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"content": "\u003cp>A young Chalino Sánchez, clad in Western wear and a cowboy hat tilted to one side, could be found selling tapes of his corridos at swap meets or entertaining guests at quinceañeras and baptism parties throughout Southern California in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was just another Mexican immigrant hustling to survive. But within a few years he became a bestselling singer whose music flowed from California to Mexico, mesmerizing fans with his songs about outlaws and drug traffickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His rise to superstardom, however, was cut short by his still unsolved murder in 1992. Sánchez’s remarkable story takes on new life in \u003ca href=\"https://www.futuromediagroup.org/chalinosanchez/\">Idolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez\u003c/a>, an eight-part podcast co-produced by Futuro Media and Sonoro that dropped onto streaming platforms on Feb. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sánchez is considered the king of narcocorridos, a musical genre that some critics say glamorizes the crime, violence and misogyny that has plagued Mexico for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cati V. de los Ríos, assistant professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education\"]‘Corridos remind you of what your abuelitos listened to, what your parents or your tíos and tías listened to. And, it is a form of literacy. It’s a form of reading and writing.’[/pullquote]Still, something about the raw sound of his voice, his rags-to-riches story and his swagger continue to capture fans. You’ve probably heard his tunes even if you only casually listen to Mexican music. Thirty years after his death, the deeply reported Idolo takes a personal look at the singer who was only 31 when he was found shot to death in an irrigation canal the morning after a concert in his home state of Sinaloa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The podcast comes in two versions, with host Erick Galindo telling the story in English, from California, and host Alejandro Mendoza telling it from Mexico, in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been trying to tell this story professionally in mainstream media for like 10 years,” said Galindo, a writer, producer and host for LAist Studios. “[Sánchez] represented so much across cultures. 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In the past, a corrido would summarize or use figurative language to describe crimes or violence, whereas Sánchez used graphic details in his tales of valientes, or brave men, often desperados trying to avoid capture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with a beard wearing a 'Sinaloa' baseball cap.\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Galindo-Headshot_By-Oscar-Rodriguez-Zapata-courtesy-of-Sin-Miedo-Productions-2-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erick Galindo, a Southern California journalist, reported, produced and hosted the English version of the Idolo podcast through his company, Sin Miedo Productions. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oscar Rodriguez Zapata)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Generations of young Mexican Americans have found “a piece of their dignity in his voice, a piece of their story and their family story in his songs,” said Cati V. de los Ríos, an assistant professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, who has researched how students of Mexican descent relate to corridos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Corridos remind you of what your abuelitos listened to, what your parents or your tíos and tías listened to,” she said. “And, it is a form of literacy. It’s a form of reading and writing. It’s through corridos that a lot of young people learn allegory, hyperboles, similes and metaphors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo, whose parents are from Sinaloa, was focused on telling Sánchez’s story in a way that would appeal to other Mexican Americans who also grew up idolizing the singer. The podcast also probes some of the unanswered questions surrounding the singer’s mysterious death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody can find something that they like in this story,” said Jasmine Romero, head of development at Sonoro. “It’s a music story. It’s a true-crime story. It’s a murder mystery. It’s got all of those different elements that make it appealing to all kinds of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sánchez’s songs, which have hundreds of millions of streams on online music platforms, continue to bump from home stereos. He is often compared to hip-hop artists whose music chronicles the stories of struggling people resorting to crime to get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Anman wearing a hats sits cross-legged on a couch.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Alejandro_Chalino-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Mendoza reported from Mexico and hosted the Spanish version of the Idolo podcast. \u003ccite>(Felipe David Campos/Sonoro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Chalino is Mexican, but then goes to LA and is so influential and iconic on both sides of the border,” Romero said. “His career took off because of mixtapes that came out of swap meets in LA. 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There’s too many people who already represent what he represented for millions of immigrants in Los Angeles and in the Bay Area and in Central California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what set Sánchez apart was a singing style he himself referred to as “barking,” and that Galindo describes as “raw and rugged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His fans felt like outsiders,” said Galindo. “It’s the idea that you’re in this country, and you don’t feel like you belong. And here’s a guy who definitely does not sound like he belongs on stage. And he’s doing it anyway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13863441,arts_13900272,arts_13900041\"]Sánchez’s first corrido was about his brother, who immigrated with him to California, and was later killed back in Mexico. The song, “Armando Sánchez,” offers details about the slaying, describing a valiant man who was shot seven times on Dec. 5 at the Santa Rita Hotel in Tijuana by a coward who didn’t give him the chance to react. (The song doesn’t reveal the year of his brother’s death.) Sánchez’s penchant for specificity and paying homage were trademarks of his compositions. