US Social Forum

Thank you for that most informative report on the USSFORUM 2007 that was held in Atlanta recently. Your intense comments were motivating and thought provoking. I commend you for your unique method.

I am sorry that your facilities and the water situation was not adequate. Perhaps learning from this, in good weather maybe the events could be better handled in the public parks as we often do when we have concerts and picnics.

By the way, the US$15 was supposed to be for the sandwiches they gave to the participants who registered for the forum. US$15 wasn't to exclude the the homeless individuals.

Because of undocumented, non-citizen latinos, there has been a conflict between Mexicans and African Americans because of job competition in the USA. Non-citizen Mexicans (Latinos) have come to America illegally and taken jobs, ruined our health care system and flooded our welfare offices.

And speaking of Africans, and the term, 'African-Latinos', there is no such terminology. Even if we Africans are speaking Spanish, and live in South America, we are NOT 'Latinos'. MEXICANS are the only 'Latinos'. Those are fighting words.

I'm an African American living in the USA. There are NO 'Spanish' Africans. WE are plain 'Africans'.
'Latino' is a Spanish LANGUAGE, and not the NAME to be added of our African people.

Please make a note of this. Thanks again for your comments.