The Scattered Student Protestors

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I don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner, as I’m not a professional or amateur protestor. But though I wrote a short article about how I thought the best way to protest should be, I fear it was somehow blocked or something, maybe use of the G-Word, or the J-side in Gaza. So, I won’t use the word just in case. But it turns out — I hate to say this — on further reflection that I was actually righter that I knew (or lefter).

Yes, that’s according to me, which makes me seem super-arrogant given my profound respect not just for Muslim, black American, and white students on university campuses, but for Jewish protestors who shut down Grand Central in New York City to stop the G-side and American support for it, Holocaust survivors and their children who protest with Palestinians in London and elsewhere I’ve seen — the list goes on.

But it was a conversation with some students — my nephew who just finished graduate school and his “Mexican” girlfriend, who is very “mixed race” heritage and technically an American citizen by birth but whose mother owns two sushi restaurants on the other side of the Texas-Arizona border. Both of them told me of their sincere efforts to not by Starbucks coffee because of its support of Israel, and how student activists boycotted the one on campus of the University…