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.latinousa.org/2017/11/01/10-best-corridos-chalino-sanchez/\">Check out this primer\u003c/a> on some of his most well-known corridos.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Idolo details, Sánchez spent time in La Mesa prison in Tijuana following his brother’s death. It was there that he honed his songwriting and storytelling skills, earning money by composing tunes for fellow inmates who wanted to be immortalized in a song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Idolo production team decided a podcast about Sánchez needed its own corrido, so a group of musicians and vocalists were assembled to evoke Sánchez’s style. The verses include the refrain, “Ni las ballas pudieron matarlo/Su legado aún sigue vivo tanto aquí como en el otro lado” (“Not even the bullets could kill him/His legacy lives on here just like on the other side”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The podcast digs into the question of whether Sánchez normalized narco culture. Sánchez weaved tales of narco activity, but his songs preceded an explosion of cartel violence in Mexico that has spurred the murder of tens of thousands of people in the last decade alone. The violence has become part of people’s everyday lives, especially in places like Sinaloa, where Sánchez came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Musicians are singing about what’s going on in Mexico, and you cannot blame that on a corrido,” Herrera, the ethnomusicologist, said. “The narco war, the drugs — all that came first and the music is just a reflection of what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galindo said his goal was to discuss Sánchez in all his complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told stories of complicated men, bad guys, sometimes good guys, but oftentimes criminals and violent men,” he said. “But he did tell it in a way that gave them context and dignity. And hopefully, we did that for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Go back to where you came from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an insult that, unfortunately, many of us have heard. For writer, playwright and political commentator Wajahat Ali, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075283913/wajahat-alis-go-back-to-where-you-came-from-is-biting-and-funny-and-full-of-hear\">it’s also the title of his new book\u003c/a> — a memoir he calls “a love letter to a country that doesn’t love us back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book traces Ali’s childhood in Fremont through his activism as a UC Berkeley student after 9/11, and the challenges he’s faced as a son, a father and a writer. It chronicles his near-death from a heart condition, his young daughter getting cancer and his parents going to jail. The book is also, somehow, hysterically funny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali shared some of his reflections about Islamophobia, humor and resilience with The California Report Magazine host Sasha Khokha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interview excerpts have been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On representations of South Asians and Muslims in pop culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Growing up as a child of the ’80s and ’90s, I inhaled American pop culture. Growing up, you don’t sit there and go, “I am a Muslim Pakistani son of immigrants. I am left-handed and wearing Husky pants.” You’re like, “I’m just a kid and I’m an American.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you internalize being the other. You see movies where you are either the sidekick, the villain or you’re completely invisible. Like action movies where Chuck Norris used to go to Middle Eastern countries and just blow up swaths of brown people all the time. He was the hero and you’re rooting for him. Or you’re watching that movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” Even then, as a 5-year-old, I’m like, “This is not how my people are. We don’t eat chilled monkey brains or drink eyeball soup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then you don’t realize, oh, the joke’s on me. I’m the bad guy. What does that do to your sense of self-worth, your self-esteem, your image of beauty? When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you love yourself or do you hate yourself? Are you taught to hate the color of your skin, the shape of your nose, your ethnic last name? Many people, without ever really thinking about it, internalize these images, for the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An excerpt from “Go Back to Where You Came From”:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I’m about as American as chicken korma, apple pie, and chai, but even after forty years, I’m still told to “go back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where, exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In America, who (and what) are you when you’re both “us” and “them”? When I’m a native but seen as a foreigner? When I’m a citizen but also seen as a perpetual suspect? When I’m your neighbor but also seen as an invader? When I’m a cultural creator but also seen as an eraser of white identity and European civilization?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to mainstream code, I will never be “ordinary” or “a real American” from the “Rust Belt” (unless you consider California the heartland which, let’s face it, no one does). My parents are seen by some as potential terrorists because they’re from Pakistan, even though they’ve lived in this country for over forty years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Can I be a “real” American when I’m not white no matter how much Fair & Lovely cream I slather on my skin? The answer in 2022 is “Yes, but with conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I don’t want conditional love. I want more from America and my fellow Americans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 832px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11903778 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/young-waj-fam-e1643842585110.jpeg\" alt=\"group family photo of 5 people\" width=\"832\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/young-waj-fam-e1643842585110.jpeg 832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/young-waj-fam-e1643842585110-800x627.