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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

OUR SF UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT - MUST REPRESENT ALL WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION - THAT SURELY INCLUDES - OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS FROM THE MIDDLE-EAST - MORE SF THE ARAB RESOURCE & ORGANIZING CENTER




San Francisco Unified School has a deep responsibility to represent all students of San Francisco - follow the State laws, the Federal laws - and of course the local ordinances, rules and regulations.

More when the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) - deals with our immigrant children from all over the world - more those countries that are discriminated against - Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq - your get my drift.

The high-toned Chair - Hydra who now heads the SFUSD - known to wheel and deal with entities such as Willie L. Brown Jr and Salesforce - has - now the responsibility to give the Arab Resource and Organizing Center - a voice to represent and help our students from the Middle-East - that has even reached out to the students who have immigrated here from Vietnam.

A Memoranda of Understanding - must be crafted - notice and the agenda item - vetted, read and deliberated - with input from the community at large. We the people demand it - and we the people will see that it is implemented. 



Members from the Arab Resource & Organizing Center.

Arab Resource & Organizing Center  (AROC)- a grassroots organization formed to empower and help students and others - has long been know to help immigrant students - whose first language is Arabic.

AROC has gone out of its way to embrace families - more immigrant families from the Middle-East and elsewhere who speak Arabic - supporting immigrants - to stabilize themselves - introducing them to people and agencies that allow our valued immigrants - to contribute to the United States of America.

We advocates more those with our heart in the right place - have a long history - with our Arab sisters and brothers - I remember well taking on KGO in the early 1980s - some of those on KGO radio - tarnishing the name of the Palestinians - not because there was a reason - but more to show case the plight of the Israelis - when the opposite is true.



San Francisco has always embraced all - we have a special relationship with our Palestinian sisters and brothers - getting to know many of them - throughout our neighborhoods - daily visiting their stores - to buy the necessary groceries - and as thousands of us got to know our neighborhood store owner better - we found out the injustices meted out to our Palestinians sisters and brother - in their Motherland.



A thousand year old plus Olive Tree.







A Palestinian clinging to her Olive Tree -
even as those that have NO conscience -
root up the Olive Trees - in a nonchalant manner -
such are the deeds witnessed daily by those who 
lived on the land for thousands of years.

Here in San Francisco - we get entrapped by the nonsense we here - misinformation - in the Main Media - you know controlled by whom.

 However, when you read the early history - more the Ottoman Empire - you learn how the Jews were taken out of Palestine - many enslaved - how they spread all over Europe intermarrying - bastardizing their genes - product of today's Zionists.

Every Zionist is a Jew - but NOT every Jew is a Zionists.

The Palestinians are all brothers and sisters - those who profess the faith of their great, great grand fathers and mothers - be they Muslim, Orthodox Christians, Jew,  many other faiths - who all lived in peace - mostly.

As with other countries and nations thorough out the world - intermittent wars - were fought, treaties signed -  and life went on.

The many invasions be it from the Romans, the Turks, the British - all influenced the land and the people of Palestine.

Depriving the Palestinians - more those that are tied to their Mother Land for thousands of years - must be taken into account. The Palestinians are forced to jump many hurdles - just to visit their ancestral lands. 

Many wait days to cross a border - while all the time - they can view their ancestral land - just a few hundreds yards - away.

Others are abused - for no reason - the land seized, thousands of years old Olive Trees - uprooted - the unending saga - is too much to bear - for anyone - even some like me - who has taken the cause of the Palestinians and others - for over 40 years.

Here in the United States we do not bother to teach the true history, geography, sociology, philosophy, theology, building true cultural competency - and try our best - explaining to all about " explicit bias ".

From very young I was exposed to the Yemani from Zanzibar and Yemen, the Palestinian from Palestine, the Jew who just happened to come from Poland - yet, tried to tell me that he was from Palestine.

 Of course all this happened on a neutral land - Nairobi, Kenya - where I was born and lived with people - from all over the world.

As I grew up and travelled the world - I learn more - most of my keen knowledge about the Jews - in Vienna, Austria. More, when I lived  in Germany - in Nuremberg.

Here is San Francisco I represent the Muwekma Ohlone - the First People of San Francisco.




The flag of the United States -
here is the State - we embrace all -
yet, again and again misinformation -
pervades - bringing about divisiveness -
we are all human - and must learn to live in harmony.

I am close to the Palestinians - the many who hail and come to this land the United States of American - from the Middle-East.

I share the pain, the tribulations - the many hurdles they immigrants  have to go through - many of them still under some passport issued to them by the United Nations - the land of their ancestors - the Middle-East.

The recent bombings in Yemen - thousands of infants, children, youth, young adults, seniors, many others with compromised health - are dying.

It is a shame when with intent - we allow infants and children to die of starvation. Allow those that are innocent - bombed all to satisfy the whims and fancy - of those Nations like Saudi Arabia - we the United States supply them with sophisticated arms, ammoniation - state of the art jet fighters and bombers.




Donald Trump


The children, youth, young adults - professing to speak Arabic as their First Language - have many hurdles - more the Islamophobia that is prevalent in the United States - more with the ego maniac - Donald Trump - in the White House.

The world is laughing at us - we are suppose to be the defender of human rights - but more and more - with so many Consulates and Embassies with Consulates closed  - those of us in the know - understand fully - para-military tactics rule the roost -  shoot first and ask questions - latter.

Our Educational Institutions should be well informed - unfortunately again and again the SF Unified School District -
has failed to provide - quality education.

We advocates find it difficult that our children are pitied one against the other - the many incidents - that are registered - the SF Police Department called - when children most of color  - are targeted - more discriminated.

The Arab Resources & Organizing Center - has a role to play - and important role - embracing our students - those who First Language is Arabic - a language that has contributed to civilization.

Many Arabs and others who speak Arabic - who have contributed so much to the world - our civilization - in the many fields and professions - doctors, scientists, technicians, 
in business, diplomats, education and so on.

The Memoranda of Understanding is long due - and must be attended as soon as possible - meeting and agreeing with the Arab Resource & Organizing Center - to cater to the need of those that speak Arabic and  need help - and commending the AROC reaching out to the student and other from Vietnam.

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