The
Harvey Milk Memorial Oriental Kebab Tortilla Wrap
Ingredients:
1
pound chicken
breast tenders
¼ cup soy sauce
¼ cup soy sauce
6
scallions, white and green parts, thinly sliced
3
tablespoons vegetable oil
4
garlic cloves, minced
1
tsp
grated ginger
6
ounces white mushrooms, trimmed and sliced
¼
cup orange marmalade
3
TBS Balsamic vinegar
¼
teaspoon red pepper flakes
2
cups shredded Napa cabbage
½
cup left
over peas (without sauce)
1
small can of bamboo shoots, cut into slivers
1
pkg tortillas (even get gluten free if you like)
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Directions:
Cut
the chicken tenderloins into bite sized chunks. Please be sure to cut
out the small white strip! This piece of gristle will only annoy and
get caught in the teeth. This is a small task that perhaps no one
will notice. However it is just one of the parts of serving that
satisfies a slave. You know you have taken this effort to please.
While
slave is at it, please, when you are in the kitchen preparing a meal
for someone — be happy! Sing to yourself if necessary. This WILL
make the food taste better. No one will ever convince slave any
different!
Mix the soy sauce, the whites of the green onions, minced garlic, and ginger with the oil. Pour this into zipper bags along with chicken and let marinade. It can sit in refrigerator for at least 4 hours or best overnight.
Note
this is ONE time you do not have to marinade the chicken in
buttermilk first!
Make
the sauce:
In
a medium bowl combine the marmalade with the red pepper flakes. Add
the vinegar a Tablespoon at a time stirring it in. You want the
consistency of a good dipping sauce. Cover and this can also sit in
the refrigerator overnight if you wish.
Clean
and slice the mushrooms and shred the cabbage.
Mix
the peas and cut up bamboo shoots into the cabbage.
Drain
the chicken pieces on paper towels and heat oil in a skillet over
medium high heat. Fry, stirring, until not only fully cooked but
also crispy! You want a slight crunch.
To
assemble:
In
a clean non-stick pan on medium heat, heat each tortilla until warm.
They don't have to cook.
Place a few sliced mushrooms on the tortillas, spoon the cabbage mixture on them. Then add some pieces of crispy soy chicken and top with bits of green onion. Then spoon a bit of the marmalade sauce on top.
Fold up the bottom to hold the food in. then fold over the arms to hold it.
This
makes a unique street food. It balances cooking traditions from
around the world to honor one of our great leaders. Harvey Milk
reached out to all of the ethnic groups and genuinely cared for their
interests even when it was not politically expedient.
Hope
you enjoy this interesting take on different cultures!
Let
slave tell you about this leader named Harvey Milk. You do know that
he did more than just act as target practice for a deranged man (who
was NO relation to me by the way!)
Since
the award winning movie “MILK” tells so much about the story of
Harvey Milk, slave thought it best to focus on just one point. It
was a fight that directly effected every LGBT citizen in the country.
While portrayed in the film, its importance was a bit watered down in
the interests of showing other parts of his life.
Anita Bryant
In
the eight years since the Stonewall Riots gay
activists had managed to secure several city
and county ordinances across
the country. These
granted a small level of protection for the LGBT
citizens.
Then
in 1977, a political coalition “Save Our Children, Inc.”
formed in Miami, Florida, to overturn one of these county ordinances.
The law simply banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment,
and public accommodation based on sexual orientation. This coalition
was publicly headed by celebrity singer Anita Bryant. She
claimed the ordinance discriminated against her right to teach her
children biblical morality. It was a well-organized & financed
campaign that was the beginnings of “The Moral Majority”.
Evangelical ministries from all over the country began to pour money
into this effort to flex their growing political might.
At
one rally Bryant held up a pamphlet about homosexuality she claimed
was being distributed at area high schools (a statement she later had
to admit was a lie), and said Dade County homosexuals "are
trying to recruit our children into homosexuality"
The
statement made headlines, the retraction never did.
Two
months before the referendum vote, Bob Green, speaking for Bryant,
vowed to lead her cause in all cities in the United States that
protected sexual orientation from discrimination, saying that gay
activists waged a "disguised attack on God", and
Bryant would "lead such a crusade to stop it as this country has
not seen before".
The
ensuing political fight was a steam roller over the basically
unprepared gay supporters.
