As a Latino, I no longer feel safe in Trump's America. So I'm leaving it. (BARF ALERT)

NBC "News" ^ | 11/2/19 | S. Ramirez de Arellano

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the Palestine of the Caribbean — an island that has been passed around for centuries by two colonizing powers. I grew up with a father who believed that the United States was the Garden of Earthly Delights. In his telling, America was a magical Oz where everyone was equal and anything possible. He painted it not just as a country, but as an ideal. I never fully believed it, but that was his mantra.

He gave me two choices when I turned 16 and was deciding where to go to university: Either I got on the plane to America under my own steam, or he would physically put me on the plane. I was part of a generation that was trained to go and prosper in El Norte, always with a belittling of what we had left behind. The United States was better, it did things better and it could never, ever resemble one of our Latin American despots. God forbid it was said to be corrupt.

Well, it turns out that America is not Oz. And, now with Donald Trump, America has its own Leonidas Trujillo, the vain, rouge-wearing bloody dictator of the Dominican Republic. And it also turns out that the yellow brick road my father sent me down led me to an Emerald City desperate to build a wall of rejection and steel against people who speak my mother tongue.

I live in New York City now and I love this place for what it is — raw, abrupt, honest and diverse. But I no longer trust that America is another name for opportunity, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote.

[BatGuano]

ADIOS MF! Who feels safe with all you Latinos around?

[Stravinsky]

Latinos aren’t safe in America yet latinos are doing everything they can to get INTO America. Sorry, lady, it doesn’t add up.

[Alberta's Child]

What a dope. He/she/it feels unsafe in the U.S. ever since Donald Trump and his band of Deplorables carried out their Noche de Cristal campaign where they ransacked and destroyed Hispanic-owned businesses all over the U.S.

/sarcasm off/

[GraceG]

We should just Cut Puerto Rico loose.

They can be their own country.

[txrefugee]

Adios...and take a few million belly-achers with you. Unfortunately, that still won’t be enough, and you won’t be missed.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Anecdotal. President Trump is doing better with Hispanics than any other incumbent GOP President, even El Presidente Jorge Bush.

[a fool in paradise]

The palestine of the carribean?

Is he one of those puerto rican terrorists?

[Buttons12]

Sounds like a simple case of daddy issues to me.
Arrested development in the rebellious stage.

[JPJones]

“And it also turns out that the yellow brick road my father sent me down led me to an Emerald City desperate to build a wall of rejection and steel against people who speak my mother tongue. “

Yeah...so?

[a fool in paradise]

Norte Mexico is pretty safe according to the media

[Not A Snowbird]

Wow. Drama queen.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I am sorry but she looks like a bad stereotype of the Code Pink, LGBTQPDWTF, flaming, dyed-in-the-wool abortion loving commie rat. I know you can’t tell a book by its cover, but boy she looks the part of an Antifa supporter.

[adorno]

What’s asta?

[Brown Deer]

ABC's View Girls Skip Down the Yellow Brick Road with Obama

Friday's The View had a surreal, Oz-like quality, as the ladies of the panel demonstrated how the rules change when you're interviewing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

What word but “surreal” when a kneejerk liberal bends over backwards to defend a racial slur?

What word but “surreal” when a “journalist” compares the hate-spewing Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the Pope?

What word but “surreal” when a “journalist” declares she wants to work on the candidate's campaign?

With Obama still striving to separate himself from the outrageous statements of his longtime pastor, the ladies on The View had a golden opportunity to reveal the candidate's inner values and character. They might have asked why Obama remained for nearly 20 years in a church that preaches hate, resentment and victimhood. They might have asked how voters can be sure Obama has not been infected by Wright's anti-Americanism.

Instead, panelists Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd seemed more concerned about protecting Obama from legitimate inquiry than in getting to the bottom of the questions about his patriotism and judgment.

The weirdness began even before Obama made his dramatic entrance. When Elisabeth Hasselbeck quoted Rev. Wright's most recently exposed outrage, an ethnic slur against Italians, Joy Behar tried to make a joke out of it.

Hasselbeck: “[Wright] said the Italians looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.”

Behar: “He's talking about the Romans. The Roman nose is celebrated in art and history, so I don't think that's insulting.”

For her part, Goldberg said the Obama-Wright controversy, “takes you back to Kennedy because everyone was concerned about Kennedy's religion and his spiritual leader, who was the Pope.”

Even Barbara Walters couldn't swallow that one: “I'm not sure it's the same….We're not talking about Barack Obama's religion…We're talking about a mentor, and a mentor who says very bigoted, racially discriminatory statements.”

Once Obama came on stage, only Elisabeth Hasselbeck mounted any resistance to the candidate's charms, pressing the candidate on whether he knew about, and therefore implicitly endorsed, Wright's hatred and racism.

Hasselbeck: “You never heard about these sermons?”

Obama: “Well, the particular ones that you mentioned, I hadn't heard….”

Hasselbeck: “Some of these are sold on DVD at the church.”

Obama: “But I don't purchase all the DVDs and I didn't read all the church bulletins. It's not to excuse it. Here is my point. The vision I talked about at the Democratic National Convention, that's who I am.”

As the Wizard of Oz said to Dorothy, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

One panelist who didn't seem at all interested in peeking behind Obama's curtain was Sherri Shepherd: “I just have to say, I so appreciate you sharing your heart in the speech you just gave because I had my vote for Hillary and as soon as I heard that speech, I changed it. And I want to leave The View to campaign for you. Well, not leave The View, but you know, on the weekends.”

Video: Obama Defends Wright on Friday's "View"

[Cobra64]

Good. Take your scuzzy tacos and beans that look like diarrhea with you.

[5th MEB]

WELL——BYE!

[SaxxonWoods]

Your being Latino is irrelevant to me, but you sound like nut so I’m glad you are leaving.

[Cyclops08]

Soooo, he hates America...but instead of going back to PR, he chose to stay in the rat infested shithole of NYC?!!!

[central_va]

Hasta la vista, baby,

[Phil DiBasquette]

Once you stopped carrying your weight with
Vieques it should have been adios.

You’re ingrates who politicize your own
incompetencies, find common cause
with the Cubas Venezuelas and Nicaraguas