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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts) Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:38 PM Mar 2014

I am setting here in the Library and am next to a young man from Egypt!

He is with a person helping him with math, he is trying to get his GED and get ready for the Citizenship Test. He is under 18 and is working at getting his feet here in America. He has no one; he talks of losing his family.

He is going full throttle for the American Dream. He is doing lawn work to help get his Dream started. He has a long road to hoe, but he is trying to find his way. He seems to have help in with this endeavor, and he will need it.

Hearing him talk to the lady helping him brings a thrill to my heart. People are still out there living the first three rights of the United States of America: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!

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I am setting here in the Library and am next to a young man from Egypt! (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 OP

Sometimes, I think too many of us lack perspective closeupready Mar 2014 #1

Tell him we don't like or want any Muslim foreigners in this country! quinnox Mar 2014 #2

I work with so many people like him as a Literacy Volunteer tutor... CTyankee Mar 2014 #3

New immigrants, especially the ones who have been through hell, Warpy Mar 2014 #4

Being under 18, alone, and not yet a citisen... Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 #5

I hope you set him straight and told him the truth: the American Dream no longer exists, this Common Sense Party Mar 2014 #6

Can't say that. Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 #7

DU has to set you straight, then, too. Common Sense Party Mar 2014 #8

It is members here that have been helping me. Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2014 #9

Good, I'm glad the right ones have been speaking to you. Common Sense Party Mar 2014 #10

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

1. Sometimes, I think too many of us lack perspective

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:45 PM

Mar 2014

which helping people like this guy brings. Lots of people, even those born American, can not read or write. Would love to volunteer to help such people, but not sure how to do that.

quinnox

(20,600 posts)

2. Tell him we don't like or want any Muslim foreigners in this country!

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:48 PM

Mar 2014

I'm kidding.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

3. I work with so many people like him as a Literacy Volunteer tutor...

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:49 PM

Mar 2014

they have insights and wisdom I would never have had before I met them. I am indebted to my students...

Warpy

(111,305 posts)

4. New immigrants, especially the ones who have been through hell,

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:50 PM

Mar 2014

are especially motivated to work themselves as much as possible to get what they want. I'm blown away by what some of them have achieved.

I hope this kid has all the success in the world. He's certainly paid his dues.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)

5. Being under 18, alone, and not yet a citisen...

Reply to Warpy (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:56 PM

Mar 2014

He has so much to overcome! Yet he is out there doing it! It just... WOW!

Common Sense Party

(14,139 posts)

6. I hope you set him straight and told him the truth: the American Dream no longer exists, this

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 06:19 PM

Mar 2014

country is headed for imminent collapse, he will experience nothing but crushing racism and bigotry, and that corporations will suck out his can-do spirit, chew him up and leave him for dead.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)

7. Can't say that.

Reply to Common Sense Party (Reply #6)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 06:20 PM

Mar 2014

Because I am chasing it to. And so far so good.

Common Sense Party

(14,139 posts)

8. DU has to set you straight, then, too.

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 06:22 PM

Mar 2014

Someone will be along shortly to explain to you the "facts of life."

As for me, I say, "keep chasing that dream."

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)

9. It is members here that have been helping me.

Reply to Common Sense Party (Reply #8)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 06:23 PM

Mar 2014

Common Sense Party

(14,139 posts)

10. Good, I'm glad the right ones have been speaking to you.

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 06:29 PM

Mar 2014

I can't tell you how many comments and threads I've read that basically convey nothing but the defeatist attitude I jokingly espoused above.

We live in a wonderful country and we can all do our part to make it even better.

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