Posted on 10/23/2020 6:53:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
As election fever rises to new levels every few hours, my mind goes back to November 2016. In particular, two incidents that occurred following Donald Trump's stunning victory stand out in my memory.
A week or so after the election, I was leaving my local post office when I spied a bunch of keys lying on the curb. I picked them up and went inside to ask if they belonged to anyone. A woman I spoke with recognized me from a sitar recital we'd attended, and we began chatting. Whenever we saw a passerby, we would ask if the keys were theirs. They would shake their heads and continue walking, but one elderly gentleman stopped to talk.
After commending our diligence with the lost property, he remarked that we looked as though we had not been born in this country. My acquaintance named the Asian nation from where her parents had migrated, and I said I was born in India. At once the man joined his palms in a namaste and listed his favorite Indian foods. Then he said, "Isn't it a shame, what's happening in our city?"
He was referring to the post-election protests raging across Los Angeles. It was a shame, we agreed. I thought he would proceed to share how long it had taken him to drive from point A to point B — a favorite topic when a crisis occurs in L.A. — but the man said nothing about traffic. Instead, he steered the conversation in a completely different direction.
"Donald Trump will build that wall and send people like you back."
The statement came out of left field, but only for me. My acquaintance from the sitar recital promptly asserted that this would indeed be the case,
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Thanks for posting!
A great read and much food for thought.
Loved her bravery and stand.
IMHO, when someone has to ‘fear’ being ‘sent back to the country they came from’...something is illegal about that and they KNOW IT!!! Only doing the right thing the right and legal way will set us free to truly LIVE!!!
Praise God from whom all blessing flow!!
Why should she be send back to her former country? She came her legally. She became a citizen. This is her country now.
so many people likethose she described living in silicon valley these days... socialist imports...
I loved this!
Sorry, I was not talking about this lady, but the illegal aliens!!!
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