Photo: the Lady Liberty posted by Rihanna, Mandy Moore, Jessica Alba, and others after The Ban. From this website via The Daily Mail.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Just not after January 28th, 2017, I guess.
This nation was founded by those escaping religious persecution. Such persecution happens somewhere in the world, every day, and always has. But never before has it happened here.
We are the only nation on Earth that, by our very nature, is a consistently changing population. The population of most countries is predominantly an unchanging group of said peoples. The majority of the population of France is French; in Denmark, the Dutch. But in America, we're everyone, from everywhere. That is the very essence and nature of this country. We are Everyone, from Everywhere.
Let's not change that now. Let's not turn our backs on those who need us now. They're the next Us.
Germany tossed out, and closed its borders, against a certain peoples. That's not what we do. Let's not toss out Muslims, the vast majority of whom are not violent people. Let's not toss out Mexicans and then put up a wall against them.
The Muslim Ban today. The Mexican Wall tomorrow. What's next? When will it end? Is this the start of an American cleansing?
Let's not start this. Let's not do this. This is not who we are. That, is un-American. Literally.
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Steve, you know the other day - inauguration day - I was thinking that the day we first met was the day that Obama was inaugurated for his first term. I remember us all in the Worcester Writer's Group discussing what an historic day it was. Here was are 8 years later...
ReplyDeleteRob, isn't it incredible? Eight years. Where has it gone? Now we have history happening of a different sort...But we'll get through it, somehow. Glad to hear from you. I need to drive up there and we'll toast to the times.
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