San
Francisco Sheriff Richard Hongisto had campaigned with Miami's law
enforcement community to save the protections. When he returned home
he said that Save Our Children made an issue of the very existence
of San Francisco: referring to the city as "a cesspool of
perversion gone rampant". Bob Green expressed doubt that saving
San Francisco was possible. Reverend Jerry Falwell spoke at a
rally as the vote neared, telling the audience, "I want to tell
you we are dealing with a vile and vicious and vulgar gang. They'd
kill you as quick as look at you."
In
the weeks after the Dade County vote, Fort Lauderdale, Gainesville,
and Palm Beach, Florida and Austin, Texas, all rejected
ordinances to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation.
When
the repeal went to a vote, it attracted the largest response
of any special election in Dade County's history, passing by 70%.
The
goal of “Save Our Children” was to crush the gay rights
movement and purge this filth from our country. The defeat of the
ordinance encouraged groups in other cities to overturn similar laws.
“Save Our Children” with Anita Bryant in the lead became a
juggernaut repealing gay rights ordinances in Saint Paul, Minnesota,
Wichita, Kansas and Eugene, Oregon. She was on her own “March to
the Sea” this time the tsunami was headed right at California. All
sights were set on the BIG PRIZE: “The Briggs Initiative”
in California.
In
1978 “Proposition 6” would have made the firing of
openly gay public school employees mandatory!
Under it's proposed
provisions even voting against
the initiative was cause for such dismissal.
California
state senator John Briggs had been in Dade County with the Bryant
group when the votes were being counted. The huge voter turnout
impressed him. He had his sights on running for Governor of
California. Since California had no such law to overturn, he
proposed a law to forbid employing openly gay public school teachers
and other workers. The bill also allowed the dismissal of any public
school employee for supporting gay rights including voting against
Proposition 6, regardless of their sexual orientation.
Briggs
named his organization California Defend Our Children (CDOC) to avoid
legal problems with a Connecticut charity (who
had to sue Bryant's group from using their name).
Still the tactics were the same.
What
was different was a young newly elected city supervisor named Harvey
Milk!
He
forged a coalition of activists and mobilized them under the slogan
"Come out! Come out! Wherever you are!" to defeat the
initiative. In what became the No On 6 campaign, gay men and
lesbians went door to door in their cities and towns across the state
to talk about the harm the initiative would cause.
At
his urging, gay men and lesbians came out to their families and their
neighbors and their co-workers.
Today
it might be hard to understand the bravery it took for people to
“come out”. It was still very much of a heart wrenching decision
that tore families apart. If this law passed it would force being
fired. The chance of getting another job was historically slim.
Harvey knew this and with his patience and guidance led his people
through one of the toughest choices of their lives.
The
efforts of Harvey Milk can not be exaggerated. This man was ready to
stand face to face anywhere and in front of any crowd to debate
Briggs. He, more than any other one person should be credited with
stopping the tidal wave from “The Moral Majority!”
He
spoke in their churches and community centers, sent letters to their
local editors, and otherwise revealed to the general population that
gay people really were "everywhere". This
included people they already knew and cared about. In the beginning
of September, the ballot measure was overwhelming
ahead in public-opinion
polls, with about 61%
of voters supporting
the discriminating
law while
31% opposed it.
slave
does not want to diminish in any way the hard work of thousands who
fought this discrimination from becoming law. While
no one man could have led the battle alone, it took a man of his
leadership and determination to galvanize the opposition.
Most
political pundits said it was a “fools errand”. Huge
amounts of money and powerful forces were poised to simply wash the
LGBT's into the Pacific Ocean.
Harvey
Milk proved them wrong!
On
election night, November
7, 1978, the initiative was soundly defeated! It even lost in
Briggs’ own Orange County, a conservative stronghold.
Not
three weeks latter, on November 27th, Milk was gunned down at his
office in San Francisco’s City hall.
In this month of Pride let us not forget the brave leaders of every gender, who fought for us and many who gave their all.
We march in their footsteps and we are PROUD!
This slave is so happy to be serving Master Indy.
socialslave
To
satisfy and restore.
To
nourish, support and maintain.
To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
…..I
cook!
Please
buy slave's cookbook:
The
Little Black Book of Indiscreet Recipes by Dan White
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