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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GTFO!
G’bye now!!
She came to America but forgot to get educated and to learn how to think rationally.
Well, bye.
Immigrants usually bring a posse of people with them. Can she leave with said posse?
Powers Boothe
Well, buh-bye.
De Arellano mucho complaino, si?
These morons can’t validate their own arugment so it’s easier to say “I’m leaving.” How about debating and learning how wrong you are?
Yeah, canaDUH would be awesome for some fake latino/a. Via con leche assclown.
The author is doing a horrible job of passing the word out to all those trying to get in.
Well try Mexico if you want to feel “safer”
Hasta la vista, baby!
Good riddance asshole.
Could you take a dozen friends with you when you leave? Gracias!
hasta luego.
5.56mm
This man’s story just isn’t tugging at my heart.
Pity, I was compiling reasons why he should stay........
........Just kidding! LOL
What the F ever loser...
Go back to PR and collect our welfare check...
If any tweeters care:
Her twitter is @durgaone.
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