Yes, I got it. There has always been so much prejudice in this country, as was and still is the case elsewhere in the world. I am so sorry for this total lack of compassion for those of us (most of us) who were immigrants here. Imagine how much the indigenous peoples, the First Nations’ peoples, who were living here for many thousands of years feel at being invaded and decimated by these quarrelsome invaders. I have a bumper sticker that I cherish, which says, “All people are created equal members of ONE HUMAN FAMILY.” It is from Key West, FLA, and you can get as many bumper stickers as you want from them. Google “One Human Family, Key West,” and that should get you there.
I think the difference we are talking about here is that German-Americans, and Italian-Americans, and, later Irish-Americans were vilified, and ridiculed, and targeted for centuries, here! Not to mention Blacks, Asians, Natives, Hispanics, Muslims and all others. Stupid Norwegian jokes, Swedish, Jewish, Mexican, French, Polish, Slavic, East Indian, and on and on, even for pete’s sake, Canadians!.. But not so many were actually imprisoned, for years, and stripped of their history, rights, property and livelihoods during those early to mid 20th Century years, and now.
We seemed, in the early 20th C, to want to concentrate our ire and virulence on those who somehow “took away” some crazy early settler’s “God-given-rights,” which they really have never had any rights to, to begin with. That happened to be (in addition to the earlier African slaves) Asians, first the Chinese, later the Japanese, later, the Hmong, and later, Somalians.
It is so sad that we are here, revisiting this, over and over, and over again. After 250 + years in this country alone.
My rant is over. I’m moving on to the Inauguration now… Day after tomorrow!! YAY!