Josefa Valdivia

When I came to this country in 1996, one of the many good things that I was pleased to learn about was the well-being, privileges and rights that African Americans enjoy, better than in any other country in the world. I remember that a lady from that minority community who worked with me said that they were discriminated against and mistreated here and that made me laugh. What would she know what it is like to be discriminated against not just because of race, but simply because of thinking differently? Over the years, I have understood much more about the subject and I have verified with my own experience, how many perks the black community has in the United States, how many millionaire achievers there are among them, and how those who do not work and have children each year, receive the maximum help of the Department of Children and Family. I also found that a large part of these African Americans are jealous of the help that Hispanics and other immigrants are given here. They see us as a competition in everything, including school scholarships, jobs, and other benefits that this great country rewards those with the lowest income. A “poor man” in the United States has a standard of living equivalent to the wealthy middle class in many Latin American or European countries. I have also witnessed that homeless people cannot be forced to go to shelters because their rights of self-determination are violated and that the vast majority of them, with exceptions, are addicted to some drug or drink, with which they are makes it almost impossible to return to a normal life. They receive a check, food stamps and free medical care paid by taxpayers, unless they had to do with drug trafficking. But I always wondered how an immigrant could improve and get ahead and these homeless people missed the opportunities to live in this nation having been born here. In short, I could write much more about these topics that we know in a personalized way. I am outraged to hear Michelle Obama say that "whites have never given anything" to her who became the first lady of the most prosperous country in the world, allowing her and her entire family to become billionaires, including former President Barack Obama. , precisely with the vote of the great white American majority. That resentment that does not end because of a time that is already history, because of that slavery that is extinguished, is what leads many African Americans to distort reality, to become losers. Slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, promulgated by President Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War. The. Cases of racism are individual, not of the government or its institutions. Continuing in the role of victim is self-discrimination, self-lowering, self-limiting and allowing oneself to be manipulated by enemies of this land. Don't be fooled. As a fool from my town said back in Cuba: "... who are you going to tell that story to, are you going to make me fool?