Just read about the Indian American woman who confronted Sean Spicer at an Apple store over the weekend. The altercation was unwarranted in my opinion..But his response floored me !
"Such a great country that allows you to be here"
Is he for real?
The fact that she is not white( or, I'll concede, not African American or maybe Latino) means she came from somewhere? She couldn't possibly have been born here? This is the twenty first century for heaven's sake! The Mayflower is ancient history...But history has been written and rewritten multiple times in this great country of ours and there is great pride in where we are on the global stage now and that means immigrants of every stripe contributed to our country's premier position in the world.
And the late twentieth and early twenty first century saw a huge influx of Asians who created the software boom which propelled us to greater heights.
One can always spin his reply so many different ways and considering that he has this illusion that he is the spin master personified he will walk this back for sure .
But as the mother of children who were born here and are American citizens in every sense of the word,I am aghast at the kind of world my children will be living in, if their skin color still is of significance as regards belonging or not belonging. You always hope for better things for your children, but I guess you don't always get it. And that is not an unjust hope is it?
You can whitewash away a lot of things, but the direct correlation between racist actions against Indians and the current regime's rhetoric about America for Americans cannot be ignored.
Some crazy loony guy setting fire to a convenience store owned by Indians mistaken to be Arabs makes us roll our eyes. But the Press Secretary of the White House condescendingly putting an ' immigrant' in her place is a problem. Ignorance is not bliss...It is a very dangerous snake that if fed well,rears its head and destroys the hand that fed it.
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