Posted on 12/26/2008 11:21:11 AM PST by stan_sipple
Carlos thought he’d be long gone by now. The young, college-educated New Yorker has been an illegal immigrant most his life. By last winter, a future with few options beyond washing dishes or working a factory assembly line had become too much for the gifted 24-year old to bear. Returning to his native Guatemala, he says, was not an option: “I have nothing there. I cannot go and adapt to that culture.”
Staying also gave him the chance to be part of the presidential election, which he considers the most important event of his life. “If I was in Australia right now,” he says, “I’d feel like I’d left in the middle of the battle.”
For Carlos, that battle – the election – was personal. Some of his relatives, like many other Latinos he knows, did not want to vote for a black man. A natural community organiser, Carlos worked with dozens of other young illegal immigrants, hatching a plan to shift support in the Latino community towards Obama.
“I wasn’t able to vote in this election,” Carlos says. “But I know for sure that 27 of my relatives went to vote, and that made it bigger than any vote I could have cast on my own.”
Obama’s election has given Carlos hope for a multi-cultural nation that has a place for immigrants like him.
“Suddenly I am the norm,” Carlos says. “I’m no longer the brown person living in the white country. Now the world knows this is a brown country.”
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ESAD, you illegal usurper of our Republic.
College educated? You are so stupid and self centered you can’t see that our LAWS are what enabled this Country to be so desirable to you in the first place.
You’ve cut of your nose, to spite your face, and that of your family, too. In the not too distant future, you’ll be decrying the exact same problems that we are now, and maybe then, you’ll realize just where your stupidity led you.
Ass hat!
“Now the world knows this is a brown country.”
And he’s not talking UPS Brown either.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe late to the boys room brown , thanks invader
they will overcome reluctance to vote for Obama because that furthers their goal of a completely splintered society
Funny, I never thought of Obambi as a black man.
If you will look at the people in his administration; please note that none of them really look black.
EXCELLENTLY well said.
“I’m no longer the brown person living in the white country. Now the world knows this is a brown country.”
I’m sure that moronic statements like this are what make him so “gifted”.
What he really means is a balkanized nation. Take it from a south american immigrant with roots in the balkans, multicuturalism does not work. It ventually leads to groups demanding independence and autonomy from the main culture and that leads to civil wars and instability.
What? Are we supposed to believe this crap?
I have no tears for you. If you were really smart you would have corrected things from the beginning. Now you have no country to live in.
Then I realized it is a foreign publication.
LOL It’s sad, isn’t it.
Thank you.
Carlos doesn’t want multi-culturalism so much as he wants multi-nationalism within the confines of the United States.
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Sorry, but the words "illegal" and "immigrant" can't go together in LeftTalk. The PC phrase is "umdocumented worker."
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