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Showing Original Post only (View all)Whoa II... Shit Just Got Real... 'Dear Hillary, Let Me Introduce You to My Abuela' - HuffPo [View all]
Dear Hillary, Let Me Introduce You to My AbuelaBarbara Sostaita - Latin Voices/HuffPo
Posted: 12/23/2015 9:08 am EST Updated: 12/23/2015 9:59 am EST
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Dear Hillary,
Yesterday, a post appeared on your blog titled "8 Ways Hillary Clinton Is Just Like Your Abuela." Many Latinxs took offense to this article. My friends at Latino Rebels published a response to your blog post, including a round up of Twitter reactions, found here: http://www.latinorebels.com/2015/12/22/just-when-you-thought-hillary-clinton-couldnt-hispander-any-more-she-did-it-again/
Your post also troubles me. Not only because it says you "care about children everywhere," yet you once said Central American refugee children "should be sent back." Not even because you've once again appropriated our language and our culture when it's convenient for your political agenda. I'm upset because of my real, flesh-and-blood abuela, because your narrative erases her reality.
Let me introduce you to my abuela.
My abuela grew up in Buenos Aires in the 1930s and '40s. An orphan, she lived in a nunnery until the age of 18 and, later, with the family whose children she nannied until she met and married my grandfather. My abuela lived through Argentina's Great Depression, through a violent military coup in 1976, through thousands of deaths and disappearances during what is now known as the "Dirty War."
She cried when Evita died. She cried when her husband died of cancer. She cried when she heard that thousands of young boys who could have been her sons died in a failed attempt to save Las Islas Malvinas from the United Kingdom. My grandmother's life was not just the pain of imperialism and the suffering brought on by a cruel political system, however. In 1964, her only son -- my father -- was born.
In 1983, she returned to the polls to choose a president in the new democracy. In 1990, she saw her son marry the love of his life. The next year, she held her first grandchild in her arms for the first time. You see, Hillary, my abuela is nothing like you.
In 1999, my abuela was once again left orphaned when my parents, my sister and I were pushed out of Argentina for economic reasons and forced to resettle in the United States. While Hillary lived in the White House, my sister and I lived apart from our only living grandmother.
Separated from her for six years, we were unable to feel our abuela's love. Meanwhile, she was kept from the only family she had left. In 2005...
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Whoa II... Shit Just Got Real... 'Dear Hillary, Let Me Introduce You to My Abuela' - HuffPo [View all]
WillyT
Dec 2015
OP
And, Hillary Was Named After Sir Edmund Hillary as well... Lest We Forget That...
CorporatistNation
Dec 2015
#68
How I love all incarnations (if that's even conceivable) of the Addams Family!
Proserpina
Dec 2015
#102
" 1) She wears a headscarf 'round the house"..."2) She appreciates good pancake syrup".
Ken Burch
Dec 2015
#66
Hillary embarrasses herself again... I almost feel sorry for her (so out of touch).
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2015
#79
it was so mutual, artislife. they died ten months apart, they were such a love
roguevalley
Dec 2015
#54
American Imperialism to set up confiscation instead of a non-violent plan of resettlement and
DhhD
Dec 2015
#96
I hate to break this to you but everyone that participated in this thread are hereby banned!
Enthusiast
Dec 2015
#18
"Central American children sent back": 70,000 children w/no parent were sent here.
KittyWampus
Dec 2015
#36
Nearly all of the children qualified for asylum even if "responsible adults" are found.
Luminous Animal
Dec 2015
#49
Whoah, Dude... Don't you know denying people's experiences is way bad. You need to listen, man!
Bonobo
Dec 2015
#65
They forget their hypocrisies from day to day; they think we'll forget too. Fat chance.
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2015
#72
You're such a partisan that I no longer take your opinion with much seriousness.
Bonobo
Dec 2015
#75
Coretta Scott King is beautiful then and now, 23~ It's really nice to know who your avatar is..
Cha
Dec 2015
#89
Good point Bonobo. Situational ethics comes to mind. Our dirty wars, everywhere, have created
sabrina 1
Dec 2015
#83
Even non-unhinged Sanders supporters are saying they don't understand the anger in this OP
Number23
Dec 2015
#85
They Are Talking About Keeping Families Separated... I'm Sure There Are Far Worse Stories...
WillyT
Dec 2015
#60
It's about an privileged Anglo appropriating an intimate bit of Hispanic culture.
Ken Burch
Dec 2015
#64
I meant the image of HRC reading to me at night, not a Hispanic child's Noni.
Ken Burch
Dec 2015
#104