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/young-waj-fam-e1643842585110-160x125.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Wajahat Ali (far left) with family, including his parents and grandmother. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Wajahat Ali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On life as a young Muslim in post-9/11 America\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I was liberal in college and was, I guess you could say, an accidental activist. But a lot of it was book learning. Let me be blunt, and some people might not like to hear this, but a lot of those kids are good, well-intentioned kids who haven’t lived those experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They read about poverty. They haven’t tasted poverty. They read about oppression. They’ve never been oppressed. They’re like cul-de-sac social justice warriors, right? Their heart is in the right place. Their mind is in the right place. I was like that, but I didn’t really taste it. My [immigrant] parents tasted it. But they protected me. So I was kind of in a suburban, protected shell living the American dream. A kid who was at UC Berkeley and was thinking about going to law school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then 9/11 happened, and overnight we became citizens and suspects. Overnight, we became terrorists. The American story had a remake, and tag, Muslims were it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903780\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903780\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"1480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978.jpg 980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978-160x242.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wajahat Ali’s new memoir transforms a painful phrase into a hilarious exploration of Islamophobia and racism. \u003ccite>(Courtesy W.W. Norton and Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We were the villains. Not just Muslims, but those who look Muslim-y. All of a sudden the entire target was on our back. This country went mad after 9/11. This country went so crazy, we renamed french fries as freedom fries. This country went so nuts that they canceled Susan Sontag. They canceled the Dixie Chicks, who are like the whitest women on Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you think they were doing to Muslims? They were surveilling us. They were entrapping us. They went after our organizations. They went after our charities. What is the type of effect that has on Muslims? A chilling effect. Fear. There were hate crimes against Muslim women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was happening as I was a student at UC Berkeley. Overnight I became this accidental activist and this representative of this thing called “Islam” and “Muslims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I learned then that we would have to be something called the “moderate Muslim” in order to be accepted by America. That meant condemning violent acts done by people we’ve never met. Even if we condemned violent acts, and no matter how nice and shiny, we were still seen as suspects. That’s what happened, and we realized, “Oh crap, we’re not white. We’re actually, for a brief moment, living the Black experience in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On ‘actively investing’ in joy and humor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think humor is important for us to simply have catharsis, to have joy. For people of color to have joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two things that have surprised people most about the book is that people didn’t expect it to be so funny, and people didn’t expect it to end on such a hopeful note, and they needed that hope. The hope that I try to give in the book is an earned hope, not a Hollywood Hallmark hope, where they tie on a bow at the end to make you feel better, like cotton candy. It tastes good for the moment, but afterwards you feel really bad and you get angry, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Wajahat-Ali-author-photo-scaled-e1644023476196.jpg\" alt=\"profile headshot with bright pink background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Wajahat Ali has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The New York Times and appeared as a political commentator on CNN. \u003ccite>(Danin Dahlen/HuffPost)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earned hope is confronting the demons, acknowledging them. Walking through the [forest] of horrors and then coming out with the scars and the wounds, but still standing. The journey of horrors, which is the life of so many Americans who still haven’t tasted the American dream. They’ve lived the American nightmare. And this pandemic, which has flattened us but flattened us unequally and revealed the wonderful X-ray of this country — all of its goodness and badness — perfectly laid bare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As so many are suffering, I have made the decision in life to actively invest in joy. You have to actively invest in it like exercise. You have to make the intention and then you have to develop the discipline, because for so many of us, we don’t get joy, we don’t get to laugh. Instead, the narrative that we were taught was suffer, but suffer well. Suffer but suffer proud. Suffer, but suffer silently. Smile, even though you’re crying inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When [our then-2-year-old daughter] Nusayba was diagnosed with cancer, my wife and I could have easily gone to this mental quicksand of, “Why us? Why us? Why, God?” You’ll never receive an answer to that. That whisper eats away and destroys you. But instead, we said, “This is life. Life happens.” There’s good and there’s bad. Bad things happen to good people. Good things happen to bad people. It’s how we choose to confront it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/sleeping-dad-2015.