Posted on 09/14/2024 10:51:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When my family moved back to the United States from East Africa in the mid-1980s, one might have thought it was a peak time of compassion for people suffering in faraway places. A glittering group of music superstars had recorded “We Are the World,” a smash hit charity single to raise money and awareness for the victims of a brutal famine that had gripped my mother’s home country, Ethiopia.
But when I told my new grade school classmates of my origins, I was met with cruel taunts. I was awfully fat for an Ethiopian, one said with a snigger. Must be nice to be able to have access to so much food, another joked. At the time, this was puzzling and upsetting — I had moved from Kenya, not Ethiopia, to my father’s home state, Minnesota. But the facts didn’t matter. These unkind remarks did the job the bullies hoped they would: They made me feel like an alien, an unwelcome stranger.
We live in even crueler times now, with humanitarian catastrophes unfolding on several continents, but the response of the wealthy world has been to demand tighter borders and higher fences. There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan. And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday, a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.
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Not only are they Not acceptable Invaders they’re also unacceptable Parasites.As an American citizen I want the gone.
Behind a pay wall ... any other way to view this?
Looks like the fast-food joint job didn’t work out for him (Lydia).
How can you tell you are over the target? Maybe some of these Haitians can date those Cat Ladies?
Oh, F-off. If you identify with animals from Haiti you deserve everything you get. If you want to make the point that not all are animals, have the courage to say that.
But, YOU demand that no one speak on the issue. Typical commie trash, censor what you cannot defend.
If she goes back to Africa she’ll find herself hangin’ from a cable at the end of a crane or doing a faceplant off the top of a building.
Thank you for reminding the fainting couch pearl clutchers of this.
Lydia move there ,you should help
If the New York Slimes says it it must be true! Every community should have 20,000 Haitian immigrants
I wonder what the impact on property values will be in Springfield ohio?
Yeah...kill a babe at 8-9 months gestation (alive).....but do not touch the cat ladies cats....
Racist NYT readers think Ethiopians and Haitians are the same. Got it.
So, Trump is the high school bully? Too bad......
51 cats say otherwise.
Bless her little heart.
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No, I’m not a Southern grandma and don’t call me Shirley
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Yikes!
Let’s hope.
The fascist NYT is dragging out one of its black slaves to prove that Trump is a cad.
Gak!
The truth is always offensive to leftists.
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