Just wondering

December 11, 2004 By pia

Why do people say “Happy Chanakauh to all our Jewish friends”?

I’ve never heard anybody say “Merry Christmas to all my Christian friends.”

I understand that people are doing this in the spirit of the season and inclusion, and that’s nice, but…

It reminds me that I live in a Christian country and with the man-in-the-white-house practically pimping for Jesus, I don’t need anymore reminders.

I can’t walk in my own neighborhood or anywhere in my city because the streets are mobbed with people shopping or looking at the sights.

At this particular time in our country’s history we need to be all inclusive all the time. So

Happy Holidays to all

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

I'm a Long Island girl, and proud of it now.
Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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