In the end was the founding of this once admired republic, now just a has-been, over-reaching wannabe empire, ever more than just a dream? It is what we called it, no---the American Dream? Contrasted to rising empires, China and India it is almost as if ours is a Napoleon Complex.
No doubt it was a delusional undertaking. Consider men openly and brazenly declaring that “all men are created equal” while holding in one blood stained hand the chains of those enslaved and in the other the musket of genocide used to unburden the natives of their land.
Then consider that Euro-Anglo-Israelis took the entire hemisphere. Some took the northern, others the central and still others the southern segments of it---but it was all the same people, Euro-Anglo-Israelis.
The philosophy based on the man-made dogma of organized religion was to preach God’s love and salvation through commitment to a specific brand of Judeo-Christian dogma to those held in slavery, facing the fiery end of a musket or being dispossessed of their continent.
Two-hundred-thirty five years later here we are with women still earning approximately 75 cents for every dollar a man earns, Blacks and Hispanics barely scraping by and more likely to go to prison than college and gays permitted few if any of the rights accorded by the equal protection clause of the organic instrument upon which the nation is based.
Was it ever really more than just a dream?
My sentiments are with young undocumented Americans. Yes, Americans. If you reside anywhere in this hemisphere---guess what---you are American. You may not be a documented citizen of this once great republic known as the United States but you are American.
These young undocumented Americans simply desire to take their place in the system they serve as so many generations of other Euro-Anglo-Israeli immigrants have done before them. To that end these young undocumented American students held a sit-in reminiscent of the 1960’s activists. For their trouble they were arrested for sitting outside the office of Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison office here in San Antonio, Bexar County, she denies she had anthing to do with that.
At the same time there are generous, benevolent individuals in our nation. The mean-spirited, hateful kind seem to outnumber them. Not all are the gosh awful ones (GOPers, John Bohner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor) we see on the evening news, hear on radio or read on the Internet. Then there are those who I suppose through the power of suggestion have been lead to believe are more and better than the “illegal aliens” they seem to loathe. (That’s back to preaching love while practicing hate)
The few civil liberties we still have are in large measure the work of dedicated, fearless egalitarian activists from among the Euro-Anglo-Israeli immigrants to this land. Those activists are in some way connected to proposed legislation known as the Dream Act presently on the verge of being presented for a vote.
Whether or not it will pass I do not know. I do know that listening to even the temperate, moderate voices on NPR (National Public Radio) I hear a great deal of vitriol, invective and outright condemnation of those termed “illegal aliens.”
To listen to these angry “Americans” “illegal aliens” are criminals who entered the country illegally and should not be allowed any path to citizenship.
Listening to these angry Americans rail, rant and rave against the Dream Act anyone without knowledge of their history might think these angry Americans had sprouted from the ground on this hemisphere just after the Big Bang. Certainly they would not have cause to understand that these angry Americans sprang instead from the vast migrating mass of humanity that has circumnavigated the entire planet for millennia. Only because straight lines and right angles are so Euro-Ango-Israeli are we even having this discussion. (Do we not see the issues Israel’s fences are creating there? Do we not recall the long cold war advanced for the purpose of bringing down the Berlin Wall?)
Like the “illegal aliens” they condemn these angry Americans once entered this land illegally as well. And may I add that the mere fact that “processes” are put in place for accepted means of immigrating doesn’t mean there aren’t work arounds that have always been and will likely always be in place.
Every day, those of means are allowed into this nation as is almost anyone who can pitch a 90 mile an hour fast ball.
Perhaps it has been no more than “just a dream within a dream….”
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
Hasta Siempre,
More:
Police respond to DREAM Act rally (arrest students and perhaps a dream)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/police_respond_to_dream_act_rally_111008674.html
Latino USA: American Dreamer: Sam’s Story
By James Kwak
Brad DeLong reminded me that the DREAM Act is being considered by Congress right now and has an outside chance of passage. If you are a Senator on the fence about this issue, or you work for one, you should listen to the last segment of this This American Life episode, starting about forty-six minutes in. It will break your heart.
Oh, and given that opposition has been basically along party lines: aren’t the people who would qualify for citizenship under the act natural Republican voters, anyway? Basically the act would reward people who pull themselves up by their bootstraps, without the benefit of federal aid. Or is that no longer what the Republican Party is about?
Status Affects Young Illegal Immigrants' Choices (tpr/totn/all things considered thur 16 dec 2010)
The U.S. has a system in place for becoming naturalized. It is not up to those who would like to circumvent this system to redefine it. Do you consider yourself a criminal?
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/16/132112116/status-affects-young-illegal-immigrants-choices
Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka , 15 student
Anastasio Hernandez, 32 father of five
Latino USA: American Dreamer: Sam’s Story
Royals? Royals? Royals, really? Royal what exactly? By virture of what?
UK says attack students made 'contact' with royals
They hit the car with sticks, fists and bottles and chanted "Off with their heads" before the vehicle pushed its way through the crowd and drove off.
Latino USA
Movement on DREAM Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Paco Ignacio Taibo II was born in Spain and moved to Mexico as a child. Today, he has made his name as one of Mexico’s most prolific writers, authoring everything from crime novels to historical accounts to biographies
http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-P-S/dp/0061965588/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290505605&sr=1-1
The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990
“However, James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen offer a more complex thesis. In their book, The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990,[5] they argue that Texas' execution rate reflects the Southern "cultural tradition of exclusion," and that "[s]uch exclusion was a basic element of the legacy of slavery."
Report Details US Letting In Nazis After WWII
A report chronicling the history of the Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit criticizes the government for knowingly allowing some Nazis to settle in the United States after World War II.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131317296
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Library of Congress/Religion
DREAM Act Portal
http://dreamact.info
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