回国札记:机场奇遇记-2
这次回国,开车去 JFK 机场,把车存在机场附近的一个收费停车场。货比三家,这个停车场是 JFK 附近,收费较便宜的停车场之一。
不过,所谓一分钱一分货。曾经在 JFK 附近用过一家最便宜的停车场,到后才发现,这个停车场坐落在脏乱差治安欠佳的黑人区。
停车场全部由当地的美国黑人经营,不仅工作人员的态度极差,疯狂索要高额小费,而且摆渡车恨不得一个多小时才发一次,差点儿耽误了行程。
这次长了心眼儿,订之前先看了停车场的坐标与网上的 review。嗯,四星半,还行吧。
开车到达之后才发现,艾玛,这家停车场,又是黑人经营的。
不过,停车场的位置确实不错。交通便利,离机场几步之遥。
去北京,坐摆渡车去机场时,车里坐得满满当当。俺净顾着与反战的犹太人聊天儿了,没能与开车的黑人司机大叔搭话。
回美国,坐摆渡车回停车场时,车里就俺一个。与黑人司机大叔一聊才知道,这家经营停车场的黑人,全部都是来自海地的移民。
聊着聊着,就聊到了美国大选。众所周知,最近,川普这个撒谎不眨眼满嘴跑火车的家伙,把海地移民推上了风头浪尖。。。。
------ Donald Trump has refused to admit he falsely accused Haitian immigrants of eating peoples’ pets as he doubled down on his statements during a Univision town hall Wednesday with undecided Latino voters.
The former president was asked by a Spanish-speaking audience member whether he actually believed what he said about migrants in Springfield, Ohio. Trump responded by saying that he was “just saying what was reported.”
“This was just reported. I was just saying what was reported, that’s been reported, and eating other things, too, that they’re not supposed to be,” Trump responded.
“But this is... all I do is report. I have not... I was there, I’m going to be there, and we’re going to take a look, and I’ll give you a full report when I do, but that’s been in the newspapers and reported pretty broadly,” he added.
During his first and only debate with Kamala Harris last month, Trump amplified a racist rumor that Springfield immigrants are abducting neighbors’ pets and eating them, adding to his stock of false and inflated statements and anti-immigrant rhetoric that has dominated his campaigns.
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” he said at the time.
Pressed by debate moderators, he said he saw people on television who claimed that “their dog was eaten by the people that went there.”
Law enforcement and city officials in Springfield have firmly rejected the claims, which have appeared to fuel death threats as well as hoax bomb threats that temporarily closed schools and city buildings and forced hospitals into lockdown.
The source of the claim appears to be a Facebook post amplified by right-wing and conspiracy theory-driven social media accounts. Posts from Elon Musk and Trump’s running mate JD Vance were viewed millions of times.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican who supports Trump, wrote an op-ed for The New York Times defending Springfield’s immigrants, who are living there legally, and giving the city an economic boost amid a population decline and a depressed business outlook as the city’s labor force dried up, he said.
“As a supporter of former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance, I am saddened by how they and others continue to repeat claims that lack evidence and disparage the legal migrants living in Springfield,” DeWine wrote. “This rhetoric hurts the city and its people, and it hurts those who have spent their lives there.”------
可想而知,来自海地的黑人司机大叔,对撒谎不眨眼的川普,会有啥看法(黑大叔的language rated R,所以,此处省略500字)。
总而言之言而总之,这个停车场交通位置很好,而且来自海地的黑人大叔们,都非常憨厚朴实,接送也很及时快捷,随叫随到。下次回国,俺还会继续使用这个来自海地的黑人移民经营的停车场。
不过,严重提醒大家,千万不要在停车场上厕所。
厕所没手纸,抽水马桶也坏了,不能冲水,厕所里的令人晕眩的臊臭味道,立马唤起了俺童年的记忆。