I’m not a political person, and I tend
to stay out of things like this, but I think this thing with the Confederate
flag is getting out of hand. People are urging musicians to denounce the flag
that they’ve used in their art and pull TV shows from the air due to their
usage of the flag.
Yes, I’m white, but I’m far from
Southern.
Dukes
of Hazard has been around a very long time and everyone loves the show.
They mainly watch the show for Daisy in her short shorts anyway and the car
chases. I know what the flag stands for and so does everyone else, but not
everyone sees it like that anymore. At least, I don’t believe that they do.
In a time when gay people can finally
get married in all 50 states, I think we can let a flag fly.
Speaking of which, I’m so glad to live
in a nation where everyone can get married! Its about time America
My only wish is that my Great-Uncle
had lived long enough to see this happen. He passed away in 1990. I remember
watching TV when the first gay couple was allowed to get married in Boston
Allowing them to marry is the most
positive thing in the world.
I would like to state that I’m
appalled by many Americans who are still so backward in their way of thinking.
This is 2015 no 1815. Times have changed. African Americans can hold land,
work, vote, and hold a political office. Women can hold land, work, vote, and
hold a political office. Its time for people who think that minorities are
second or third class citizens to bugger off and realize that that’s just not
the case. It’s the way it was 200 years ago, but as I said, times have changed.
They are our equals and they needed to be treated as such.
People are idiots. That’s what the
bottom line is and always has been. People like to believe that they don’t
understand other races or other lifestyles, but the truth of the matter is that
they just don’t want to.
I would love to learn of another country
and immerse myself in it for awhile. I would love to speak Italian and live in Italy or speak Spanish and live in Spain or Mexico
or Puerto Rico . Or French.
My grandmother, may she rest in peace,
was a little racist. She thought that people shouldn’t intermarry and she was
so wrong in her way of thinking. I like to think that I’m not racist, though I’ve
been called racist many times in my line of work. I work in a hotel and many
times I’ve had to turn people away. Some of them were African American or Mexicans
or Puerto Ricans or Asian. I laugh when they walk away. Why? Because the owner
of the hotel I work at is Korean, my immediate boss is African American, I work
with Mexicans (I wish I could understand them a lot better than I do), and my
husband is Puerto Rican (I wish I could speak with my sisters-in-law and aunts
and uncles on his side).
What they don’t seem to understand is
that if you don’t have a credit or debit card or valid ID or that you live too
close to the hotel. I’m only doing my job, but as I said, I laugh. They just
don’t get it.
I know that they’ve had it rough, but
it wasn’t because of me. Possibly my ancestors, but not me.
Like them, I’m just glad to be alive
and to be able to live.
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