[23231] in Hotline Meeting
Bad mouse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale R. Worley)
Sat Jul 9 17:28:36 1994
From: Dale R. Worley <drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 94 17:28:26 EDT
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
The mouse on w20-575-75 does not go "up" reliably.
Dale
Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
--
Part of the irony of this whole family values debate that the
Republicans introduced in August is that America is profoundly
*anti*-family. Our parents are the people who left the village --
whether it was Italy or Ireland or Mexico -- who left grandmother at
her window and said, "We will be back," but we didn't go back.
Americans are all these people who leave Cleveland, Ohio, and don't
see their relatives except maybe at Christmas. Americans are always
the ones who wonder, if you're 28 years old, why are you still living
at home? America was always formed *against* the idea of fatherhood,
against the inevitability of family: that I will become my own man,
that I will stand on my own two legs. Who you are -- your family
name, where you come from -- is nowhere near as important as what your
expectations are for your own life.
The notion that we represent family values in America is ludicrous.
Every country in the world knows that if your children go to American
you will lose them. Every mother in East LA knows that if her
children become too American, she will lose them, too -- that they
will end up like Thomas Jefferson on a skateboard.
-- Mexican-American commentator Richard Rodriguez
