For a lot of us, this wasn’t about having an ego bruised, it was more about our kids.
Here’s something that happened at school the other day. 5th graders…..
So my kid and her friends were hanging out. One of the friends, a boy, decides to be funny, and makes a joke…
He says “How can you tell Donald Trump was here?”
He points to a retainer wall and says “here’s a wall”….
Now, I know he was just joking around, and probably making fun of Trump more than anything else, so all the kids laugh (even my own kid)….But there was a poor latino classmate that was with the group and she was just mortified, and started to cry. They boy felt bad because he really didn’t mean to hurt anyone, he was just joking around about it. My own kid didn’t understand why her friend reacted that way, and so I explained it to her: some latinos (even though they have citizenship here, and have family members that serve in Camp Pendelton) feel unwelcome in this country. It would be no different that someone looks at you and says, send all the Chinese back to China, to which my daughter says…”but, I was born here….”…to which I say…exactly….. Anyway, the boy didn’t really mean anything and talked to the girl and it was all fine afterwards…And no, no parent were involved in this, as they appeared to work things out themselves, luckily because the boy is(was) a friend….(more on that later).
Trump, might not really build a wall, or ship bus loads of migrant workers home. But the damage is already done. I don’t think the latino girl wants to be friends with the boy anymore too….And so to some extent, a wall has already been built, which I think is a little sad.
