shalena, i understand your reasoning but i also want to know if you and mountainannie truly think its wrong for people to expect to be treated as equals in a land where they say all men are created equal?
even when people arent abusing the system that is a sore spot for americans and people (even african americans) are told to go back where they came from if they dare complain about racism. i just dont understand it. its as if people are supposed to be content w being a second class citizen and having to work 10 times harder because they werent born the right color. even if they just so happened to build the country from the ground up the sentiment remains the same: gtfo.
You are talking to a BLACK WOMAN. I have encountered lots of racism in my 34 years and still encounter it. But that is not a reason to STEAL, LIE, and CHEAT. You think I came out of my mother's a$$ making over $100,000/yr? You think I din't have to prove,prove, and prove again that I was worth being admitted to Nursing school?
The difference between myself and these people (that we are speaking about) is that I don't think that the government of the USA OWES me something. I have always worked from age 15.5. My mother was on public assistance (Food Stamps and Medicaid) until I was in the 10th grade even though she worked 2 jobs (McDonald's in the morning and Subway Sandwiches at night) and whenever I wanted somehting that she couldn't afford, she told me straight up that it was because she didn't have an education. She never blamed the Government, she blamed herself...which is exactly where the blame lay.
These people think that WE owe THEM because their country is poor, WE owe THEM because they were born in a campo and went without food...like if they make it to the US, it is expected of them to rob us.
YES, they are going to have to work like donkeys. YES, they are going to have to work 10 hours to make what someone else would make in 5. Yes, they are going to have to live in the projects...that's just the way the world is. If they don't like it, do something to change THEMSELVES to achieve more...these people come here (not just Dominicans) and live for YEARS and don't even learn the language. What the f*ck?!#? And we cater to them, you call a business and it says "For English: Press 1", I shouldn't have to freaking press 1, I am calling in the USA!!!
Let me walk into any business here in Santiago and DEMAND an English interpreter...the guy at the door with the gun will be escorting me out quickly.
Not all Dominicans are like this, I must say. I have so many friends whose parents busted their a$$es when they got to the USA...I admire those people. But I have no patience for lazy, thieving, good for nothing Non-Americans who think that because they happened to be born poor, that I need to take care of them and their children for the rest of their lives. Like I said in another thread...That's a personal problem that they need to take up with God...he was the one who had them be born where and when they were born. Punto
SHALENA
It must be all that bigotry against Dominicans that forces women to get pregnant and have babies they can't afford.
Last time I checked, there was a long wait at the U.S. consulate of Dominicans trying to get to the U.S. so it can't that bad here...
Amen, my children are 15, 10, and 6...why the age gaps, Momma is responsible and each one I had I made sure I was able to take care of them. Put my children's name in ANY welfare sytem computer and NOTHING will come up...and I had my oldest when I was
18!!!
We even try to give them FREE birth control, and they won't take it or take it and won't use it because half of them have the same Marido and are trying to outbeat each other with the number of kids they have...
SHALENA