Opinion

  (At the crossroad of a new beginning, presenting you Christian Garduno's thoughts penned in the November of 2020) Being Brown in today’s America means being see-through, it means being transparent.  If you get too uppity, they’ll call you a Communist and try to send you to Cuba. If  you get too MAGA, then they’ll call you a sell-out. The middle path is usually the best, just kind of being there, without really ever being there. You can feel the walls of repression closing in- Charlottesville, the Muslim Ban, brown kids in cages along the Southern border. You have to keep your head down and just get your job done. Don’t spend too much time talking about Fox News or current events- don’t stand around long enough to cast a shadow- keep it moving. The same type of thing happened with Reagan. The further right the country goes, the faster and harder they lash at the Mexicans. In order to avoid this persecution, we trade in the Zoot suit for the plain polo t-shirt, the