it would be irresponsible and remiss of me to not mention my thoughts and feelings on what has been going on with our Latin brothers and sisters. I make no apologies for what I am about to say but hear me out.
I find it wonderful and very poetic in the rescue of these fine men. Why would anyone need an apology for that? Give it a momo and you'll understand...It is a testament to the will and love of brothers and sisters and a nation to come to call and provide the necessary aide to the trapped men and the families that miss them so. Never have I seen an exemplary instance of such love and togetherness and, most of all, civil duty.
I wasn't completely sure of my feelings when it all collapsed in on them, but as I watched along with the rest of the world I saw human nature at it best. There are many times I find that I couldn't say such a thing with a straight face as most anyone who knows me knows I hate all peoples equally and find the human race a disgrace and forlorn for the bad taste it leaves in my mouth daily. But today I was proud to be clumped in with them(even if I'm not really quite human by medical standards-more on that later)and even more proud that I can say to them "God bless you" in their own native tongue! I refrained from my opinions early on because some were quick to pity and judge and bet on the resolve of such, what we would consider a third world country, second class citizens.
I have friends that are fine examples of human and even some that are ignorant and prejudiced and even they have been flabbergasted by the whole ordeal. I wonder deep down inside if they that think ill of these people really understand the enormity of what they have achieved as a people and a nation?
My own country cannot do what they did for all the bureaucratic tape and the getting of one authority to "sign off" on the paperwork to get the job done...Look at what happened in the Gulf of Mexico this last spring.While we were busy blaming the English for their part in this NO ONE dared mum a word about a little well-known corporation called Halliburton that owned a good part of BP...gives one food for thought doesn't it? We destroyed our own watershed here and spent so much time blaming and naming that we also destroyed lives and families and the economy and consider ourselves better than our peers, other countries. Not today we weren't! Chile shined through, they didn't sit at a board meeting and wonder who was to blame while these men suffered and their families along with them. They didn't prevent the moms and sisters and brothers and children and and wives from staying there and providing support when necessary to get the job done. They got dirty. They dug and they planned and they sent food and morale down to their men, their civilians, their people. Even their president came out with family in tow to lend a hand and moral support and the men that came up were happy and knew what they had. They had a family larger than any American ever could.
It makes me sad and filled with disgust for the peoples that are my neighbors and the men and women I trust to run this country, but gives me hope that there are a peoples out there that still care. We still have men and women struggling to get their lives back in order after their ordeal here in the coastal waters of the Gulf. I would be proud to cook and clean for those people and to break bread at any table or stoop with them.
The men and women will go to sleep this evening with happy hearts and contentment and ease of mind as they should. They should be proud of the example they have set for the rest of the world to live by and hold their heads proud that they are one nation, one family and all together again. Children have dads to play ball with and women have husbands to comfort them and parents have sons to care for them when it is their time of need and a nation will go on. Here we have people who are told no and sent away and sleeping in the streets while people walk over them and spit on them and fight over who has a right to be here or not. We are intolerant of immigrants when right now there isn't one person who is legally and properly a rightful owner of this land that was stolen from its peoples. A pity we can't pull together and love our brothers and sisters and empathize with their personal reasons and choices for being here. We are all immigrants or children and offspring of. I have friends that are first generation immigrants and friends that are legal aliens and friends that are illegal too(don't ask - I won't tell)and even I myself have no rights here being who I am genetically.
My illegal friends feel bad for us Americans because they have been treated better by our system than it treats its own. They love the freedoms they have and the jobs they work that are too beneath us "true" Americans to do. They work their asses off the way they were taught by their parents in the born countries and homes they come from, the third world nations. Most of them have far superior educations to that of our own children and cherish every moment like it was the last because they know what it is to go hungry and to go without clothes or a bed or food. Today every Latin American citizen is a king. Proud. Today I am proud of my friends and cousins and their families. I am a French/Native American/Carpathian born American citizen but I am also Latin and I am proud. Congrats to the Chilean men and women and "Que Dios los bendiga y te guarde!"~mobe's love to you all no matter who you are and where you lay your head this night...may the gods bless us all
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