“This is a difficult country to look different in-the United States of Advertising, as Paul Krassner puts it-and if you are too skinny or too tall or dark or weird or short or frizzy or homely or poor or nearsighted, you get crucified. I did” ~ Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird).
When did we become a country of hate and ignorance, fearing and ridiculing those who are different from us? I suppose our “great nation” was built on these principles. Inscribed on our Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free”, is supposed to be part of the United States of America’s identity as “a home for immigrants”. It’s a sham, though. A fraudulent lie that we tell the rest of the world to lure the desperate and the hopeful. Once here, this “great nation” of ours continues to build its greatness on the backs of these starry-eyed immigrants and, when done with them, they are cast aside as useless and a burden, some being deported back to their native lands.
In recent years, I believed we were heading away from these hateful principles, but the recent election has exposed the festering, raw