I have never been so offended in my life

So a few months ago I added a few random people on Facebook that I found on a Castleville forum (I was going through a flash-based-game addiction). Among these new friends was a woman named Kirsten, who lives somewhere in the South (naturally).

A few days ago she posted a status saying something along the lines of, "When I first said I hated Obama everyone thought I was racist. It's funny how now when I say I hate Obama, everyone else does, too." Then one of her other middle aged white woman friends commented and they started having a conversation about Obama, and they were being pretty racist, albeit unintentionally. They were basically saying that he only supports the Hispanics and Blacks and how it is unfair that he supports immigration. (And I should note, these women only think Mexicans are immigrants)

I was pretty mad about it but I chalked it up to ignorance and let it go.

Then this morning she shared a poster on Facebook that said something along the lines of:
"What we expect in 2012:
-Obama: GONE
-Immigration: GONE
-Benefits for non-citizens: GONE
-Language: ENGLISH ONLY"
(There was probably more but I can't remember them all)

I was extremely offended by this. I started to feel really angry and I decided to unfriend her, while thinking evil thoughts about her in my head. After I unfriended her I went to run some errands, and I thought I would forget about the stupid poster. But as the minutes went by, I got angrier and I felt like a dark cloud was hanging above my head.

When I'm angry about something, I tend to recite fake letters in my head of what I would've said to the person who made me angry. Usually I would be dramatic in writing someone an actual letter about why they angered me, but it seemed appropriate this time. I realized that I would not feel at ease with my life until I educated this incredibly ignorant woman.

When I got home I went straight to the computer to give this woman a piece of my mind, but I COULDN'T FIND HER. I looked for her for probably 20 minutes and it's like she disappeared off the face of the earth. Then I realized that her page was probably still in my history from this morning, so I found her through there. Unfortunately, her page is extremely private and considering I unfriended her, I couldn't contact her in any way without re-adding her (That's not gonna happen).

I accepted my fate. I had no choice but to forget about this entire situation. Unfortunately, I couldn't do that. It's now 9:33 PM and I'm still thinking about it. So obviously, I've got to let it out somehow.

So here's me replying to this woman on a blog she's probably never going to come across:

I am an immigrant. I came here from the Dominican Republic when I was 1 and a half years old. Yeah, that's right Kirsten, NOT Mexico. I've lived here basically my whole life; I know nothing else. I consider myself American, citizenship or not. My mom brought me here, to a country she knew NOTHING about, knowing she could never fully learn the language, knowing she would never feel 100% comfortable in, so that I could have better opportunities. I'm proud to admit that I got the highest combined SAT score in my school, and have gotten accepted to 5 colleges already and it's not even February. I know what you're thinking, Kirsten: "A smart immigrant??? Impossible!"

So yes, I think I've made my mother proud. I've accomplished what she came here for. And you know what I'm going to do with all these opportunities I have? I'm going to become a public school teacher.

A public school teacher in a screwed-up-beyond-belief public school system? A public school teacher who is going to get paid a quarter of what teachers should be paid? Yes, so that I can teach children not to be as narrow-minded and discriminatory as you.

Speaking of opportunities, someone who is bilingual is more likely to get a job than someone who only speaks English. You know why? Because America is DIVERSE. People from all over the world come here because they know that it's okay to be who you are in America.

Oh wait, apparently not, because Kirsten over here thinks America should only be accepting of Whites and exclude everyone else. The real irony is that America was founded on immigration. Kirsten's ancestors were most likely from Europe somewhere, so is she suggesting that they should have stayed there?

Without immigrants from other countries, you probably wouldn't have fireworks that you ironically use on the Fourth of July. You wouldn't have peanut butter that you use on the now-very-American peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You probably wouldn't have Chinese food restaurants, Italian food restaurants, etc. which I'm pretty sure you have eaten sometime in your super American life.

Here are some facts:

-U.S. natives gain an estimated $37 billion a year from immigrants’ participation in the U.S. economy, according to the President’s Council of Economic Advisors.
-One in every four doctors in the U.S. is foreign born, as well as one in three computer software engineers and more than 42 percent of medical scientists.
-Latin American immigrants in South Florida have helped to make the area a leader in attracting foreign direct investment, particularly international banking.
-In the Chicago metropolitan area alone, undocumented immigrants spend $2.89 billion on goods and services, creating an additional 31,908 jobs in the local economy.

Oh I'm sorry Kirsten, do you want us all to go back to where we came from? Your precious country would lose jobs, doctors, businesspeople, and billions of dollars each year. I recommend that you stop being a racist discriminatory bitch and go back to school for something other than "criminal justice" EIGHT years after you graduated high school.

My Problem With The Oh-So-Popular Baby Name Nevaeh

A few years ago, the name Nevaeh barely existed. To this day, I don't know a single person above the age of 4 who is named Nevaeh. Then, out of nowhere, this name became one of the most popular and unoriginal names ever.

And it's never classy, respectable people who name their child this, I've noticed. One of my first encounters with the name "Nevaeh" was on 16 & Pregnant, so that already tells you a lot.

You know a name is bad when its redeeming quality is being able to say, "It's heaven spelled backwards."

It's like the parent wants people to look at them with admiration and say, "Wow that's extremely clever! I wish I was clever enough to come up with something like that! A religious term SPELLED BACKWARDS? call an ambulance, I think I'm going to pass out from all the cleverness I've been subjected to!"

I just don't get it. Why backwards? Why couldn't you just name your child Heaven? You just HAD to spell it backwards?

And what's with the pronounciation? Most people who name their child Nevaeh pronounce it "Ne-VAH-Y-uh". This doesn't make any sense. If anything, "Nevaeh" is pronounced "Ne-VAY-eh", which sounds equally as dumb.

In short, this name is not cute, and it's sure as hell not clever. It's tacky and unoriginal.