{"id":564,"date":"2019-06-16T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2019-06-16T20:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:32:39","slug":"milton-and-the-blind-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Milton and the Blind Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Virginia's enlightened progressive Governor Dr. Northam's medical school yearbook photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Part 1, Milton<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We first knew Milton when he was perhaps 5 or 6 years\nold.  He was a fairly regular attendee\nat our charity children\u2019s program (breakfast, story time, playtime, lunch, arts\nand crafts, sports, games, snack, finish up by around 4 pm) near a small\nvillage in rural Honduras.  To be honest\nhe wasn\u2019t the brightest of kids, but he was very cute as he sat on the swing\nand said, \u201cReid, calame (Reid, swing me).\u201d \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would open in the morning, often with 20-30 kids, and by\nthe afternoon 40 to 50 wasn\u2019t unusual. \nThey largely had one thing in common in regards to the following: pretty\nmuch none of the parents (mothers) had any idea where their kids were.  There is no tradition of, \u201cHey mom, I\u2019m\nheading off to the guarderia, be back around 4:30,\u201d but rather the kids go off\nto do whatever they do and all is well if they end up back home by dark.  By our \u201cwe are right in the latest\nincarnation of whatever we do in the US at the moment\u201d standard this might\nsound negligent, but it\u2019s more similar to the way my generation was raised than\nnot, plus our project had a pretty good reputation.  For the most part the mothers in the village sincerely care about\ntheir children, fathers typically less so, considering so many of them are\nabsent from their children\u2019s lives, which is pertinent to Milton.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Briefly, the last full session of the kids\u2019 program was in\n2011, for a variety of reasons we did not leave the US in 2012, and beginning\nin 2013 I (now with my wife staying at home) began spending about two months a\nyear in the village, not doing a program for kids per se but more young adult\nand adult oriented, especially teaching English, carpentry, and sewing.  Not surprisingly on each trip down there I\ncatch up on the latest, especially asking about how the kids we had gotten to\nknow quite well in past years are doing. \nThis past March (2019) upon my arrival I inquired as to Milton\u2019s status\nand learned he had recently gone to los Estados Unidos illegally, which was\nunexpected.  In learning the details I\nwas told his father had taken him.  I\nmentioned that to the best of my knowledge his father was never part of his\nlife, and this was confirmed, i.e. Milton simply became a pasaporte for his\nhitherto absent father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are funny in America in regards to children, at least the\nleft is. In any social policy, or political debate, invoking \u201cthe children\u201d is\nsupposed to stifle the other side and assure their acquiescence (which\nunfortunately has often proven to be true, at least in pre-Trump times).  Though the left gleefully ends the lives of\nchildren by the boatload under the guise of \u201cwomen\u2019s rights,\u201d they seem to drip\nwith compassion for non-aborted children as long as it advances their\nnarrative.   This has very much filtered\ndown to the villages in Honduras in the form of, \u201cif you show up at the border\nwith a kid you will get in.\u201d This explains Milton\u2019s father\u2019s newly discovered\nlove for his dear son.  It also explains\nwhy 13 year-old Julia\u2019s aunt was planning on returning to the village and drag\nher with her to the border (\u201cremember Julia, I\u2019m your mother!\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hear a good deal about child\/human trafficking these days\nand what I\u2019m describing is at the lower end: certainly the parents aren\u2019t\nknowingly giving up their children to be sex slaves, and not even selling them\nper se. There is simply an implicit understanding that \u201cwhen you get into the\nUS using my son or daughter as your passport, I will expect to be spending time\nat the Western Union office to receive remittances from you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I could fill pages talking about immigration, I\nmerely want to end this section with a few thoughts. First, our progressive\nDemocrat policy, which is essentially in effect Trump or no Trump, turns\nchildren into commodities, and indeed makes them susceptible to full-blown\nexploitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, our policy ignores the most basic and humane (though\nmost difficult) solution, which is to improve the situation in the countries of\nmass emigration.  This should not mean\neveryone has to have the American middle-class standard of SUVs, big screen\nTVs, streaming video, smart phones, wine coolers, and air conditioning, but\nthere are basic modern comforts that, if more universally available, would\ncertainly improve living standard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, a common aspect to the immigration debate is the idea of assimilation, and there seems to be a reluctance to embrace this ideal culturally and linguistically, at least when compared to the widely held narrative pertaining to prior immigrants.\u00a0 The concept of assimilation simply doesn\u2019t exist in the minds of the current wave from Latin America: there are no tired, huddled masses yearning to breath free.