You Know What’s The Ultimate
‘Place Of Privilege’? Living In The USA
The Federalist,
by
J. Motos Gordon
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
7/8/2020 3:50:46 AM
From the moment I first saw a helicopter land in the rice fields of my small town in the Philippines when I was a kid, I was captivated. I wanted to fly. I never thought I’d ever get to fly anything but the homemade kites we used to make out of cement bags and bamboo sticks.
Then I got an amazing, life-changing gift: opportunity. When I was about 10 years old, my mom brought me to the United States. She had come to the U.S. many years before with only about $200 in her pocket when she stepped off the plane. She made a life for herself,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 7/8/2020 6:49:59 AM (No. 470850)
BINGO.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/8/2020 7:31:39 AM (No. 470885)
Amen! The snowflakes out tearing down statues wouldn’t know how to survive if their smart phones died much less how to provide necessities for themselves.
Just one of the millions of wonderful things about this country is that no one will ever force you to stay here. Some countries force you to stay or die trying to leave. There are no guard towers on our borders, manned with machine gun toting government thugs who are there to shoot you if you dare to put a toe over the line. I saw those towers while living in Eastern Europe in the early 80’s. I saw, up close and personal, what communism has to offer. So, as the author says, if you don’t like it here, get out. No one will stop you and no one will miss you.
God bless America!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
edgar 7/8/2020 7:51:17 AM (No. 470902)
Somebody give me a cheeseburger!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 7/8/2020 8:06:44 AM (No. 470925)
American by birth, Southern by the grace of God.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/8/2020 8:08:44 AM (No. 470926)
It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that people don't risk everything to seek a land of oppression. Any self respecting feral cat can recolonize that the traffic over around and under the walls between the utopia of equal outcome and the competitive landscape of equal opportunity only goes one way, to freedom.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Namma 7/8/2020 8:19:52 AM (No. 470944)
The young people in Hong Kong fighting for freedom hold up the Stars and Stripes To them it is a symbol of living free.
Here in this country we have young people dressing in black, hiding their faces to protect their identity, burning the flag, looting, killing, beating up Americans who believe in freedom, pushing to take our government away and living under oppression calling them selves antifa. Half azzed backwards!
Antifa members should trade places with the freedom fighters in Hong Kong.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
swarfer 7/8/2020 8:38:41 AM (No. 470974)
There are many people who will say or do anything to get what they want no matter what the social, moral and political wreckage they leave behind. Their power is out of proportion to their actual numbers because they use a mix of threats, intimidation, property destruction and violence to hold ordinary people hostage.
LGBTQ and BLM are successfully using this strategy to upend our political and social system so it will be replicated by other disaffected interest groups.
Environmental groups pioneered similar tactics more peacefully via protests, gatherings, occupations and endless stalling litigation. Projects that could have improved the lives of tens of millions are deferred or cancelled for insignificant reasons.
Our media as well as our educational system propagandizes the view that disagreeable electoral outcomes are invalid. Zero tolerance and forced acceptance is justified because they're "right".
Welcome to America.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mekkkk 7/8/2020 8:40:21 AM (No. 470979)
As usual
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
3XALADY 7/8/2020 9:19:10 AM (No. 471016)
Would someone please remind Ilhan Omar what this country is! For some reason she keeps wanting to change it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/8/2020 9:20:32 AM (No. 471018)
Great article but I want to address the privilege part. Being accused of having grown up with 'privilege' is not something that is built into our lives a sort of ghost who lifts some and not others. White privilege is getting an education find a job that suits your person, attain a structure to live in comfortably to raise and care for your family to the disgruntled race who accuse those of privilege should try to have or create some privilege of their own. Black privilege doesn't mean they can't have some, Asian privilege can be had like Mr. Gordon. Hispanic privilege is attainable so just try it and stop accusing a race of people for having 'privilege. Systemic racism is really systemic ignorance and has nothing to do with racism.
Some should wear the military uniform walk on foreign soil then come home to America your mind and attitude with love of country like on the 4th of July will make you proud trust me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/8/2020 9:37:03 AM (No. 471044)
If I were the ancestor of Black slaves who were brought to America a couple of hundred years ago, I would be glad that my ancestors survived and conceived progeny in the USA, thus allowing me to be born and live in America, rather than if I were living today to be a resident in a primitive native village someplace in the interior of Africa.
The USA does not look so bad to the hundreds of millions of foreigners who wish they could have been born in the USA, and who desperately want to immigrate to America, with many of them risking their lives to get here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/8/2020 9:48:04 AM (No. 471067)
Very uplifting article. It often takes someone from the outside looking in to remind us what we have here as we continue to build upon our proud history. Unfortunately for the filthy riff-raff that are trying to tear this country down, it makes them look even worse, impudent, ungrateful, lazy trash that do not even deserve to be here. The ultimate prison sentence should be deportation to anywhere in the third world and it should be used frequently.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 7/8/2020 9:52:33 AM (No. 471076)
Good commentary, and so true.
I have known a number of Philipinos over the years, all good hard working people, real contributors.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/8/2020 10:10:58 AM (No. 471094)
Every single person who has somehow become a citizen of the United States has in effect won the "Lotto of Life." It doesn't make any difference what color you are or how your ancestors got here, you are in the best country in the world, with the greatest opportunities to live well. And if you don't believe it, people are literally dying to get in here. It's "Lifeboat America."
As an immigrant (now a citizen), it boggles my mind that anyone is even tolerating the utter nonsense going on right now. The minute I hear any idiot saying they want to "totally transform this country," I instantly yell, "To what, Somalia, Venzuela?!" Are you kidding me?
And tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus? Hey, Bozos, pull up your pants and go discover a new country yourself if you think that's so easy. Ditto for George Washingon, Thomas Jefferson, etc. Get back to me when you accomplish 0ne-millionth of what they built. All I see in all the flames is the jealous rage of people who can't stand what others have accomplished and so are hell-bent on desttruction of everything. Pathetic.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 7/8/2020 10:40:13 AM (No. 471142)
This is a wonderful piece! The privilege is to live in the United States of America. When I hear “white privilege”, I think about the stories I heard about the Great Depression as a child. Stories about self-made millionaires coming after those years. The privilege they had was living in this country and to work day and night on an idea that they believed in and to never give up or lose hope even when the odds were stacked against them.
Some of those people went on to live grand lives. You can do that in America. There were others that you never would have known were wealthy, if you didn’t know them, or something about them. That was our next door neighbor when I was a girl. They lived in a wood frame house similar to ours and drove a similar vehicle. They were privileged to live as they pleased. Two of the sweetest people I have ever known. Kind, caring and helpful to everyone regardless of “skin color”.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/8/2020 12:18:14 PM (No. 471282)
Lefties, let's play a game. The rules are simple: we will provide you an all-expenses paid trip to North Korea. Once there, all you have to do is openly advocate for Kimmie's assassination. Kimmie then captures you and brings you to the border with South Korea. His border guards then release you and give you a 30-second head start to run for your life to the south before they open fire. Assuming you are still alive afterwards, they then bring you back to Kimmie who either gives you the flame thrower or wood chipper treatment. If he is in a good mood, he'll feed you into the wood chipper head first. Head first is considered a "privilege" in NORK.
Any questions, lefties?
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I may be a relic from the 60’s but with all this unbridled fomenting hatred.. I still firmly believe this:
AMERICA.....Love it or leave it!
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