March 12, 2006
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A Texas Reader Says Democrats
are Nogoodniks
A Virginia Reader Is Angry at
Brownback
From: Deena Flinchum [e-mail
her]
We all recall that
Kansas
Senator Brownback, a member of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, was big on bringing a
multitude of Somali Bantu refugees to the US.
When government
officials were looking for a place to settle them, they
came up with Kansas. They must have thought, "Why
not? Wasn't
Senator Brownback a leading proponent of bringing
them here?"
But Brownback
quickly
put a stop to these plans: not a single one was to
be settled in
Kansas. They were "not right" for
Kansas according to the senator.
So they are right
for, oh, say,
Virginia?
Blacksburg, VA,
my hometown, has accepted several Somali Bantu
refugee families.
My next door
neighbor, a
kind and caring person and the mother of three young
children, became part of a committee to help them settle
in and to get the children enrolled in
school. One of her tasks was to take some of the
women shopping.
One day I ran into
her in the local grocery store where she was with a
Bantu woman with two very young children and a girl who
looked as if she might be in her early teens. She
introduced me to the woman, who
didn't speak English, so we both nodded and smiled.
Later that day when
my neighbor and I were in our front yards, I asked her
how she helps them shop when
language had to be a major problem.
She replied that X
spoke English quite well. X, she explained, was the
pregnant one.
I said that I had
thought that X was a young girl. She was wearing a
flowing robe and I couldn't tell she was pregnant. My
neighbor agreed that she was a young girl – 16-years-old
and pregnant with her second child.
Later I learned
that wife beating was a problem in the Bantu community
and that one mother had expressed dismay that her young
daughter might not be valued for marriage because she
couldn't undergo
female genital mutilation here in the US. Another
woman was unhappy because she had been separated from
her family.
She was a lesser
wife in a
polygamous marriage. Her husband and his first wife
were in another city.
A couple of years
ago Blacksburg was named one of the most tech savvy and
Internet connected places in the US, thanks largely to
Virginia Tech, our leading employer.
What are we
supposed to do to
integrate these families into this community? What
sort of life will X have here as the mother of two
children when she is younger than a Virginia Tech
freshman?
