Goodbye to my American dream: As a black, I'm tired of loving a country that can't love me back

Salon ^ | July 16, 2013 | Tiffanie Drayton

[llevrok]

They can build their own Utopia there

Been tried. Liberia.

[Baynative]

She is a powerful writer and I felt the passion in her conflicted sociology. I understood her tightrope walk straddling cultures with no net ...then came Trayvon and she lost me as she ran to join the Al Sharpton network.

[piytar]

Good luck there. Fool.

[Dawgreg]

Exactly!

[KarlInOhio]

I never watched my childhood neighborhood become whitened by helicopter lights in search of criminals or hipsters in search of apartments.

So remember kids, if you leave a neighborhood because it is too black you are a racist and if you move in because the land is cheap and urban living is "cool" you are also a racist. I guess the neighborhoods which really suck are the ones that suffered from white flight and later gentrification.

[Enterprise]

Hey Tiffany, can you convince Jessee Jackass and Al Sharpton to go with you? Please?

[RightGeek]

[rottndog]

For a college grad, she sure is stupid...TM case had NOTHING to do with race, except for all the race baiting by the usual race hustlers.

Good Riddance.

[MacMattico]

So her nanny single mother had the cash to take her all over the country (including Hawaii) in search of the best schools and she was able to go to a private college?

Boo-Hoo. I wish I had been so discriminated against. Most of this story is made up.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Perhaps in the mean time she could grow up a little.

[Past Your Eyes]

[GBA]

“Black people don’t really know how to swim,” my co-worker once told me when I worked as a swim instructor at my neighborhood’s pool. “What about me?” I asked. “Oh, you aren’t black. You’re from Trinidad,” she said.

I'm sorry to hear of your experiences growing up in the places you did. The part I quoted contains a clue to understanding, as does your reaction to the reports of the Zimmerman verdict and trial.

We fixed slavery and the racial inequality of our past much like Germany was fixed after WWI such that the solution led to WWII.

Check the philosophical point of view that formed the basis for the "solutions" in each and you'll see the similarities and will then have a big picture understanding that explains much of your past, our now and predicts our likely near future.

[Moonman62]

I was already back in Trinidad and Tobago when the Trayvon Martin verdict came down last week. I wasn’t surprised, but I was speechless. My hope is that it will force Americans to reexamine their “post-racial” beliefs. A friend of mine posted on my Facebook page, “You made the right choice.” I think I did, too.

Now if we can only get the rest of the Trayvonistas to follow.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

The melodrama, ignorance, tribalism, and racism of the black community over the Trayvon matter is the most pathetic thing I may have seen in my life. So sick of it.

Leave already, chick, and spare us why because we don’t care.

[lonster]

gets a college education on america’s dime and runs off whining because she hates it here. what a hypocrite.

[Lancey Howard]

Good riddance. I recommend you try the Sudan.
Whatever..
Don’t come back.

[Bullish]

I wish she’d just swim to Cuba.

[Albion Wilde]

Buh bye!

[A_Former_Democrat]

Then try, try again