On the Sacramento Rap Scene

Be Safe, Sacramento.

I hope to post my travelogue of Sacramento one of these days. Not only was it a trip, it was also a meeting of family. But seeing these headlines, I have to respond.

The Los Angeles Times: "At Least Five People Stabbed at Neo-Nazi Event Outside Capitol in Sacramento."

Update: CNN: "At Least 7 Injured--Some Stabbed--At California Rally, Authorities Say."

We went to the Capitol on a Sunday afternoon. The building itself was closed but we walked around the garden. Everything was lovely. Not today, apparently.

27 June update: KCRA [NBC Sacramento affiliate]: "10 People Injured During Protest Clash at State Capitol (Officials: 2 People Suffered Life-Threatening Stab Wounds)

Nothing so far at the SPLC Hatewatch blog. The SPLC Twitter has a few posts. But this SPLC article from 2013 describes a conflict between white nationalists and anti-fascists that has flared up sporadically for decades.

Sacramento reporter Frances Wang was covering the protest and got in the thick of it:

That is correct. Learned this once things calmed down. https://t.co/pfGMctFvEn

— Frances Wang (@ABC10Frances) June 27, 2016

Hey @MatthewHeimbach would you be interested in speaking with me tomorrow? Feel free to tweet/email me! Fwang@abc10.com

— Frances Wang (@ABC10Frances) June 27, 2016

VIDEO: All of this chaos at the Capitol captured in just 1 hour on 1 phone. @ABC10 pic.twitter.com/upgnZPYuJf

— Frances Wang (@ABC10Frances) June 27, 2016

Blumenthal says this. Who attacked who first is the question.

Here's neo-Nazi Matthew Heimbach, whose group was behind the Sacramento stabbings, with the late Andrew Breitbart pic.twitter.com/4mf0OACZHs

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) June 27, 2016

CBS News: "Police Recordings Show Response to Violent Calif. 'Nazi Mega-Rally.'"

The Drought in California

When I went to Sacramento last August, California was in its drought. I remember brilliantly sunny skies, but it was never blazingly hot, as we were told to expect. And now there is even less water. (I still plan to write about my trip. It's too significant not to.)

Residents Conserving Water During Drought.

There's No Place Like Home

I went to the mainland for the first time last week Thursday and stayed till this Tuesday. Specifically, I went with my father, sister, and a family friend to attend my uncle's funeral. He died earlier this month and, upon getting the news, my family made plans to travel to Sacramento, where my uncle had lived for many years.

This trip was not only my first trip to the mainland, but it was the first off-island one I've taken in the twenty-first century and the first since the TSA was established.

Much more soon.