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Words with the Older and Wiser

January 21, 2009 By Marta Darby 3 Comments

Kikita here.

I didn’t watch the inauguration yesterday. I was in bed with a migraine.
My abuela, on the other hand, watched the whole thing.
So this morning she started to tell me all about it. All about the
people cheering, and the beautiful speeches, and how the word “change”
was in every other sentence . . . and how it reminded her so much of
when fidel first came to Havana that it was scary.

She was telling me how there are “Obama burgers” and chicken nuggets being sold for
44 cents because he is the 44th president . . . among other things.
And how there were posters of fidel welcoming him to the city and how she had one up in her house too.

Change

She told me how the people of Chicago were up early and out and
cheering in the snow and freezing cold. Then she told me how fidel had
gone to pay his respects to La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre and they
had lined up to watch. And that they didn’t move even when the rain
started to pour. She said it was so ironic because there he had been at
church and then it turns out he was a communist, and “communism is the
enemy of the church.”

She ended by saying that she’s praying for the president and hoping that we aren’t getting fooled again.

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  1. Kristen Benson says

    January 21, 2009 at 11:37 am

    Such a woman of wisdom!

    Reply
  2. Nathan says

    January 21, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    “We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” ~ Nikita KrushchevPretty scary quote, who knows, I honestly don’t think Obama has enough power to do something like that, if he does my Dad is like, “Nos vamos pa’ Mexico rapido y de Mexico y despues pa’ España”

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  3. Rhonda says

    January 22, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    A big Amen to that! Your abuela is right.

    Reply

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