“Anti-immigrant sentiment is older than America itself.”
Posted Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 11:33 am
This from a recent NY Times article, “The Founding Immigrants” -
“As we celebrate another Fourth of July, this picture of American intolerance clashes sharply with tidy schoolbook images of the great melting pot. Why has the land of “all men are created equal” forged countless ghettoes and intricate networks of social exclusion? Why the signs reading “No Irish Need Apply”? And why has each new generation of immigrants had to face down a rich glossary of now unmentionable epithets?
Disdain for what is foreign is, sad to say, as American as apple pie, slavery and lynching.”
July 4th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
At least it’s not as publicly accepted anymore.
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