\u00a0 They are not refugees with legitimate asylum claims planning to assimilate, but rather have seen plenty of Hollywood movies with all the glitter and materialism and say to themselves, \u201cI want that.\u201d\u00a0 And you can\u2019t really blame them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part 2, The Blind Girl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In modern progressive Western culture the most odious\ncreature is the white male Christian conservative, even worse if they are from the\nSouth, and even worse if they are credentialed as a Baptist pastor- the horror!\nI will call him Leonard, and yes, he is all of these things.  Around 15 years ago his fictitious (I am a\nnon-believer) God called him to Honduras to help children, and eventually he,\nalong with his Christian Mexican- American wife (I forgot to mention he is also\na dreaded heterosexual), established an orphanage.  It wasn\u2019t your typical orphanage, however, with cottages and\nhired caregivers, but rather the kids were their kids, and they lived with the\nkids.  They peaked at perhaps 20-some\nchildren, lost a few for a variety of reasons, and now have about 15.  Needless to say, these kids were from the\nworst situations of neglect, abuse, and abandonment imaginable, for the most\npart have been with them since infancy, and they are \u201cchildren of color.\u201d More\non this shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 13 years ago a baby girl was born, named Xiomara who\nwas obviously blind, and there was some concern she had a \u201csyndrome\u201d that would\nmake her mentally retarded, deaf, or what have you.  During the time the baby was a neonate an American physician\n(OB\/Gyn, who traveled on a somewhat tortured road that led her to Honduras,\nthen back to the US) happened to see this baby and declared it would be better\noff if she were simply left to die. \nThis did not happen, and shortly she was taken in by Leonard.  She grew and thrived and a couple of years\nago she was adopted by, yes, a despicable Christian, conservative heterosexual\nAmerican couple from, Lord help us, Texas. \nI\u2019ve known Xiomara since she was a baby and had the chance to see her\nthis past March (the adoptive parents bring her back to Honduras to visit her\nsiblings, i.e. the kids she grew up with until her adoption), and she was\neverything wonderful in a child- happy, vibrant, engaging, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to long ago the Democrat Governor of Virginia became embroiled in some\ncontroversy, especially in terms of a black face\/KKK medical school yearbook\nphoto.  Though this has faded away\n(together with a sexual assault accusation against the Democrat Lt. Gov. it was\nconceivable a Republican could have ascended to the VA executive office, so the\ninitial progressive outrage had to be quelled), there was a lesser-reported\ncontroversy that reminded me of Xiomara. \nThe Governor, who graduated medical school and is a soft-spoken\nprogressive extremist, was prompted to muse about a bill to end any\nrestrictions on abortion, to include allowing the abortion of baby while the mother\nwas in natural active labor.  In the\nevent the child survived the abortion and continued unwanted by the mother he\nsuggested \u201ccomfort care,\u201d in other words putting a blanket over the infant and\nallowing it to die from dehydration or starvation. He added, \u201cAnd it's done\nin cases where there may be severe deformities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My primary career was as a medical provider, Physician Assistant (PA), and I worked or associated with many physicians over the years.\u00a0 I can say some of the finest people I\u2019ve known were physicians, many were of average integrity, and too many were disingenuous reprobates, the kind of people like VA Governor Dr. Northam who couch barbarism- starving and dehydrating babies to death- in feel-good terms such as \u201ccomfort care.\u201d\u00a0 Needless to say, under Dr. Northam\u2019s professional and august guidance, Xiomara would have died an agonizing death.\u00a0 It\u2019s ironic to note that it would be less cruel to simply use a pipe or hammer and smash the baby\u2019s skull, but with all the blood, bone fragments, and brain tissue it would be less sophisticated and less quaint, and wouldn\u2019t qualify for the soothing term \u201ccomfort care.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The children under the care of Leonard and his wife, their<\/em> children (the oldest are now 15) are a true joy to know.\u00a0 They are kids and have all the normal concerns and problems of kids certainly but are pretty well adjusted, enthusiastic, and are also truly fluent in both Spanish and English- and it\u2019s quite a bit of fun to watch them switch back and forth with ease as the situation requires.\u00a0 Less than two years ago Leonard (known as Papa to the kids), was diagnosed with an adult form of muscular dystrophy and can no longer walk or stand, and is losing the use of his arms.\u00a0 As much as the left finds solace and satisfaction in ridiculing Christians, Leonard endures and even thrives because of his Lord and Savior and because he believes in something greater than himself.\u00a0 I doubt very much that those who would call him a racist bigot simply because he\u2019s a Christian could bear riding in his wheelchair: they wouldn\u2019t sacrifice materialistic comfort for a moment to care for \u201cchildren of color,\u201d no matter how much they claim to love them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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