Celebrating America's diversity isn't unAmerican.
Cultural diversity is American.
Remember: It's our nation's motto: E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.
The 32nd annual Greater Medford MultiCultural Fair will take place next Saturday, September 27, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. It will be at Pear Blossom Park on Bartlett Street in Medford, next to the Lithia Building.
It's a feel-good, easy-going, colorful, party-atmosphere outdoor event. People sing and dance on stage. Kids wander around. Food trucks. Booths from local groups.
When the City of Medford sanctioned the MultiCultural Commission and its headline event, the MultiCultural Fair, 32 years ago there was no special political implication. There was a sense of pride that Medford was "growing up," getting big enough to have some diversity.
The MultiCultural Fair continues as a patriotic celebration. There are American flags, the pledge of allegiance, and a celebration of America as a place where people from different lands came together. I attend every year. My wife, Debra Lee, is founder of the event, and in recent years our son, Dillon, has helped organize it. They are doing so again this year.
Below are images from last year:
Song and dance:
A little bit of politics. Democrats had a booth last year, with a cut-out image of President Trump, dressed in a shirt the real Trump would not be wearing:
A booth where people were given supplies to paint a tile to take home. It is a coaster for my coffee cup. This booth is returning this year.
5 comments:
Thank you, Peter. I love it. Unfortunately, we’re going to be on the coast next weekend, but we’ve certainly enjoyed the Multicultural Fair in the past.
As far as I’m concerned, having people of different races, religions and cultures living and working together in relative peace and harmony is what makes America great. We’ve come a long way since the days not so long ago when Whites could lynch Blacks and shoot Indians with impunity. Our diversity is something to be celebrated. It’s too bad our racist president and his deplorable cult have their knickers in such a twist about it.
Jews, Muslims, Christians, Protestant-Catholic, Asian, White, Indian, black, heterosexual, homosexual, male, female, educated, non educated, rich, poor, north, south, Democrat, Republican: rather than dividing let’s accept each other.
Drawings of watermelon have recently become a symbol of support for the Palestinians. I already didn’t like watermelon; now I really don’t like it.
“Out of many, one”, or rather “Out of one, many”? In these hypenated-American, tribal times, the order and the priorities are not so straightforward. Well, maybe they are after all….
Don't worry. If Netanyahoo has his way, there soon won't be any Palestinians.
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