A Fairy tale A beautiful fairy appeared one day to a destitute refugee outside a
Maryland immigration office.
'Good man,' the fairy said, 'I've been sent here to grant you three wishes,
since you just arrived in the United States with your wife and three children.'
The man told the fairy. 'Well, where I come from we don't have good teeth,
so I want new teeth, maybe a lot of gold in them.'
The fairy looked at the man's almost toothless grin and -- PING !
he had a brand new shining set of gold teeth in his mouth!
'What else?' asked the fairy, 'two more to go.'
The refugee claimant now got bolder. 'I need a big house with a
three car garage in Annapolis on the water with eight bedrooms for
my family and the rest of my relatives who still live in my country.
I want to bring them all over here . . . and -- PING ! --
in the distance there could be seen a beautiful mansion with a three
car garage, a long driveway, a walkout patio with a BBQ in an upscale
neighborhood overlooking the bay.
'One more wish', said the fairy, waving her wand.
'Yes, one more wish. I want to be like an American with American
clothes instead of these torn clothes, and a baseball cap instead of
this turban. And I want to have white skin like Americans . . . and --
PING ! -- The man was transformed, wearing worn out jeans, a
Baltimore Orioles T-shirt and a baseball cap. He had his bad teeth
back and the mansion had disappeared from the horizon.
'What happened to my new teeth?' he wailed. 'Where is my new house?'
The fairy said 'Tough schit, Mac, Now that you are a White American,
you have to fend for yourself.'
And she disappeared.