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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#Winning
The struggle is real.
Idiot leftist.
He just needs to move to Cuba. It’s a paradise with free unicorn rides.
Oye, pendejo...
Do like all the others in history, who, when they couldn’t take it in a country and grew tired when things didn’t go their way, left for what they thought would be greener pastures.
May I suggest a couple places more to your liking, like...
Venezuela and Cuba. But, like others have said, Canada is a good enough place and you don’t have to put up with Trump, nor his ‘deplorable’ supporters.
BTW, I was born in P.R. too, and lived in NY City for a very long time, and I’ve yet to hear about any country as good as America. You don’t belong in MY AMERICA.
Apparently, you’ve been using your ass as brains, because, as far as anybody with even 2 brain cells can tell, the U.S. is a lot better off since Trump replaced that phony that preceded him. An in fact, the country is in much better shape than perhaps any time in the last 100 years. And, even you, as a Hispanic, are better off than under Obama or Clinton or any other liberal democrat.
Begone! Idiota pendejo.
+1
Wow!! A true TRUMP endorsement. It must be working!
“Move to Canada.”
LOL I’m also from canada and unlike in this country, the guidelines are now stricter for Canadian immigrants including education, assets and health (they now take a sample of your blood). This wetback’s application will get rejected.
Asta BYE, BYE!!!!!!
AMF.
Good. Leave Mr. S. Ramirez de Arellano. But doubt you actually will...
Don’t take any hub caps with you.
I have a good buddy....PR, physician and conservative as he!!.
This will make his blood boil.
Adios, mofo.
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Cannot be said loudly enough-- no one wanted these whining, disloyal bastards here to begin with.
Seems to me that almost all legal immigrants have an attitude - an attitude like they are doing us a favor by coming to the USA. Is it just me or have it all wrong?
Give PR back to the PRs. We don’t need them
...my father 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.Her daddy was a smart man. He obviously knew what made America great and the importance of the rule of law and a blind justice system in making it a great land of opportunity.
Now we have a true President, the first in decades who is fighting the thoroughly corrupted Deep State communists, wiping out excessive regulations, fighting for fair trade deals, and championing America every chance he gets...but she calls him a "Leonidas Trujillo, the vain, rouge-wearing bloody dictator of the Dominican Republic" and further complains about a "wall of rejection and steel against people who speak my mother tongue."
She obviously did not learn a single thing from her smart father. What a miserable brat.
USA is a wonderful place for those who wish to make good lives. If anyone doesn’t like it, we hope s/he likes wherever they choose to go. Buen viaje!
Why didn’t we give P.R. independence after the Spanish-American War, like we did Cubar? Would have headed off a lot of problems. . .
Take is easy Pedro. GTFO.
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