My 92-yr-old mother-in-law lives with us. She's a wonderful woman, but she listens to right-wing talk shows all the time, and than she talks about the damn things. "The browning of America" seems to be one of the favorite phrases of the talk show hosts. To me, it's very thinly, obscenely veiled racism. It's always spoken of as a threat, that this "browning" is a terrible thing that is destroying our American Culture and that it's awful that the government hasn't done something to stop it.

So, when I hear the term "the browning of America," my automatic response is anger at the racism that is still so pervasive in our land.

-Joe-