, like many Americans, is spending more time reading at home as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic.
Amid a national racial reckoning triggered by nationwide protests over George Floyd's death and presidential election, Ronstadt has been "reading everything I can about the current situation," as well as revisiting the history of Black people in the U.S. She has also been reading about the Weimar Republic — the German government before Hitler's Nazi regime.
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The exercise, she said, has allowed her to see many parallels between the past and the present.
"I think that anybody that has read Black history couldn't argue with the idea that reparations are in order," said Ronstadt, a longtime political activist. "I think that anybody who learns about the Weimar Republic can't disagree that the years before the Nazi takeover were alarming like ours right now, when you have people convinced that they were being screwed and they were being mistreated and that somebody was to blame. Back then, they blamed it on the Jews. Now, they're blaming Mexicans, and it's just so obvious."
IMAGE: Linda Ronstadt in 2013 (Amy Sussman / Invision/AP)
Ronstadt said that "once a democracy fails, it almost never reinstates itself."
"It almost always goes into a totalitarian government, and there's nothing you can do about it," she said.
She said, "It's time for Latinos to stop being invisible and to stop being dismissed as unnecessary, deficient or less than."
Ronstadt, who grew up near the southern border, said recent changes in immigration policies have endangered the lives of many people trying to seek asylum in the U.S. That motivated her to get involved with the charity One Story at a Time. It works to help migrants who have been affected by the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policies, which require those seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait in Mexico while their cases go through U.S. courts — a process that could take years.
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"When you see injustices, when you see somebody being harassed on the street or children locked up in cages and separated from their families, thousands of children getting lost in the system," Ronstadt said, "when you see terrible irregularities — you have to say you won't stand for it."
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full article: news.yahoo.com/music-legend-linda-ronstadt-honors-124019067.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Ronstadt, like many Americans, is spending more time reading at home as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic.
Amid a national racial reckoning triggered by nationwide protests over George Floyd's death and presidential election, Ronstadt has been "reading everything I can about the current situation," as well as revisiting the history of Black people in the U.S. She has also been reading about the Weimar Republic — the German government before Hitler's Nazi regime.
www.nbcnews.com/americas-racial-reckoning
www.nbcnews.com/george-floyd-death
www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-presidential-election
The exercise, she said, has allowed her to see many parallels between the past and the present.
"I think that anybody that has read Black history couldn't argue with the idea that reparations are in order," said Ronstadt, a longtime political activist. "I think that anybody who learns about the Weimar Republic can't disagree that the years before the Nazi takeover were alarming like ours right now, when you have people convinced that they were being screwed and they were being mistreated and that somebody was to blame. Back then, they blamed it on the Jews. Now, they're blaming Mexicans, and it's just so obvious."
IMAGE: Linda Ronstadt in 2013 (Amy Sussman / Invision/AP)
Ronstadt said that "once a democracy fails, it almost never reinstates itself."
"It almost always goes into a totalitarian government, and there's nothing you can do about it," she said.
She said, "It's time for Latinos to stop being invisible and to stop being dismissed as unnecessary, deficient or less than."
Ronstadt, who grew up near the southern border, said recent changes in immigration policies have endangered the lives of many people trying to seek asylum in the U.S. That motivated her to get involved with the charity One Story at a Time. It works to help migrants who have been affected by the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policies, which require those seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait in Mexico while their cases go through U.S. courts — a process that could take years.
just1atatime.org/about/
"When you see injustices, when you see somebody being harassed on the street or children locked up in cages and separated from their families, thousands of children getting lost in the system," Ronstadt said, "when you see terrible irregularities — you have to say you won't stand for it."
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