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As Chicanas who are often called angry by those who mean it as an insult, we would like to remind Molina not to underestimate the positive and powerful force for change that anger has been in her life and the lives of women of color around the world. Look at Rosa Parks and Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchu. It is this anger that has given us the strength and motivation to resist and overcome racism and sexism.

As for Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s accusation of “government by tantrum,” Molina should respond in the words of the late African-American feminist author Audre Lorde: “My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.”

EVANGELINE ORDAZ

LATINO UNITY FORUM

ADELA CARRASCO

NATIONAL LATINA ALLIANCE