americanalling the hellenic progressive association, the most active organization in the country that represents interests of the greek-american community. it was formed in the south in response to klan activity directed at greek americans in the 1920's and 1930's. that convergence of interests is very directly bearing on that. all of these communities we are speaking about today have that convergence of interest. there are two important responses we need to have when these incidents of hate speech, anti-religious, racial incidents, acts of violence occur. one is to show an immediate sense of solidarity and responding to it -- in responding to it, the other is to take practical steps to respond to these attacks. the could go back to solidarity element, often our concept of solidarity is reactive. occursr words, something and then we assemble a kind of unified coalition response to that to condemn it. that is an important thing to do. ist that seeks to overcome human nature. when an incident occurs, the reflexive human response is to think, am i part of the group that was attacked or n