COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

A Young woman is injured at the Nazi Rally in Virginia Honest Thoughts About Charlottesville from a Christian Latina Artist's Point of View If you come to this blog on a regular basis, you probably know a little bit about me. You know that I am a composer, that I love music, that I dabble in indie filmmaking, and that I am a writer. I am also many other things - Parent, Decent Cook, Percussionist, Christian, and Latina (Cuban/Dominican). In general I keep the blog about music, more from time constraints than from any other reason. I would love to write a hundred blogs a month for my readers, but it's just not possible. But I could not keep silent about Charlottesville.  For those that don't know, last weekend Nazi protestors went to Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a Confederate statue. Counter protesters (among those a faction from the Antifa - AntiFascist) movement were also there. The Nazis brought assault rifles. The Antifas brought clu...

Today you have a choice. You can be bombarded by anger on Facebook and social media or you can choose to live your life without hate speech . How can you do this? We all have them on our Facebook, Twitter , and social media feeds. Friends, groups, and politicians posting angry memes and hate speech each day. But you don't have to listen to this anymore. All you have to do is UNFOLLOW. We don't want to lose our friends over differences. Then we'd just be lemmings, or clones. And who wants to be a lemming? Not me. But we can choose to UnfollowHate speech today. So next time a friend or politician or group posts up something that you know is hateful and untrue, go to their page and UNfollow them. This way you can save your friendship and stop the abuse. Because you have better things to do with your time than be a part of the hate. #UnFollowHate @dalatindiva http://sabrinapenayoung.blogspot.com/