Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Appreciate Privilege

I really wish all of these people who complain about how terrible America is would appreciate how  [probably] hundreds of millions of people from all over the world would LOVE to live in America if they only could. Many of them, by the way, are black skinned. It is the freest, richest and most opportunity filled country on the planet.

It is the ignorance of this reality, the denial of "privilege" [i.e. the privilege to live in such a country] and the gross ingratitude, that really get to me. Being a כפוי טובה - an ingrate, is like the WORST middah on the planet. Simply deplorable and reprehensible. If you have complaints and want to fix things that is legitimate - but not before you appreciate all the positive and your DEBT of gratitude to the founding fathers and everyone since who built up this country. 

[I personally would LOVE and be honored to live in the USA but being a Torah Jew, I elect to have the much greater zchus of living in Eretz Hakodesh.]