Totally agree with Chrystal once again,
That is the point, I can say, what about labor day? or
motherīs daĻ?, itīs just once in a year?
Yes Chrystal, and I sume to your argues, our system as
a whole surely believes we all eat pan cakes all the
time!!!
I tell you, in my community we donīt have energy for
freezers or frozen food, so we eat almost everything
broil, and roots specially, we eat yuca or mandioca
most of the time and two or four more typical roots.
and a cup of tea or coffee or some fruit.
Rice with some beans, perhaps an egg.
Things like that. We donīt know how to do huge
dinners, at all.
Ricardo.
--- Chrystal Ocean <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Some defenders of the holiday season say that it
> enables families to come
> together. That's part of my point. Why does it take
> the holidays for people
> to meet - or for other people, in more privileged
> positions, to arrange for
> poor families to get together?
>
> Consider the holiday celebrants who give 'to the
> hungry' or 'the needy' or
> 'the less fortunate', but only at Christmas.
>
> Why do these people bother giving at all?
> - From obligation, due to religious or cultural
> pressures? If yes, surely
> they must see the hypocrisy!
> - To feel good about themselves? This suggests that
> such feeling can be bought.
> - From guilt, because they have so much and others
> so little? If so, then
> why give just once a year?
>
> Here's what my community would like to tell these
> people: We are not here to
> absolve your conscience. We do not want your gifts.
>
> Shocking, isn't it? How dare we!
>
> We dare. We dare challenge a system that enables
> positions of privilege for
> some and imposes bottom-of-the-food-chain status on
> the rest.
>
> Ocean, WISE Coordinator
> http://www.wise-bc.org/
>
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