When I looked at you a little while ago at the Jackie Robinson YMCA, decked out in your finery, you were about the most beautiful sight I’ve ever laid my eyes on, just a-hugging and -pecking each other on the cheek and smiling and talking with your bodies and your hands, your love for each other aglow.
And you personified a little of everybody — gays, lesbians, bi, non-hearing, blind, skin tones from ivory to ebony, ethnicities aplenty: Mexican American; Latino; Chicano; Chicana; Filipino; Vietnamese American; Bi-racial; Native American; Afghanian American; African American; African; European American; Honduran American…
Diversity in full flower. And, considering that we were there celebrating the 45th Anniversary of CBB, your beloved Community Based Block, we were honoring the very concept of diversity, as everything you experienced getting a Masters in Counseling was based on “Transforming Lives and Communities” through learning how to counsel everybody. There could be no stronger commitment to matters of diversity.
That’s what I love about you the most, that you are primed to give “an ear” to underserved people, having learned how to do that by conducting your classes and counseling in the community rather than on Montezuma Mesa.
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