In these days of newly woke people I think it’s important for me to remind you that my disdain for July 4th isn’t new. Years ago I shared my story of my interactions with an immigrant who was so in love with her new country that she thought she had the right to criticize my lack

of reverence for the anniversary of the birth of the country that enslaved my ancestors at that birth and continued that enslavement for more than 100 years after it. One difference between then and now. Then I was patient with her bc I understand that bc we were friends she...

naturally wanted me to care about her favorite holiday (the woman made cupcakes and cakes celebrating it and brought them to work each day the week leading up to it!). Today I think of her as a selfish b*tch who should have understood MY feelings. I would NOT be patient with her.

The weird thing is that she hated her original country. She was a political prisoner there. She never told me the whole story, but it had something to do with her ex-husband’s activities. She came to the U.S. on asylum. Of course, she could have been lying about it https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏾‍♀️" title="Achselzuckende Frau (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckende Frau (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)">...

I’m an easy mark for a particular type of grift. It’s the grift where someone claims a sad, tragic past in a foreign land and doesn’t give details. If I know anything about the place, I assume that they’re on the “good” side. I’m retrospect, how do I know she wasn’t forced to...

leave bc her husband was a powerful figure in the bad regime that was toppled?https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht"> Just bc she was granted political asylum here doesn’t mean that she was running from the “bad” side. In some countries you can’t tell the difference between the two. And she refused to give ANY...

details. She would tear up and say she couldn’t talk about it. It’s a good thing I was broke at the time, or I just might have become the victim of a con woman. I later learned that she truly was a liar. The woman wrote a memoir, and I learned she was a liar after reading the...

very first page on Amazon https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤦🏾‍♀️" title="Frau schlägt sich die Hand vors Gesicht (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Frau schlägt sich die Hand vors Gesicht (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)">. She was also a terrible writer, which, strangely to people outside my profession, is common in people who do what I do for a living https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏾‍♀️" title="Achselzuckende Frau (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckende Frau (durchschnittlich dunkler Hautton)">.

I should have called this thread Random Thoughts!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😆" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen">