
@NPR @WLRN @TimPadgett2 The Venezuelan woman in this story as a former lawyer there, will do far better in Spain then in America, many Latinos with some education will. It’s not racist to view “Bananas and Rice” girl as appropriate to pick tomatoes in Minnesota or the central valleys of California. She cannot express herself in English even if she is a victim of a racially charged ICE incident.—The issue is the mixed-signaling we receive from these communities in cultural pride versus humility in faith and dress. Ilhan Omar’s daughter is at Columbia and Bard (as a graduate mind you) trying to “shut it down”—instead of working with this community after picking tomatoes to increase their cultural assimilation in language and social comportment to transition them from picking tomatoes to reading labels at a job at McDonalds. She could put soap on a burger because everything is labeled “McSoap, McSauce, McApron”—The acculturation process takes generations of work, unless they cloister as “fundamentalist” communities like Hasidic Jews or Polygamous Mormons. And that’s a problem itself—because you don’t have to be racist about it.Texas had to go into David Koresh’s compound in Waco—because there is a fine line between cult compound and ‘religious freedom community’. They can beat their chests all they want in Irving Texas, are they going plow a field or dig a well with that machismo? Then our Venezuelan lawyer might be able to stay in America! How is this not sociologically “true enough”—it’s not a fact for an entire community unless they unite as one and then it becomes a battle of what they will and won’t do for work. They have to learn the ground they’re praying on by working it. Latino Americans were here first, and they’re being converted in Colorado. Faith is one thing, but if the cultural narcissism from the Middle East tells them in their new faith that they should not pick tomatoes for ‘colonizers’ when geographically A Guatemalan should be teaching “Bananas and Rice Girl” what tomatoes are ripe for picking. She’s of this hemisphere (The Guatemalan) 🤬🤷♂️




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