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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Be gone you scourge.
I wish these Leftie interlopers would at least get the narrative right. *smh*
There was no copy of West Side Story available before they made their choice ?
99% of the immigrants who come to America hate America.
New York city is honest? This pendejo needs to be deported to Venezuela just on stupidity grounds.
Bye...what S#!THOLE COUNTRY will you move to? North Korea, Cuba or Venezuela?
What a pathetic moron. Nothing happened to her. This dumb witch feels maligned even though no one has attacked her verbally or physically. This woman is insane, a rabid left wing idiot.
Good Riddance!
Take many others with you!
Me too, I was hoping fugly Cochina Ana was leaving! Dang!
ok bye.
Good that you feel terrified or unsafe... Only Americans are supposed to be protected here... Anyone who characterizes themselves as being something other than “American” should absolutely be unsafe and terrified... Who cares... If you cannot find it in your heart to even consider yourself an American go find the nearest event horizon and jump...
good. don’t let the door hit you where the good lord split you. adios amigo
I don’t think it’s safe living in urban areas.
I don’t know where this author lives but I can only assume it’s an urban area that has been run by democrats for 60 plus years...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! COME BACK...,.I CAN’T STAND ALL THIS GUILT I’M FEELING...
just kidding...
If he’s Puerto Rican, he’s legal. But then again, they bark about being independent until they realize the checks from Uncle Sugar will stop, then they change their tune.
She is living in a fantasy world, but then anyone who lives amongst nothing but liberal idiots cannot be trusted to understand reality.
Being assaulted for speaking Spanish? Nonsense.
She's a commie, Jim.
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