Posted on 11/08/2019 2:34:23 PM PST by 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.
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Good riddance!
Hasta Lavista
According to the census bureau 13% of whites are on welfare programs vs 36% of Latinos. According to amnesty international 80% of the children who show up at the southern border show signs of sexual abuse. Could take rake some of her friends & relatives with her.
I knew what you meant with ‘asta’, but just wanted to have you correct yourself. Learning is a life-long endeavor.
Idiot. kick him out!
¡Hasta luego caimán!
(see you later alligator!)
The “Palestine of the Caribbean”?????
Seriesly?
Stupidity on soooo many levels ....it would be better if she left. She hates us!
Good! ... and remember to take your anchor critters with you!
Did she really say she was “a Latino”? I haven’t heard a leftist woman say that in 25 years, although my church friends, from a dozen Spanish-speaking countries, say “Nosotros Latinos” without a thought. For a while, you could say “Latina,” but now, you have to say “Latinx” if you are Woke.
Maybe she would enjoy Laos, like the Latino she mentioned. Rich expats have a pretty easy time there, although native Laotians are subject to all kinds of dictatorial oppression, and migrants or refugees, such as Vietnamese or Cambodians, are the lowest of the low.
The author is a she. The feminazi use of an initial instead of the first name got you. ;)
He/she
What difference does it make?
Just another leftist POS.
Hasta la vista, mother fornicator.
They never do they just threaten to do so.
Not very seriously.
PR has been remarkably peaceful for hundreds of years.
It was not really fought over by the colonial powers in the 17th-18th centuries, and suffered no real revolts or revolutions.
Its quite astonishing really.
Compare with Cuba.
El bumpo
Indeed. I would much prefer to live on an American Island than some Banana Pepublic.
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