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/sleeping-dad-2015.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/sleeping-dad-2015-800x797.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/sleeping-dad-2015-160x159.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wajahat Ali, a tired dad, in 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Wajahat Ali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I remember I used to sit there at night after my kids went to sleep during my daughter’s stage-four cancer, where we didn’t know if she’d survive. I imagined burying her. I imagined her dying. I imagined [calling her grandparents], saying she died, because I had to prepare myself as the father. But then I made the choice of imagining her alive and healthy, wearing her “Encanto” Isabella dress, full of life. I chose to invest in that story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though it feels like you’re on the edge of the cliff and the cliff is falling, you know, you never know, sometimes the page turns and brings with it a plot twist, and it leads to a better story. And [after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition], I should be dead. Literally, I should be dead. But here I am talking to you. Still alive. My daughter is still alive. So how can I not invest in hope?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But a lot of it was book learning. Let me be blunt, and some people might not like to hear this, but a lot of those kids are good, well-intentioned kids who haven’t lived those experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They read about poverty. They haven’t tasted poverty. They read about oppression. They’ve never been oppressed. They’re like cul-de-sac social justice warriors, right? Their heart is in the right place. Their mind is in the right place. I was like that, but I didn’t really taste it. My [immigrant] parents tasted it. But they protected me. So I was kind of in a suburban, protected shell living the American dream. A kid who was at UC Berkeley and was thinking about going to law school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then 9/11 happened, and overnight we became citizens and suspects. Overnight, we became terrorists. The American story had a remake, and tag, Muslims were it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903780\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903780\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"1480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978.jpg 980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/9780393867978-160x242.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wajahat Ali’s new memoir transforms a painful phrase into a hilarious exploration of Islamophobia and racism. \u003ccite>(Courtesy W.W. Norton and Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We were the villains. Not just Muslims, but those who look Muslim-y. All of a sudden the entire target was on our back. This country went mad after 9/11. This country went so crazy, we renamed french fries as freedom fries. This country went so nuts that they canceled Susan Sontag. They canceled the Dixie Chicks, who are like the whitest women on Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you think they were doing to Muslims? They were surveilling us. They were entrapping us. They went after our organizations. They went after our charities. What is the type of effect that has on Muslims? A chilling effect. Fear. There were hate crimes against Muslim women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was happening as I was a student at UC Berkeley. Overnight I became this accidental activist and this representative of this thing called “Islam” and “Muslims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I learned then that we would have to be something called the “moderate Muslim” in order to be accepted by America. That meant condemning violent acts done by people we’ve never met. Even if we condemned violent acts, and no matter how nice and shiny, we were still seen as suspects. That’s what happened, and we realized, “Oh crap, we’re not white. We’re actually, for a brief moment, living the Black experience in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On ‘actively investing’ in joy and humor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>I think humor is important for us to simply have catharsis, to have joy. For people of color to have joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two things that have surprised people most about the book is that people didn’t expect it to be so funny, and people didn’t expect it to end on such a hopeful note, and they needed that hope. The hope that I try to give in the book is an earned hope, not a Hollywood Hallmark hope, where they tie on a bow at the end to make you feel better, like cotton candy. It tastes good for the moment, but afterwards you feel really bad and you get angry, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Wajahat-Ali-author-photo-scaled-e1644023476196.jpg\" alt=\"profile headshot with bright pink background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Wajahat Ali has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The New York Times and appeared as a political commentator on CNN. \u003ccite>(Danin Dahlen/HuffPost)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earned hope is confronting the demons, acknowledging them. Walking through the [forest] of horrors and then coming out with the scars and the wounds, but still standing. The journey of horrors, which is the life of so many Americans who still haven’t tasted the American dream. They’ve lived the American nightmare. And this pandemic, which has flattened us but flattened us unequally and revealed the wonderful X-ray of this country — all of its goodness and badness — perfectly laid bare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As so many are suffering, I have made the decision in life to actively invest in joy. You have to actively invest in it like exercise. You have to make the intention and then you have to develop the discipline, because for so many of us, we don’t get joy, we don’t get to laugh. Instead, the narrative that we were taught was suffer, but suffer well. Suffer but suffer proud. Suffer, but suffer silently. Smile, even though you’re crying inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When [our then-2-year-old daughter] Nusayba was diagnosed with cancer, my wife and I could have easily gone to this mental quicksand of, “Why us? Why us? 