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Yeah, so, the other day Kyle flipped off the bed and got a concussion, so I got to spend the whole evening at the hospital. He was throwing up and was really lathargic for a few hours, until they tried putting one of those oxygen masks on him. Then he started yelling at and hitting the guy, stopped puking, and I guess started to get better. Apparently he was quite amused during the ambulance ride, too. Weird kid. He's totally fine now though, and has decided that hospitals aren't really that scary after all.
I think I'm gonna go visit Kyle's old special needs class at Butler this week. I'll ask Donna if they'll be any job openings there next year, because that was such a fun class to aide for. I wanna see some of the old second graders, now third graders, too... like Jesus, Edwin, and Alec. I love those kids to death. Especially Jesus. He totally reminds me of Kyle when he was that age. Perfect little babyface with big eyes and a bright mind. He was just learning how to use a dynavox last year when I was aiding there, so it'd be fun to see how much progress he's made. He was always so determined.
It makes me sad though, because his parents can be thrown into the "illegal, unskilled workers" category. His parents understand English well enough to carry on a conversation, but they can't read or write in either Spanish or English. So, in addition to it being sad, it makes me pissed off that people would tell them to "go back to where they came from."
Yeah, uh-huh. Fuck kids like Jesus and his family, it's just too damn bad that he was born in a country too shitty and to parents too poor and uneducated to make it in Mexico, right? Whatever. Fuck everyone who thinks that it is just too damn bad for them. It's hard enough to raise a child with cerebral palsy in a middle-class American family (I would know), I can't even begin to fathom how hard it would be to do in a Mexican ghetto. If Jesus was still in Mexico I doubt he would even have a functional wheelchair (chairs for kids with CP can cost thousands of dollars and usually have to be custom-built). And you can bet just about anything that he wouldn't have access to the expensive medications needed to keep him from throwing everything up and constantly having epileptic seizures. He wouldn't have a dynavox. He wouldn't be in a healthy educational environment. He would never amount to anything in life. He would probably just sit at home with his desperate mother all day until he finally died some pathetic young death.
So, yeah, fuck people who don't care. Fuck people who act like it is such a big inconvenience to deal with Latino immigrants.
You know what a real inconvenience is? Living in a country that can't take care of you, and when you get desperate and move (illegally or otherwise), being contantly told you are "unworthy" to live in such a "great country." Inconvenience is working bullshit minimum wage jobs because, hey, it's better than what you made in your homeland. Inconvenience is being expected to adopt a new language and culture overnight, even though you didn't have the ability to learn the language before you moved. Inconvenience is working harder and earning a job fairly, and then being told that you're "stealing" it. Inconvenience is having your family ask you to hop the boarder because they need the extra money to survive. Inconvenience is having your parents move you to a new country when you're in elementary school, not knowing the language, and having the education system let you fall through the cracks like a piece of dirt. Inconvenience is worrying that you'll be deported or thrown in prison because all you wanted to do was make your life better for you and your family. Inconvenience is being told to "learn the language" when you already speak it, and the critic is too stupid to understand an accent. That, and many other things which affect many Latinos on an every-day basis, is fucking inconvenient.
The people I've heard talking shit on immigrants don't deal with them on a personal, day-to-day basis. They see a Mexican by a bus stop, working at a restaurant, or on TV, and they act like they know who they are. Well, I do deal with immigrants on a personal level. I have friends who are immigrants, I've had co-workers and classmates who are immigrants, and I've worked with elementary students who are immigrants. You know what they're doing? They're trying to get by in a bullshit society, just like you are, and most of them aren't doing it half as comfortably as the people who were born here. So shut your mouth, those of privilege who would disagree, I don't want to hear it. Go whine to a fucking Minuteman.
I'm still not saying everyone who wants to come to America should be here, because hey, frankly, there isn't enough room. But I will NEVER condemn an individual for wanting to get out of a shitty situation which they didn't make, even if they resort to breaking the law. I cannot look at an immigrant family and tell them to go home, because to me that is the same as telling an abused wife to go back to her husband.
