Posted on 07/19/2019 6:57:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Many Americans probably have no idea of the long history of the go back to your country taunt and how it was used to denigrate ethnic minorities. If they did, they would better understand the visceral reaction to it.
To understand what is unfolding, one must understand the history of this awful saying. One must also understand that we, as ethnic minorities, consider ourselves to be co-equal citizens in this fantastic country we call America. In other words, there is no place to go back to. This is my countrythe one that I love.
When President Donald Trump said four members of Congress should go back to the places from which they came, he was wrong, and he shouldnt have said it.
His words conjured up unpleasant memories for so many black people like me and immigrants alike who have been targets of the go back to your country taunt throughout their lives. His words hurt people beyond the congresswomen he intended to condemn.
I wont offer an excuse for his ill-worded tweets, but simply some perspective as someone who has met with the president and whose organization works with his administration daily.
The president loves this country, believes in the goodness of this country, and defends this country when others attack it. His tweets and follow-on comments were unacceptable, but lets also be honest enough to recognize the destructive and divisive nature of the rhetoric of the members of Congress in question.
I can understand why Americans are tired of the growing chorus of anti-American sentiment from The Squad. We all can certainly have honest disagreements with how the country is being runthats one of the wonderful features of the American systembut to regularly trash it, its people, and those who protect it is another thing entirely.
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It helps to not misunderstand people if you quote the entire thing he said, and not just a few words or short phrase from it.
He lost me from the beginning.
Freakin boo-hoo!!! If you don’t love America GET THE HELL OUT!! EFFIN period!!!!
Garbage. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting it.
I’ll tell you what, Ms. Kay Coles James, I’m an American, [a Real American] and there is no way I could ever become a ‘victim’ [whatever you MEAN by that favorite term of the quisling lefties] of the four rancid,clearly odoriferous, pack of heavy left harpies who comprise the squawd. Got it? May they spread their putrefaction all through the left, the mainslime media, academe, Georgetown, Nantucket, the big apple - everywhere. We aren’t victims, Ms. Kay Coles James. The squawd and their ilk are riding in a very leaky boat. That faint roar they are hearing is Lava Falls, bigtime. Well, bye.
“We’re all victims”.
Too many ethnic minorities on the Left consider themselves the rightful heirs of this country, supplanting the present white majority. And if Whites do not accede to this, then they must be (wait for it) . . . racists. The answer for all of this is for "racial minorities" to stop thinking themselves as such, and assimilate into the majority population and culture. Such a person coming here is an immigrant; the others are invaders.
that saying, “America, love it or leave it” has been popular for many, many years.
America needs plenty-o-work.
Congress has been screwing off for the last 50 years...
All these supposedly conservative mouthpieces who conveniently leave off the rest of what he said, which was then come back and show us how you did it. A very important part of what he said.
“I dont think the president meant to tap into that pain, but he did.”
He didn’t tao into anything.
They made race the issue.
We don’t see their race.
We see their sick and crass putdown of America and it is constant and never ending.
They are a one note quartet.
I think the author is trying to be fair but, maybe a bit much.
These women are ignoramuses, who want to be somebody’s oneday and their only path, in their minds is to denigrate the Great Satan.
If it’s so awful, why does everyone want to come?
If it’s so awful, why are peoppe grateful when we show up, First, to any natural disaster, help them and leave without leaving a bill?
If it is so awful, how is it we have settled more refugees and asylum seekers than all the other countries combined?
Does that sound like a racist country to you?
Because I don’t know what color these people are but, pretty sure they don’t look like me and I could care less, I just know what than not caring at all would be.
Europe seems pretty happy not speaking German.
Did I mention we subsidize medical care and medicines for 3rd world countries? I didn’t? Well, now you know.
More people have access to fresh because of Americans. Many of those people live on the dark continet and yet we just show up to help. Racists, yuh know.
Gimme a break.
Women are further ahead in this country than others.
Gays? We really couldn’t care less if you are.
KcuF those Martians...
Ingrates...
Bingo, with these people, you do not need to fear stereotyping, just quote them and their holy book and you have your answers.
Because the sh_tholes they came from are sh_itholes.
In America, they have access to money, luxury, safety, and the freedom to do what they choose.
Most immigrants (I am talking legal immigrants here, not fence jumping Illegal Invader criminal leeches) do love America, and are grateful to be here.
Muslims are another category. Muslims throughout the world have demonstrated that once they arrive in a Western country, they destroy, rape, steal, commit arson, leech off public benefits, don't work, don't assimilate, and spit all over the Western nation that allowed them in.
Muslims are taught from the cradle to HATE. They hate Jews. They hate innocent animals. They hate non-Muslims. They hate Christians.
They hate America.
Americans are the victims of America-hating people living in America.
There, I fixed that.
Leiden you say? Guess you and I are kin then.
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This writer is so far off the actual point they will be lost for a year! They have no clue what the comment was even about!
My brother found the ships manifest for our ancestors. Edmund Lewes left from Ipswich, England in 1634 with his wife and two young children. Our ancestors children were 3 years and a 9 months old, the three year old had the same name as my brother today almost 400 years later.
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