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots\">Los Angeles riots were raging after the police beating of Rodney King\u003c/a>, and hooks was addressing a beleaguered crowd of the college’s student activists. She offered them advice that would stay with Chapman over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I don’t do social justice work with anyone who’s not in a movement with me for a lifetime. And that really reduces the number of people who I’m willing to interact with on that level,'” Chapman remembers hooks saying. “That gave me permission to not have to engage every person running their racism at me. 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Her foundational works on feminism, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.routledge.com/Aint-I-a-Woman-Black-Women-and-Feminism/hooks/p/book/9781138821514\">Ain’t I a Woman\u003c/a>,” critiqued white feminism and began farsighted conversations around intersectionality even before \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/29/982357959/what-does-intersectionality-mean\">the term was created by Kimberlé Crenshaw\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even her kindness to all, to feminism more broadly, she was really unapologetic in the prioritization of Black women,” says Chestnut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple people shared how hooks profoundly cared for young people and children, too. 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Nava, the grandson of Pancho Villa, moved to Russell City with his family in 1942, when he was 2 years old, and fondly remembers the strong sense of community and pride among residents, as well as the nightclub near his house where he would get ice cream during the day as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nava, now 82, remains in close contact with other former residents and their descendants through an annual picnic celebration at Kennedy Park in Hayward where families gather and reflect on the good times in Russell City. The annual picnic had been going on for over 20 years until 2018, when renovations began at the park. The park was scheduled to reopen in the spring of 2021 but was delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nava created a wall-size cardboard sign filled with photos submitted from former residents and a hand-drawn map of Russell City where descendants could write their names by the streets where they used to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Russell City is a good example of showing that people, no matter their race or creed, could get along,” said Nava. “Those people were down to earth. 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Nava and other former residents marked where they lived at an annual picnic that year. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aisha Knowles, 44, who was born and raised in Hayward and is a descendant of Russell City residents, remembers attending the annual picnic at Kennedy Park every year since she was a child and learning more about the history of the community. Her family owned an auto shop called Honest Abe and Sons, and her grandmother and great-uncle, Fannie Knowles and Bill Eastland, helped found the First Baptist Church of Russell City in 1943.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up hearing so many different stories and loved meeting other people from Russell City,” said Knowles. “I was pleased to see the commission’s work. It was one step and component that makes sure Russell City is never forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Frances Doyal, Winny Knowles and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, other Bay Area cities have been grappling with their own discriminatory pasts, and in recent months have shown a willingness to acknowledge and apologize for damage done. On Sept. 29, the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">é\u003c/span> City Council held a ceremony at the Circle of Palms Plaza to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890341/san-jose-to-apologize-for-the-1887-burning-of-the-citys-chinatown\">apologize to Chinese immigrants and their descendants\u003c/a> for deliberately setting fire to San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">é\u003c/span>’s Chinatown in 1887, destroying businesses and displacing over 1,000 people. Over the summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101886267/california-cities-apologize-for-historical-wrongs-against-chinese-community\">Antioch City Council apologized to the Chinese community\u003c/a> for burning down its Chinatown in 1876.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Artavia Berry, chair, Hayward Community Services Commission\"]‘We wanted the city to apologize, but we also want solutions.’[/pullquote]Hayward’s formal apology to Russell City residents and their descendants was spurred on by the actions of residents like Artavia Berry, chair of the Hayward Community Services Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berry, who helped draft Hayward’s apology, said the commission has been pushing the city to improve equity, add new training for the police department and talk about how governments and institutions can engage communities of color. Along with the formal apology is an 10-part plan to address the many concerns of Hayward’s Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many other communities have received reparations and apologies, but I haven’t seen many institutions apologize to Black people for anything,” said Berry. “We wanted the city to apologize, but we also want solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898075\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52748_003_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artavia Berry, chair of the Hayward Community Services Commission, near her home in Hayward on Dec. 2, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proposed