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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I stopped reading there.
I was unable to write her entire long name when I posted this article. Hence, I had to use her “S” initial for her first name. Her name is Susanne Ramirez de Arellano. I really wish she’d be invited on Tucker Carlson’s show - or interviewed by Mark Steyn.
“If you speak Spanish or look like me, it has become another name for hate.”
She may be Puerto Rican but she looks as white as anyone else. She just wants to be labeled as a “person of color “ for the victim benefits.
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If only these words were coming from Juan Williams.
Well bye. And good riddance. Not that anyone with a brain believes the author will actually leave.
I’m Mexican-American and conservative. Being Latino and/or bilingual is a huge advantage in the workplace and academia. It’s my politics that I have to hide or be careful with. I’m in a protected class until I express my opinion.
He’s really leaving? Let’s see the proof. He’s pulling up stakes, registering as a citizen of ANOTHER country, and not declaring ANY benefits from the USA as of a certain date? Somebody track this...
He won’t be moving. Leftists always promise to leave when we have a Republican President but they never do. They are lying drama queens.
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