Goodbye, DU! You've won!

[yuiyoshida]

99. I had left DU .. not long ago but I am back...

My girlfriend told me I need to fight for what I believe in, despite people coming down on you. In my case, I had gotten a few racist remarks sent to me in private. I either erased them or reported them, and yes there are some people who troll DU, looking to make problems. I Never posted at Discussionist, but my name came up some where there and I read the nasty posts they wanted me to see, how I was a fake, how what I said didn't matter cause I was a "Chink"..

But I came back. This Country is too important to me. My ancestors came from Japan to Work in the Sugarcane fields in Hawaii, met and married native Hawaiians,... had the shit scared out of them during Pearl Harbor and stayed close to home not wanting to attract attention that we had Japanese genes..but our family was True Hawaiian too... maybe that's why my folks left, Hawaii, they were fed up with things that went on there, with family and community and moved to San Francisco. They live in Vegas now...I still live the Bay Area in the City... pretty much alone.. But I have Juju now in San Diego as my best friend, and we are talking constantly like a sixteen year old who got her first telephone... spending hours with each other, even when she is at work..

Point is, DU is a place to come talk about politics and get involved. Take your time.. think about what you want to do.

Not many people know, that to say "Sayonara" is to say good bye in a semi permanent way. Its taken that many times people won't come back. To say good bye, knowing you will be back is to say "Mata ne" or "Jyaa mata" which both kind of mean, see you later, in Japanese culture, Just as Aloha has several meanings.. So I will simply say " Jyaa.. mata" . Its simply means.."well...see you later".