Tito: "This country has given me so much…"

Tito the Builder is cool.

He’s a nice change from the O-supporting digital brownshirts, too.

H/T

An attitude of gratitude instead of entitlement. A patriot’s love of country. An individual’s understanding of personal exceptionalism. A guy who truly embodies the transformative power of genuine hope; the sparkle from the wheel.

Some background on Tito Munez, the guy who came to America and said, “all I need is a chance.”

You go, Tito!

Related: Class Tells; Class Wars Do Not

I have a cousin who is a priest. He has worked in some absolute hellholes and he’s also rubbed elbows with the very privileged. He notes that it’s only the very rich who want to strip down churches into bare halls, or who want to serve Communion in wicker baskets because “that honors the poor.” The poor don’t really appreciate the wealthier folks deciding what “honors” them, he tells me. Condescension, for example, doesn’t do it.

My cousin says that truly poor folks he has ministered to are the ones who want beautiful churches, and they recoil at the idea of serving Communion – the banquet of the Lord – in baskets instead of something finer. The “something finer” used at mass is not the “insult to the poor” the rich believe – rather it’s a promise of hope, a promise that everyone is in the game, not just some, that opportunity is withheld from no one. It is a reason to work, to become educated, to pursue the thing for which one senses one has been born, which is never “simply to be a nothing.”