23 years in Los Angeles, and it has come to this
As I write this and approach my L.A.nniversary (June 27), the city I live in, the city I've proudly called home for more than half my life, has been under attack. And this is after surviving a global pandemic, earthquakes, union strikes, civil unrest, and record-breaking wildfires – just in the last five years. If you have the patience or even the basic human desire to be informed by reputable media outlets and news sources, then you've seen that peaceful protesters, who have the Constitutional right to voice their concerns and dissent on unlawful immigration raids (a fact , not an opinion), were met with brute force by militarized troops in downtown L.A. earlier this month. With the way they've been treated, you'd think they were insurrectionists. But then again, the real insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6 – the ones who wanted to hang a vice president and harm members of Congress – were pardoned by the current president they blindly worship. If yo...
