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Reclaiming America? - LTTE [View all]
What a great letter in my local newspaper!
Reclaiming America?
Why is it that I don’t ask my friend Helen what she means when she says, “I want my country back?” We’re the same age, 84.
Does she mean she wants the time back when our high school classmate David was made fun of by the other guys because he was “different”? David committed suicide at age 17.
Or our friend Angie, who is black? Back then Angie couldn’t try on a dress at a department store downtown — and she certainly couldn’t use the restroom.
Or maybe our friend Harold, who is Jewish? He sat in his fifth-grade classroom wistfully looking out the window as all his buddies trudged across Wornall Road to practice the Christmas program?
Or is she remembering our buddy Carol, who had to either go to her Aunt Martha’s in Webb City, Mo., to have the baby and give it up or go to that place on 43rd Street, have the baby and give it up?
So, why don’t I ask my friend Helen what she means when she says, “I want my country back?” Do I not ask her because I don’t want to hear her answer?
Alma Price
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/26/3627768/letters-legos-secret-service-catholic.html#storylink=cpy
Why is it that I don’t ask my friend Helen what she means when she says, “I want my country back?” We’re the same age, 84.
Does she mean she wants the time back when our high school classmate David was made fun of by the other guys because he was “different”? David committed suicide at age 17.
Or our friend Angie, who is black? Back then Angie couldn’t try on a dress at a department store downtown — and she certainly couldn’t use the restroom.
Or maybe our friend Harold, who is Jewish? He sat in his fifth-grade classroom wistfully looking out the window as all his buddies trudged across Wornall Road to practice the Christmas program?
Or is she remembering our buddy Carol, who had to either go to her Aunt Martha’s in Webb City, Mo., to have the baby and give it up or go to that place on 43rd Street, have the baby and give it up?
So, why don’t I ask my friend Helen what she means when she says, “I want my country back?” Do I not ask her because I don’t want to hear her answer?
Alma Price
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/26/3627768/letters-legos-secret-service-catholic.html#storylink=cpy
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