text: I am not promoting division. If any of us brainstorm about how we identify (I am white, woman, middle-aged,  English-speaker and  Spanish-speaker, middle class, mother-sister-daughter,  Latina-Irish-English-Italian-Cuban-Spanish, Catholic-raised,  teacher, west-coast with mid-west and NY  roots, straight,  gardener, writer) we will find something we have in common.  I think unity comes from celebrating what we have in common and our differences. It does not come from oppressing differences.  Cuban-Americans, like Asian-Americans, like German-Americans, like Swedish-Americans, seem aware of their descent. Isn't it enough to say we are Americans without worrying about the fact that we have other identities, too? I mean, you identified me as being from the left, which means, I think, that you identify with the right. So you are a conservative American and I am a liberal American. These are real differences. We have in common American, and Oregon. Telling stories is inclusion, it is unity.