General Discussion

Thank you. Minor point, but in this case an important one, I think.

People are being targeted because of their ethnicity and national origin. It is entirely proper and powerful for us to carry the Mexican flag, and the Guatemala flag, and the Haitian flag, etc.

People have been driven from their home countries, in large part due to US policies and US corporate interests, enforced by the US military. They are being persecuted and abused here. Absolutely - fly those flags, it is about reclaiming stolen identities, stolen land, stolen culture, stolen lives. It is time for a deeper reckoning about the root causes of the struggle. We can support that, or we can nitpick about demonstration etiquette or obsess over how we look on Fox news.

This uproar about the Mexican flags is akin to the "all lives matter" nonsense. In both cases, it is about denying people's right to self-identification.