Posted on 12/26/2016 1:27:42 PM PST by rey
Snip In his 14 years at the school, Lyon has performed no reading remotely like the one that resonated throughout the historic campus two days after the presidential election in November. He said the response of many Latino students to the election of Donald Trump compelled him to write and broadcast the piece.
The day after the election, “it felt like a funeral,” he said. “People were wearing black and crying. It felt like death.”
Lyon had students coming up and asking, “Are they going to deport me now?” He felt the fear was pervasive. About half the student body is Latino, and many students who are citizens have parents or other family members who risk deportation. Non-Latino students feared for their friends.
“It’s hard to find a kid who doesn’t feel threatened,” Lyon said.
He found that he had to declare something to all of the students worried the president-elect’s vision for America does not include them.
“I felt like silence was unacceptable,” the teacher said.
He sat and found that the words to “We Love You No Matter What,” pretty much streamed out of him.
A student used a cellphone to video him as he spent four emphatic and impassioned minutes delivering his poem over the school’s public address system. He began, “You guys that don’t like my poems, please respect this one.”
Then he launched into the piece that cemented his place as the Panthers’ poet laureate. An excerpt:
Dear undocumented students,
In this school
There are no walls
To keep you out
Dear black students,
Your lives matter
To us
Dear Muslim students, You are not terrorists
(Excerpt) Read more at pressdemocrat.com ...
Until your Christian-hating parents strap a suicide vest on you and send you back to school. Doesn't matte to them how many undocumented students or black lives they also snuff out.
Yes, my daughter used to live there. Beautiful country north of San Francisco, full of illegals.
“They don’t need any of our land. Have them do a “Trail of Liberal Tears” into Mexico. Baja should be big enough to make their paradise in.”
Fine by me, as long as we make them walk there.
“As the punchline to the old joke says, “But you took the part of Mexico with all the roads!”
I don’t remember that joke. Anyway, if they didn’t want to lose those territories, they shouldn’t have started a war with us.
Hope so
End government control of schools now!
No, No, No, mi amigo, that won't start until January 21st, you have plenty of time.
My Latino students were laughing and teasing each other. “Oooo, you’re gonna have to go live in Mexico!” “I am not, YOU are! Shut up!”
Many teachers are lunatics...LIB lunatics.
“We’ve got educated, talented (and law abiding) people standing in line to immigrate to this country, real immigrants who could contribute and make America stronger”
Like my BIL, who came here over 50 years ago from Turkey, to go to engineering school. Fell for my Sister, and emigrated. He’s a proud American citizen. Built a great company that makes special diamond tooling for our areospace industry.
Or my Shanghai-born ladyfriend, who is a CPA. Took them both years to become citizens, but they don’t regret doing it! Frustrating though!
No indication of how many times the girls saw his hairy legs under the stall door.
When Bill Clinton was elected, my fellow secretaries and I (all Republicans), wore an agreed-upon post-election outfit of red skirt, white blouse, and black jacket, as we all cheerfully did our jobs, same as any other day.
Well past liberal. Stalinist-Fascist.
Not only does the 14th amendment NOT give anchor babies citizenship we need the Congress per Article I Section 8 Clause 4 to declare once and for all they don’t . Thank Gd the (D)generates couldn’t force this in in their favor before
“They’re very serious, and if we don’t take them seriously, they’ll be the ones that get the last laugh.”
I realize that they’re serious. That doesn’t make it any less absurd. And to me, funny. I read an article shortly after the election results were in. The idiot penning the article said, “Women suffering from terminal illnesses are devastated. Some of them thought that at least they’d live long enough to see a woman elected president.” HILARIOUS!!!
Generation snowflake indeed...the next 4 years are going to be very unnerving for these morons.
Why not let them secede? No way we give up California to them. California is beautiful and productive country, and America’s manifest destiny was and is to extend from sea to sea.
Besides, if you roll it real tight and jab or swing it just right, a coloring book can be a deadly weapon.
(How do you spell lame-o ?)
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