the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Steve James wrote:Actually, I don't remember you ever being banned; but, maybe that's just company policy Then again, it could be age, too. Anyway, I really missed it.

klonk wrote:

This editorial cartoon, published in the New York Herald in 1918, depicts the anti-immgrant sentiment that arose during World War I. Source: Library of Congress

You know Lady Liberty’s entreaty to give her “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”? Emma Lazarus penned that sonnet when the United States began implementing strict laws to keep the huddled masses out. A year earlier, in 1882, Congress had passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first major immigration law to restrict entry of a specific ethnic group, after complaints that the Chinese were polluting American culture and appropriating American jobs.

What about the European immigrants welcomed in decades prior, when they fled poverty, persecution or potato famine?

Well, in the mid-19th century, an entire national political party — the Know Nothings — was predicated on fears that morally and racially inferior German and Irish Catholic immigrants were threatening the livelihoods and liberties of native-born Protestants.

Even earlier, some of our most venerated Founding Fathers — people who had abundant evidence of the additive properties of ethnic diversity and benefits of infusing the economy with fresh blood — exhibited frighteningly nativist tendencies. Benjamin Franklin denounced the scourge of “swarthy” German immigrants who refused to speak English, for example.

Taste of Death wrote:chud, Steve James can see through the "I don't hate all black guys, just Obama" meme.

chud wrote:

Taste of Death wrote:chud, Steve James can see through the "I don't hate all black guys, just Obama" meme.

Here's a suggestion: stop speaking for other people, and start worrying about yourself.