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While you were working your 9-5 job, or heading to your classes, the Iranican All Volunteer Crew were making PSAs for your community (in addition to their 9-5 jobs and/or classes). So what do y’all do to thank them?
Cyrus writes:
“I am not sold on this Iranian-American thing. Just as I am not a fan of any sort of hyphenated Americanism.
Perhaps the next movie made should succinctly explain why Iranians need to become a minority, while many other Olive skin ethnic groups living in this country dating back to the late 1800’s, like Greeks, Armenians, all Balkan cultures, Turks and even Arabs never tried for that status? While some greedy Iranians may think that being minority will facilitate their ability to tap into minority entitlement programs or allow them to sue every redneck who dares to make derogatory remark against their beloved country, but there is a huge downside price to pay in branding ourselves a non-white minority that will haunt our children in this country forever.”
Does Cyrus have a point? Or is he just being mean? In this week’s show, we’ll talk about all the controversies around the Census, and try to make sense of them all. Tune in!
And don’t forget to watch all our awesome PSAs:
Our Iranian-American Community PSA:
Mr. Farshforoosh:
Dottore:
And last but not least, the Original Maz PSA:
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Hello to all of my friends at iranican.
Sale no MObarak
omidvaram sal khobi dashthe bashin.
I encourage all Iranian-American to unite together to gain a minority status in the USA.
baro bashehay iranican ham mesl hamishe pishtaz faaliyat hay irani hastin onja. Che az barnameh gorh hay khoni gerfteh ta bazikon hay tim hay varzeshi. harja irani ha bodan, shoma ha ham bodin
برو بچههای ایرنیکن هم مثل همیشه پیشتاز فعالیتهای ایرانی هستین اونجا. چه از برنامه گروههای خونی گرفته تا بازیکنهای تیم های ورزشی. هرجا ایرانیها بودن، شماها هم بودین
MOvafgh bashin
Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races.
Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.”
How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be?
Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”.
It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops.
Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”.
Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society.
If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself.
I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed.