PicklesPickles's Journal, 04 Nov 16

I watch it quite often. A constant reminder of reality. I hope I don't die before I fix the problem.. as she did..  

My previous host that played it was shut down. Been looking for another place to view. And since this is Youtube, I was able to download it with KeepVid.  

Sorry!! Fell asleep... Yeah, I see that a lot around here too. Just as you say, "The land of the Free" but many push it to be "The land of conformity"... I see so many spew about how Muslims or other foreigners come here and don't change their ways to be "American" .... So everything the constitution stands for is meaningless? I also get a lot of... 'where are you from?"... I say, "Here".. they say "no, I mean originally".... Well, my mother's side was Lenape Indian, My dad's side came here in 1880, so..... I'm still from here.. I wonder when these people can get passed this idea that Muslims aren't white and aren't born here. Maybe it is overcompensation..... It's the media that screws things up... and people willingly eat it up... Less than 10% of us Muslims are actually Arab, but it's the #1 thought in people's minds. Even our pest control guy came in and complained about a car he was driving behind, and Indians who come here and don't learn to drive properly. And I'm thinking.. maybe they WERE born here.. and just simply are bad drivers like half the other people out here.... I had a thought recently, how many hundreds of years did it take for african americans to be recognized as born-free in this country before people would stop automatically assuming they were a runaway slave... I'm white.. blonde haired blue eyed.. but the day I became Muslim and started covering, was the same day I had all my "privileges" stripped away. We all know "racism" but I didn't know racism until I was on the other side. So, yes, shame on us Americans. but the good still outweigh the bad. There are far more welcoming and good Americans than there are bad, ignorant, racist ones...