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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Dude/Dudette folks from P.R. are U.S. citizens...
AMF.
Adios, My Friend.
Just another communist Latino that really wishes Che was still around. Good riddance.
Puerto Rico has some aspects that can be very appealing, to Puerto Ricans. It is, for one thing, home. That’s where the extended family probably lives, all in one place, or very nearby. It is familiar and comfortable. It is also, for very many people, a community, a built-in group of friends and friends of friends, of relatives and relatives of relatives. Its a small island.
It is almost the opposite of the anonymous, disconnected, and lonely US urban life. In the US also, even if one has family here, these people are usually widely separated.
If someone is from a small town in the US, it is something like that, and more so.
His overt reasons are spurious of course, venting partisanship and ethnomania.
Don’t move away. It is a good place and we are better when it is not politics time.
Ah enter the virtue signaler.
Send the mutt some cheese to go with his whine.
Adios
Commie troll. Trying to incite. She’s a citizen. She’s pandering on illegals. PR’s
and Mexicans are not immediate cousins but rivals in the Spanish hierarchy.
She’s a twisted sister.
Unfortunately, despite this guy’s opportunity of a lifetime, he does not know what America is all about.
err...gal?
Bye! Don’t let the fence hit you where the sun don’t shine!
Like asta la vista baby!!! I am sure the spelling is wrong however I am not Hispanic!!! Asta BYE, BYE, baby!!!!
...because it felt so much safer when Ferguson was burning...
Hasta la bye-bye.
She needs to quit talking and take a hike while simultaneously renouncing her citizenship. Works for me.
Vaya con Dios, puta!
Just move to Cuba.
Your whiny ass will fit right in.
We could probably buy you a one way ticket to Havana.
If we do, you have to promise to never come back to America.
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