Being a self-confessed student of history is both a blessing and a curse. Yes, I know our past. What we fought for; and how we got there. Our will to overcome at all odds. BUT I learned about our dark pasts too.
While I remember our fights, internally and externally; I remember too that we did many dark things that still are an embarrassment to our country years after.
We won our Independence from Great Britain. We survived a Civil War. We won WWI and II. We won the vote for women, blacks, and 18 yr olds. We started the Automotive revolution; the industrial revolution. We put a man on the moon. American inventors changed the world. Tesla, Ford, Bell, Edison, Einstein to name just a few. We have had great leaders rise at the time of adversity to help lead us forward against the darkness. Washington, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, King, Parks, Kennedy, Obama are some names that will live on centuries from now in honor.
What we can't forget is the evil that caused them to rise above, to begin with. The lessons we should have learned and apparently didn't. That our greatest victories, leaders, battles were a result of fears, bad policies, and decisions, hate and prejudice, junk science.
Great Britain and the Crown owned America. They sent their worst citizens to America. It was the last chance sentence. If you couldn't follow their rules on Law, religion, and policy; you were exiled to the "New world" to die. They dumped their prisons into boats and sent them to America. They did the same with Australia, Canada, and a few others over the centuries. Some remained part of Great Britain, others declared there Independence. America, Taiwan, India are a few.
Sadly, were there again. We are forgetting we were once Immigrants too. That Tesla, Einstien, and so many of our greatest minds even up to today were once immigrants, slaves or prisoners. Electricity, Space travel, the cell phone, and computers were immigrant inspired and grown. Peanut Butter, the radiator, and air conditioning were invented by Black Americans.
Yet we still want to discriminate and be prejudice based on color, origin or religion. We were led to believe that we could make Indians "white" if we took their children from them and "beat" the "savage out of them. So we did, and it failed miserably. After hundreds of years of trying to wipe the "savages" off the face of the earth; through starvation, displacement, torture and outright murder, this was their "intelligent" solution.
Separate the children from their parents, cut their hair, make them wear white man's clothes, teach them our language and customs, force our religion on them. Beat this into them.
During WWII we turned our backs on the Jewish people. We refused to let them stay. Anne Frank was one Jewish girl who tried to come to America and was turned back. She died horribly because we said, "we don't want them here!" It's not our problem! We imprisoned Japanese Americans in glorified POW camps in the desert. We stole their property, possessions, land because the "looked different" We were being told not to trust Americans who "looked different". Yet we dropped the bombs on two Japanese cities, killing every man, woman, child, pet. Only cockroaches and rats survived. Yes, it ended the Japanese part of WWII. But Oppenheimer declared he "had become death" and never forgave himself for creating the Atomic Bomb.
Eugenics, McCarthy, and now Trumpism are a result of fear and hate of the unknown.
Now we are separating children and babies from immigrants who seek asylum in America. Many less than a year old and almost immediately after being taken into custody. The Parents remain in custody in Texas and San Diego while their babies are sent to Chicago, many never seen or heard from again. Many forcibly removed. Most never being told where their babies are going or IF they will ever see them again. In Bolivia, they may know where cities are and where things are sent, but in America, they don't have a clue. Saying "your kids are in Chicago" is like saying "they're in Iran". They don't have a clue where that is.
They are taken upon arrival, sent thousands of miles away and not allowed to talk or hear from them for weeks or months. Many are babies who can't even say "mama" or "papa" yet. Kelly calls it a deterrent. I call it inhumane and evil. How much trauma has been caused by these forced separations? Are we going back to beating our religion into children? Forcing them to ignore their heritage and country of origin?
Are we going to "send them back" like Anne Frank, to die alone and in fear? When did America and the American dream of our kids succeeding become a "whites only" dream? When did we become so unChristian and uncaring?
WWJD? How different our Bible would be if Jesus family had fled to America. His parents would be sent to determent camps and he would have been sent to Chicago, never to be heard or seen from again. He would have never become our "Savior". Christians should be outraged and be speaking out. REAL Americans should be outraged and be rising up. How many Einsteins and Tesla are we destroying before they ever even get a chance to achieve greatness. How many healers, peacemaker, heroes?
We are supposed to be America damn it! The land of the free and home of the brave. Not home of the cowards, traitors, and evil. It has to stop. Call your Senators and Representatives and scream that this is not our America! This isn't what we fought and died for. That we won't allow this to continue. It can’t. It mustn't. Were better than this. We have to be. We must be. Call now and every day till they stop this abominable practice and policy. This is America; not Iran or Turkey or North Korea! Act like Americans!
That's it. Call and let's get this ugly wart on America's ass removed. Let's do the right thing! Remember to stock up and put a little gold away because things are going to get worse. Be ready and prepared. Have a great Weekend and let er rip.