utter hypocrisy

Coming from someone who has worked in restaurant kitchens, cleaning, and preschools,
I agree with this statement from Anthony Bourdain wholeheartedly.
Our president and the people he keeps inciting
is such a tool.

Bourdain's death has struck me deeply,
making me wonder how many people silently struggle with depression and mental illnesses
regardless of success, fame, or riches--
sending love your way as you battle the darkness.

"Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, look after our children. As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are ‘stealing American jobs.’ But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position—or even a job as prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply won’t do. In nearly 30 years of cooking professionally, just about every time I walked into a new kitchen, it was a Mexican guy who looked after me, had my back, showed me what was what, was there—and on the case—when the cooks more like me, with backgrounds like mine—ran away to go skiing or surfing—or simply flaked”

- Anthony Bourdain.