American Federale
A friend asked me to drive him to the Social Security office in Van Nuys today. He has a back injury and suffers too much pain to stand or drive himself to the office.
He sat down while I stood in line. A racially mixed crowd sat across the room, while my friend sat alone on the other side. He placed his leg on an empty chair as his doctor suggested, careful not to offend those across the room.
My friend is white. After a few minutes, the Latino security guard approached and asked him to put his feet on the floor. We explained his injury the guard shrugged his shoulders and left.
After a few minutes, he returned.
“I need to explain you something,†he said with an accent. “The other people think that because he is white he can put his feet on the chair.â€
This would not have happened 30 years ago. But after Democrats made Los Angeles a sanctuary to illegal immigrants and after LA’s public school system graduated millions of uneducated half-wits, I was now tasked with explaining in grammar school English why someone’s bigotry was not my problem.
But as I glanced around the room at the Spanish language signs and brown faces, I accepted the futility of challenging this American Federale who relinquished his common sense to the dark-skinned bigotry that permeated this American government office.
Maybe I should have bribed him.
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Clark Baker is a senior contributor* to CaliforniaConservative.org. He is an author, a filmaker, a father and a retired LAPD officer. And he’s currently running for a seat on the California Assembly.
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June 2nd, 2006 at 12:06 am
Everyone with a worn out SSN card should go to the local SSN office and get a new one. Just for the experience. I live nowhere near where LA’s trillion man march happened, and it was absolutely shocking how much of a majority the non-English speaking were. Just freaking wow.
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:46 am
I had quite the experience when I had to take my ex-wife to the DMV office here in Houston when her purse was stolen. We waited in the long line at the DMV, where no one spoke english, only to be told we couldnt get a license without a SS card. So we went to the SS office, where no one spoke english, and were told we couldnt get a SS card without a Texas State ID - from the DMV. We went back to the DMV, waited in line AGAIN to get a Tx state ID. Then back to the SS office, in line AGAIN, finally got a SS card. Then back to the DMV for a license. It was an all day experience. As we were leaving and I was about to blow a gasket, it dawned on me. If we had gone down to the flea market and bought a fake SS card we could have avoided this whole mess. Government offices - the model for inefficiency!