Commentary

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<p>A number of years ago when a local radio station started playing Christmas music during this season, I received an e-mail asking me to call the station to complain. I told the sender that I rather enjoyed the festive music and suggested he turned the dial if he didn’t like it. I wonder how he’s doing…..but I digress.</p>

Commentary:
By Jimmy Franco Sr.

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<p>Every year, I volunteer to serve the Thanksgiving&nbsp;meal at a homeless shelter. And every&nbsp;year, I recognize that providing a Thanksgiving&nbsp;feast can’t replace long-term solutions to&nbsp;homelessness.</p>
<p>Every year, I see too many of the same faces&nbsp;— families and individuals still on waiting lists&nbsp;for subsidized housing.</p>

Commentary:
By Nasser Kazeminy
Chairman of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations

With our personal calendars filled with holidays that range from religious observances to children’s birthdays there is only one day of the year that we can all sit down together as one large, diverse family of Americans and celebrate who we are, where we came from and why this remains an extraordinary country of opportunity. Welcome Thanksgiving.