10/14/2020
Boy, this home was stuck in a decades old timewarp ๐ก
I never really realized how European-styled my grandmother's place was when I grew up (not this house pictured).
There were so many touches, like embroidered pillows, doilies, cans of wax beans, knick-knacks, that were similar to what I saw in this house.
My grandmother came from Poland, my grandfather from Russia, they came to America to escape the socio-economic and political conditions in Eastern Europe at the time.
They were "white", "caucasian" and they never treated anybody as second-class citizens because THEY were often treated as second-class citizens as Jews.
I see all these white people running their mouths saying "get out of this country" when it comes to race relations and sexual identity. "If you don't like it, then leave"
If they only knew, felt, were born into a situation where they were the oppressed instead of "removed" from the systemic racism that people encounter.
There's no empathy in what seems large a large swath of American people anymore.
This country used to stand for "give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses." Where is that thinking?
Now, I'm not excusing any people who don't want to work and commit crimes and just take advantage...that's NOT what I'm about.
I'm about humanity. People with a ๐ nose, and ears ๐, and a heart โค๏ธ and two legs ๐, our minds, ๐ง and our personal parts. We're all the same, really.
As our country seems so divisive and fractured, I hope that in this election season...those who hold the ideals of what my grandmother did will make a larger statement than all of these "baseline" tendencies on both sides.
A bowl of chicken ๐ soup ๐ฒ, love for your grandson, and an ugly couch with plastic on it to keep it clean from dust ๐๐
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It's amazing what these memories can conjure up in our soul..