"Its a Hard Life"

I know this article is a little late but due to a lot things going on I was not able to post it. Sorry for the delay but here it is.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kergan-edwardsstout/obamas-victory-and-the-aftermath-of-please-defriend-me_b_2089532.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed


     I recently read this article on someones post. When I started reading it I came to the conclusion that in a way I myself have been faced with such a problem. But the roles are different; they are not one of a LGBT matter but rather the roles are concerned with racial discrimination. Once the election was done and over with I was faced once again with the same racial discrimination I suffered through out my whole teen years. I was faced with the same angst and depression I felt when I came to live in a place where there is not much Hispanic culture. When I came to live in Pennsylvania I was faced with stares and derogatory terms. Whenever I became "friends" with people, but they for some reason or another got annoyed with me I was faced with derogatory terms that had never been there before. So once again I was faced with the same challenge. When the announcement was made that Obama had won my friends cousin who had voted for Romney came forward with her racial discrimination. I have known my friends cousin for 5 years now, and even though she knows that I am indeed Mexican, she has established very much that she likes me. However, she has still shown her true colors. On more then one occasion I was asked if I was a citizen. And the most recent comments from my friend's cousin following the downfall of Romney: 1)She said that illegals had voted for Obama and 2) she thinks that Hispanics should get out of the republican party anyway. My thinking is that she has gotten over the fact that I am Mexican and just sees me as a human being but when comments of that sort are said it means that deep down she still may contain racist views. There are so many things wrong with the comments made by her. I think that rasicm and being ignorant go hand in hand. For example, the first comment that "illegals" had voted for Obama is just pure bullshit. In no way whatsoever can undocumented people vote. When you go and vote you have to have proper identification to be able to vote. That was not the only person in my life who has recently made remarks insinuating that I am anti-American because of my political beliefs. So in conclusion I was faced with the same problem as the person in the blog. Do I want to completely cut ties with these types of people? Would cutting ties be doing exactly what I myself detest and cut people out for believing in something that is opposite of my belief? And if I didn't do such a thing, then what would I do now?

     My decision in the end was to not cut them out of my life. My co-author recently told me that various Republicans are coming out to support the DREAM Act and Iimmigration Reform. Some for political reasons of course, but some are changing their view because they believe it is the right thing to do. There by itself is a situation where a group of people solely believed in one thing but saw the error of their ways and decided to change for the best. I myself wanted to be the type of person that would keep these friends and acquaintances and help them see that other people have different opinions and help them be tolerable and see maybe on occasions that their way of thinking isn't precisely the best. At the moment I have a friend on Facebook who if she doesn't like any comments made by you she will delete you. I don't want to be like her I want to be a better person and let people have their opinions not shut them out for having an opinion that I percisly do not agree with.