How come the states who are least likely to get bombed got to pick the President?
Conversely, how come the states most likely to get bombed picked John Kerry?
Anyway, lots of people were talking (and I know it’s just idle talk) about leaving the country but that’s not a valid option. In fact, a friend (the one most likely to leave the country, though for different reasons) called us on on it. Here’s my reply:
OK,
bad word you’re the one moving to Italy ASAP. And I’m not leaving.
Did your father have all his property confiscated and then get thrown in a prison camp just because his parents were from a foreign country and were easily distinguished, and have this happen in the land of the free and the home of the brave? Were your grandparents restricted from purchasing property because of their race? Do you have to watch what bars you go into because the patrons don’t like the color of your skin (and believe me, this comes and goes and gets much worse at times even in my chi-chi neighborhood)? When the country of your grandparents — no, great-grandparents since your grandparents were immigrants — did well economically and started buying property in this country, were you told to go “back home” even though the Dutch owned more of America than “back home”? And have you been “back home” to find that your real home is here in the US?
Bad word that the Vice-President likes to use in the Senate all you white bastards, I’m staying.
OK, so that’s not a completely valid argument, but though it’s hard being here sometimes, it’s still home. And let me digress and complete the racist part of my ranting to say this, “Damn, another Asian woman with a white man. Ain’t that a bitch?” (There’s no reason for the last quote, I just think it sounds funny coming from a bitter Asian man.)