The 'Girl From the Bronx' Grew Up in the Suburbs

[TLK Valentine]

No, we'd only be afraid of her if she was from the Bronx as she claimed- she herself said that Trump, being from Queens, doesn't have the skills to deal with someone from where she wasn't actually raised herself.

You're only afraid of people from the Bronx?

I don't blame you -- it's a tough neighborhood.

 

[TLK Valentine]

No fear here. Credit to her for winning.

The right has always respected the "win at all costs," mentality -- to find someone who managed to do it without selling out must be a novelty.

 

[AirPo]

No fear here. Credit to her for winning.

The OP reeks of fear like a non alpha dog rolling over and exposing it's belly.

 

[HereIStand]

The right has always respected the "win at all costs," mentality -- to find someone who managed to do it without selling out must be a novelty.

The same mentality is present on both sides. Neither Trump or Bernie sold out. They didn't have many big donors and didn't misrepresent themselves.

 

[LoAmmi]

I was born in Baltimore, lived a few years in Baltimore, then my parents moved about 30 minutes away. I tell people I'm from Baltimore. Am I a liar?

 

[Elliewaves]

The Bronx does have suburbs........some of them very upper middle class, tree lined streets.

It looks like she did do some growing up there until the age of 5, then her parents worked their butts off to get them into a better neighborhood. The house is small and modest , no mansion.

I honestly don't see why this is a problem. I guess you could say the truth is twisted a little to show her in a better light, but the fact still remains that she did indeed come from a working class family and they worked for everything they had. She didn't come from privilege.

 

[Inkfingers]

You must be terrified, OP. A brown woman who is a (gasp) SOCIALIST!

Good.
Ringo

Or maybe you are scared and so want to suggest others are (to attack them)...

 

[LoAmmi]

Or maybe you are scared and so want to suggest others are (to attack them)...

Scared of what?

 

[AirPo]

Or maybe you are scared and so want to suggest others are (to attack them)...

Argument um "I know you are but what m I?"

 

[HereIStand]

I was born in Baltimore, lived a few years in Baltimore, then my parents moved about 30 minutes away. I tell people I'm from Baltimore. Am I a liar?

No. You are from greater Baltimore. The Bronx has a more working class image than does Baltimore. Ocasio-Cortez's online bio gives the impression that her family never left the Bronx. It seems like a misleading effort to bolster her working class identity.

 

[wing2000]

No. You are from greater Baltimore. The Bronx has a more working class image than does Baltimore. Ocasio-Cortez's online bio gives the impression that her family never left the Bronx. It seems like a misleading effort to bolster her working class identity.

Does it? Or does the fact that her mother cleaned toilets disqualify her from working class?

https://ocasio2018.com/about

Alexandria was born in the Bronx to two working-class parents. Her father was a small business owner from the South Bronx. Her mother was born in Puerto Rico, growing up around a large family near Arecibo. She grew up in a working-class household where her mother cleaned homes and everyone pitched in on the family business.

From an early age, Alexandria grew up with a deep understanding of income inequality. The state of Bronx public schools in the late 80s and early 90s sent her parents on a search for a solution. She ended up attending public school 40 minutes north in Yorktown, and much of her life was defined by the 40 minute commute between school and her family in the Bronx. It was clear to her, even then, that the zip code a child was born in determined much of their destiny. The 40 minute drive represented a vastly different quality of available schooling, economic opportunity, and health outcomes.

Alexandria eventually went on to study at Boston University, where she earned degrees in Economics and International Relations. While there, she worked for the late Sen. Kennedy handling foreign affairs and immigration casework for constituent families.

 

[Hank77]

I was born in Baltimore, lived a few years in Baltimore, then my parents moved about 30 minutes away. I tell people I'm from Baltimore. Am I a liar?

I don't have any problem with her saying that she is from the Bronx.
This is what appears to be a lie.....
"much of her life was defined by the 40 min. commute between school and her family in the Bronx."

 

[Hank77]

Does it?

Yes, it does. When was she ever commuting 40 mins. between school in Yorktown and her family in the Bronx?

 

[LoAmmi]

No. You are from greater Baltimore. The Bronx has a more working class image than does Baltimore also. Ocasio-Cortez's online bio gives the impression that her family never left the Bronx. It seems like a misleading effort to bolster her working class identity.

Old Baltimore was probably on par with the Bronx in terms of working class. New Baltimore is more on par with a beautiful park surrounded by places one should never go.

 

[wing2000]

Yes, it does. When was she ever commuting 40 mins. between school in Yorktown and her family in the Bronx?

I don't get your point.

 

[HereIStand]

Old Baltimore was probably on par with the Bronx in terms of working class. New Baltimore is more on par with a beautiful park surrounded by places one should never go.

I see. I have visited Baltimore. I went more to the tourist sites, Camden Yards and the aquarium. There are some rough parts, as I understand it. A friend was driving around Baltimore looking lost until someone yelled, "The Poe house is that way!."

 

[LoAmmi]

I see. I have visited Baltimore. I went more to the tourist sites, Camden Yards and the aquarium. There are some rough parts, as I understand it. A friend was driving around Baltimore looking lost until someone yelled, "The Poe house is that way!."

Yep, you hit the "beautiful park" places. I don't recommend going many other places right now.

 

[LoAmmi]

I see. I have visited Baltimore. I went more to the tourist sites, Camden Yards and the aquarium. There are some rough parts, as I understand it. A friend was driving around Baltimore looking lost until someone yelled, "The Poe house is that way!."

Adding:

My grandparents and my father were there when it was heavily working class. Lots of union jobs around that offered high pay for jobs. My grandfather and my father were steamfitters. A lot of other relatives worked at Bethlehem Steel and some of the other factories that were around the area.

Then the jobs started to disappear as the places closed down or moved elsewhere. The city went from a really beautiful, working-class city to poverty and despair. My family moved out of the city into the suburbs because that's where you could find jobs. Well, doing that and working in Washington DC. My father spent his last years as a steamfitter doing jobs in DC and very rarely going into Baltimore.

 

[HereIStand]

Adding:

My grandparents and my father were there when it was heavily working class. Lots of union jobs around that offered high pay for jobs. My grandfather and my father were steamfitters. A lot of other relatives worked at Bethlehem Steel and some of the other factories that were around the area.

Then the jobs started to disappear as the places closed down or moved elsewhere. The city went from a really beautiful, working-class city to poverty and despair. My family moved out of the city into the suburbs because that's where you could find jobs. Well, doing that and working in Washington DC. My father spent his last years as a steamfitter doing jobs in DC and very rarely going into Baltimore.

My family is similar. Many on Dad and Mom's side worked in steel or auto factories in the Chicago area. There were many jobs available in the area in the mid 1950s.

Dad was a foreman at Ford. I actually worked there a couple of years in production. The money was great. It was a bit of a rough and tumble environment and a good incentive to finish college.

 

[Elliewaves]

When was she ever commuting 40 mins. between school in Yorktown and her family in the Bronx?


eh, Well if her father owned a family business in the Bronx and presumably worked there everyday; she might have been going there after school to work or to stay with him or the mom until they came home.