Oh well, that stupid wall that we're wasting our tax dollars on won't work anyways. Whatever.
I think I'm gonna go visit Kyle's old special needs class at Butler this week. I'll ask Donna if they'll be any job openings there next year, because that was such a fun class to aide for. I wanna see some of the old second graders, now third graders, too... like Jesus, Edwin, and Alec. I love those kids to death. Especially Jesus. He totally reminds me of Kyle when he was that age. Perfect little babyface with big eyes and a bright mind. He was just learning how to use a dynavox last year when I was aiding there, so it'd be fun to see how much progress he's made. He was always so determined.
It makes me sad though, because his parents can be thrown into the "illegal, unskilled workers" category. His parents understand English well enough to carry on a conversation, but they can't read or write in either Spanish or English. So, in addition to it being sad, it makes me pissed off that people would tell them to "go back to where they came from."
Yeah, uh-huh. Fuck kids like Jesus and his family, it's just too damn bad that he was born in a country too shitty and to parents too poor and uneducated to make it in Mexico, right? Whatever. Fuck everyone who thinks that it is just too damn bad for them. It's hard enough to raise a child with cerebral palsy in a middle-class American family (I would know), I can't even begin to fathom how hard it would be to do in a Mexican ghetto. If Jesus was still in Mexico I doubt he would even have a functional wheelchair (chairs for kids with CP can cost thousands of dollars and usually have to be custom-built). And you can bet just about anything that he wouldn't have access to the expensive medications needed to keep him from throwing everything up and constantly having epileptic seizures. He wouldn't have a dynavox. He wouldn't be in a healthy educational environment. He would never amount to anything in life. He would probably just sit at home with his desperate mother all day until he finally died some pathetic young death.
So, yeah, fuck people who don't care. Fuck people who act like it is such a big inconvenience to deal with Latino immigrants.
You know what a real inconvenience is? Living in a country that can't take care of you, and when you get desperate and move (illegally or otherwise), being contantly told you are "unworthy" to live in such a "great country." Inconvenience is working bullshit minimum wage jobs because, hey, it's better than what you made in your homeland. Inconvenience is being expected to adopt a new language and culture overnight, even though you didn't have the ability to learn the language before you moved. Inconvenience is working harder and earning a job fairly, and then being told that you're "stealing" it. Inconvenience is having your family ask you to hop the boarder because they need the extra money to survive. Inconvenience is having your parents move you to a new country when you're in elementary school, not knowing the language, and having the education system let you fall through the cracks like a piece of dirt. Inconvenience is worrying that you'll be deported or thrown in prison because all you wanted to do was make your life better for you and your family. Inconvenience is being told to "learn the language" when you already speak it, and the critic is too stupid to understand an accent. That, and many other things which affect many Latinos on an every-day basis, is fucking inconvenient.
The people I've heard talking shit on immigrants don't deal with them on a personal, day-to-day basis. They see a Mexican by a bus stop, working at a restaurant, or on TV, and they act like they know who they are. Well, I do deal with immigrants on a personal level. I have friends who are immigrants, I've had co-workers and classmates who are immigrants, and I've worked with elementary students who are immigrants. You know what they're doing? They're trying to get by in a bullshit society, just like you are, and most of them aren't doing it half as comfortably as the people who were born here. So shut your mouth, those of privilege who would disagree, I don't want to hear it. Go whine to a fucking Minuteman.
I'm still not saying everyone who wants to come to America should be here, because hey, frankly, there isn't enough room. But I will NEVER condemn an individual for wanting to get out of a shitty situation which they didn't make, even if they resort to breaking the law. I cannot look at an immigrant family and tell them to go home, because to me that is the same as telling an abused wife to go back to her husband.
Oh well, that stupid wall that we're wasting our tax dollars on won't work anyways. Whatever.