Today we're going to talk about something that has been happening in our community and is about to the zero tolerance we are seeing and how that is affecting our society or community life.
Zero tolerance has been an old problem, but now we see it with those immigrants living among us today.
One of my friends came to me the other day told me about one problem that he's having right now in his neighborhood:
He leaves in a community where everybody have dogs and one of his neighbors came to him telling him that his dog barks too much and that barking bothers her too much.
She told him to enter his dog early because every morning she heard the barking dog outside and that disturbed during the daytime. My friend agreed to bring his dog inside more so this lady could feel he is cooperative.
But recently the lady called him saying that the dog barks too much during the day and that he had to do something about it.
Now friends, imagine to live every day amidst non tolerant people and also can you imagine how difficult is to live in the neighborhood where everybody have dogs, where everybody had barking dogs and where the neighbors only have ears for your dog's bark and you are the only one there who is different than them? I bet you can.
We also can't imagine how difficult could be to be in that lady's dog's flesh we don't even know if she is a good owner of her own dog and we try to imagine that her dog also can be an abused dog by her. Since she complains about one single barking dog, her dog can't be a lucky dog. But anyway she just doesn't care how people evaluates her as a dog owner; because what she wants is to show how to harass people like my friend just because the color of his skin.
Now my friends we have one simple idea about how things are in neighborhoods today, where we have different people leaving in America, working in America, surviving in America.
My immigrant friend that I just mentioned in this the story is a normal guy. He works, but doesn't have benefits as normal American people have, neither he has a health insurance. He is very respectful as well as responsible but he has a bad neighbor, even when she looks like a good person.
As much as I know these immigrants came to the USA to work, and many of them are extremely good workers. They do the work that many Americans don't want to do; and in exchange they just ask for some respect.
I'm not saying that all of them are good people, but what I'm saying is that it would be nice to show some respect to people who embrace our ideals, our dreams and who also are contributing to make a better America.
"We should live and let others live"
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