Yesterday gave me pause. I was running a San Francisco South Asian Radical History Walking Tour yesterday, with a group of thirty-ish Brown/Desi/Muslim/SSWANA college students. We start with a land acknowledgement, then read from an 1850s SF newspaper editorial that frames South Asians and Muslims as part of the diversity of the city. Text like that, I say, is literal proof that we have been here, and this is our city too. (1/6)