The ethnic politics of this community must be complex on all kinds of levels that a gringo like myself would never understand...
...and it was fascinating watching the stage filled with a roster of characters being handed proclamations first by gay California State Senator Mark Leno...
...and then by gay California assemblyman Tom Ammiano who was literally pressed into service...
...for a major photo-op.
At the Census Bureau I am working with a young, native-born San Franciscan whose parents were the Cambodian version of the Hoa, and he'd grown up in the Ternderloin.
"I walked to school by myself from the time I was six," he told me, "and never had any problems. It wasn't until I was in high school that I realized what I was seeing."
The new native-borns look like they're going to be a remarkable crew...
...and I look forward to there being a more prominent Hoa dignitary than war criminal and UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo.
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