I will admit that this post, and other comments of a similar nature elsewhere, aggravate me.
Because while I understand wariness of US Customs - let's remember, I went through having my fiancee ripped out of my arms, slapped in a jail cell, and shipped back to the UK only to nearly kill himself with grief and depression over the next 6 months until we could finally get him here properly - the angst I'm hearing from white people over how worried they are about current entrance visa procetures really smacks of a kind of co-opting of oppression that actually belongs to people of color. And I don't like it.
I also admit that I get angry in part because a lover promised to come and visit me (with no prompting from me) and then started backpedaling, and one of the excuses he used was not wanting to be fingerprinted etc. at the border. I'd have gladly given up fingerprints, blood samples, hair samples, and a body cavity search if need be in order to be with him again. Which is not the same as agreeing with the policy.
This comment will probably make me wildly unpopular.
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Date: 2005-01-27 10:34 pm (UTC)Because while I understand wariness of US Customs - let's remember, I went through having my fiancee ripped out of my arms, slapped in a jail cell, and shipped back to the UK only to nearly kill himself with grief and depression over the next 6 months until we could finally get him here properly - the angst I'm hearing from white people over how worried they are about current entrance visa procetures really smacks of a kind of co-opting of oppression that actually belongs to people of color. And I don't like it.
I also admit that I get angry in part because a lover promised to come and visit me (with no prompting from me) and then started backpedaling, and one of the excuses he used was not wanting to be fingerprinted etc. at the border. I'd have gladly given up fingerprints, blood samples, hair samples, and a body cavity search if need be in order to be with him again. Which is not the same as agreeing with the policy.
This comment will probably make me wildly unpopular.