solutions include financial resources being allocated for a Black homeowner business fund, supporting an annual Juneteenth citywide celebration in Hayward, providing culturally relevant educational tools for Black students and developing Black businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, the commission made a presentation to Hayward’s city council on potential restitution and how to incorporate their recommendations into the city’s strategic plan. Berry is optimistic that the city will work with her commission and add their proposals into the city budget by next June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898081\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52751_006_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"hand holds open a book with detail of historical black and white photos of Russell City\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52751_006_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52751_006_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52751_006_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52751_006_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52751_006_Hayward_RussellCity_12022021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artavia Berry, chair of the Hayward Community Services Commission, looks through the book ‘Images of America: Russell City.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berry said despite her anger after learning about how poorly Russell City residents were treated, she admires their resilience to be able to work together and build a community on their own. She hopes the work being done in Hayward can serve as a blueprint for other cities across the nation on how to heal old wounds and move forward in an equitable way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This process really shows that you don’t have to be an elected official to make change and influence policy,” said Berry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone on the commission are volunteers and residents of Hayward who care about the community. It doesn’t matter what your station is in life. If you’re willing to speak up, you can make change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When homes and businesses in Russell City were demolished, residents lost more than just their property. An entire community was uprooted as families were scattered across the Bay Area. Some who were able to resettle relatively close made a concerted effort to keep the bonds forged alive through ongoing gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People lived and worked together, and watched out for each other’s children that would play in the surrounding open fields,” said Sam Nava, a former Russell City resident. Nava, the grandson of Pancho Villa, moved to Russell City with his family in 1942, when he was 2 years old, and fondly remembers the strong sense of community and pride among residents, as well as the nightclub near his house where he would get ice cream during the day as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nava, now 82, remains in close contact with other former residents and their descendants through an annual picnic celebration at Kennedy Park in Hayward where families gather and reflect on the good times in Russell City. The annual picnic had been going on for over 20 years until 2018, when renovations began at the park. The park was scheduled to reopen in the spring of 2021 but was delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nava created a wall-size cardboard sign filled with photos submitted from former residents and a hand-drawn map of Russell City where descendants could write their names by the streets where they used to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Russell City is a good example of showing that people, no matter their race or creed, could get along,” said Nava. “Those people were down to earth. We all saw each other as equal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1930px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898068 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1930\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail.jpg 1930w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-800x708.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1020x903.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1536x1360.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/MapDetail-1920x1700.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1930px) 100vw, 1930px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of a hand-drawn map from former Russell City resident Sam Nava displaying the neighborhood layout he made around 1970. 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It was one step and component that makes sure Russell City is never forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/KnowlesPicnic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Frances Doyal, Winny Knowles and Aisha Knowles, former residents and descendants of families from Russell City, pose for a photo during the annual Russell City reunion picnic at Kennedy Park in Hayward on Sept. 3, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Aisha Knowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, other Bay Area cities have been grappling with their own discriminatory pasts, and in recent months have shown a willingness to acknowledge and apologize for damage done. On Sept. 29, the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">é\u003c/span> City Council held a ceremony at the Circle of Palms Plaza to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890341/san-jose-to-apologize-for-the-1887-burning-of-the-citys-chinatown\">apologize to Chinese immigrants and their descendants\u003c/a> for deliberately setting fire to San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">é\u003c/span>’s Chinatown in 1887, destroying businesses and displacing over 1,000 people. Over the summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101886267/california-cities-apologize-for-historical-wrongs-against-chinese-community\">Antioch City Council apologized to the Chinese community\u003c/a> for burning down its Chinatown in 1876.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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