immigration nation

and now for something completely different.

For now, I don't really want to rant about the immigration issue. That being said, I will say a couple of things.

Such as, isn't it interesting that this is such an issue at this time of year? Surfing around a little, I notice stuff up on search engines and news sites about Cinco de Mayo, and I think about celebrants, and parties, and if this year any of that will be different in the U.S. I remember last year in Denver- traffic was hellish. There were parties seemingly on every square inch of everywhere. I think every cop west of the mighty Mississip was in the greater metro area, and you couldn't turn west off of Federal. I needed to turn west off of Federal. Thank you.

Obviously, the demographics are slightly different in Indianapolis, but we have many hispanic neighbors here. There have been demonstrations in the city, sizeable ones, where the anglo population has been represented as well. There are so many aspects of hispanic culture integrated into our "American" (don't forget, they are American too, as are everyone that lives in either north or south America- we don't hold right to that term, only "U.S. Citizen") lives that at times it is difficult to see where one culture stops and another begins. That is the point after all, is it not, of this great melting pot? Where all races are as one, and no man is above the law of the land (or below it)? Ha. Equality is a concept we will never perfectly grasp. However, I will say this- let us extend hospitality. Let us be good neighbors. Let us express gratitude, and tell the truth. Let us be a community, each in our own home, with our own neighborhood, and outward across the nation. The immigration nation.