The older i get the more i get interested about the Country i live in and my views on certain issues get stronger or dwindle as i increase my knowledge. I know a lot of my views people do not agree with, and that's fine with me. I do not get in discussions about my views b/c today i realized my very conservative black and white no Grey area views are surrounded by my mostly liberal friends. So i listen to their words, but listening to their opinion doesn't affect my decisions but most of the time as they talk my views just grow stronger as their words are complete opposite of what i feel.
One of my top two topics that this happens with is immigration and with all that's going on in AZ, in CA and in our nation this can be a heated and emotional debate for everyone. But last night i had one of those moments where i was done, my potato was baked and i stood my ground and i needed to vent about it today so this is my rant...
Last night i was feeding my son, having a ball as we always do, when someone knocked at the door. I asked who was there and i got no response, so i went to the door and i see two young men as i look through the peep hole so i answered it. They had notebooks in their hands and all i could think was here we go what do u want $ for and he said no ma'am i just wanna ask you to listen to my speech today. I say ok as my son was engrossed in yo gabba gabba at this time. His speech went something like, i am going around asking for people to sign up for the paper to help me pay for college i said ok maybe this has some weight to it, and through his jokes about coming to my house to read the paper with me and trying to hit on me at the same time he said something that just struck a cord in me, literally i heard the note strike in my head so loud that my spine got straight and my head tilted. He said "well im not a citizen and i cant get $ for school so i am in this program and if you get the paper then i get a percentage of $ to pay for school".
i was appalled and at the same time i wasnt mad at his gumpsion to get his hustle on to do what needed to be done for him to make it to where he needed to be. I interrupted his speech and asked him why he wasnt a citizen, he said well my parents brought me here when we were little. I said ok but your what 18 now , he said yea , why dont you start the necessary steps to become a citizen and his responses PISSED me off...he said "for what, i am here we are doing well i can wear nike's and stay in the newest fashions, but if we try to do it legally we will told to leave and i do not wanna mess up a good thing".
This is the next generation in this country and i am suppose to be sympathetic for you and give u money to go to college? You were sadly mistaken coming to my door asking me to take something away from my child to pass on to someone is taking bread away from all those in the system trying to do stuff legally.
I do not have any sympathetic feelings in this. Your parents set you up for failure and for every cause there is an affect. If your doing so well in school, in church, and in life pressing for stuff then think of how that motivation and power would be used in your home country to make things "better for the next", or even if you were legal here think about how going through the "right correct" steps would make an out look on those to come after you?? BUT now you are old enough to know that it is illegal and you do not do anything about it, when other people are married and fighting to get their spouse to live in the same country with them and the children they have created? But i am suppose to say oh you poor guy your parents brought here and this is all you know so its ok you can hustle people, not pay taxes, but use our public facilities that i pay my taxes on, get medical attention when u need it and not pay for it (but i work my ass off every day to make sure my son can pay his) but tax me for your expenses. I am suppose to be light hearted and break bread with you when came to my door and could let me know bluntly and boldly that i am paying for you to follow the latest trends as an adult with out any of the responsibility that the country, state, or county makes me accountable for as an adult.
You came to the wrong door buddy. He did get this said to his face and his response "if you werent gonna help you could have just said no",. I told you i wasnt interested when u started so now you get to hear my grip straight from the horses mouth.
The worst part is when I complain, in which i have every right to as a register informed voter, other people wanna attack my religious views or my political views. This is not about your point of view on my relationship with my savior, this is not about what the majority or what the minority of views that others in the GOP stand for say or represent. This is about Rose and her view and her opinion. This is about what i see and in the end result is how i feel about the situation.
For every if there is a then, for every cause there is an affect...no Grey area, no shaded area...that is black and white. I support what the SB1070 initiative was put in place to do (there are flaws in it, yes, but what its purpose for i support).
If i could have called the federal government last night and told them illegal people where walking around my residents last night soliciting for $ i would have, but with the current system of the state not enforcing federal laws would have gotten me no where but laughed at last night.
This pisses me off because i think illegal immigration fuels the fire to so many things this state and this nation are dealing with. Yes i know we are a country founded on immigrants but not illegal immigrants...we are a country that stole land yes you are right get over it, i said it get over it...thats what happens in wars and conflict the strongest bully wins unless u use your brain to out smart the bully and no one did so we won we have possession of it so get over it!
My ancestors were brought here illegally they didn't just jump a boarder. They fought to be legal, they fought for me to be accountable under the laws and participate in the legal process as a citizen...your parents denied you every law, every right and your neglect to even have the desire to fight for your right as a now adult to live in this country legally does nothing for you or those who come after you...and if you refuse to put the time and energy into being legal why should i put the time, sympathy and $ into you? That has nothing to do with my faith or beliefs in God, but beliefs in my country.
I do also understand that our immigration process and system needs to be dramatically revamped but where do u start revamping a system that people argue so much on what should be and how when so many people arent fired up either way? Thats one main thing that i hope the AZ Law accomplishes to. I hope it stirs up so much angry in so many people on way or the other that all they can do is concentrate on revamping and establishing whats bad and fixing all the errors. So in that capacity i applauded AZ too, b/c when things get extreme then people come out the wood works to complain or to stand up in agreeance, thats when the grey area neutral people go away and the Black White extreme come to the light baby! We are in that moment and i am thrilled to be in the time period of watching and fighting for one end to see How things play out.
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