beside the golden door.” The New York Harbor is, along with Ellis Island, what was first seen by many of our ancestors as they traveled to this promised land. The tired, poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free remember the welcoming figure who stood gloriously in the harbor, our Statue of Liberty. The Emma Lazarus poem is at its base, The New Colossus.
Ours is a nation of immigrants, and now the perfectionist a***es who want an Aryan “Christian” authoritarian nation want only “heritage Americans” to be here.
As a politician running for office in a democracy, it’s tough to sell Stephen Miller’s version of America and get elected. I’ve read that Mr. Miller wants only one hundred million of us 330 million Americans to actually belong and remain here. Thanks to Donald Trump, a supine Republican Congress and backwardly (and monetarily) motivated Supreme Court he may get his wish, if we don’t stop him.
Thanks to the Big Awful Bill, Trump’s now got his secret Gestapo, disapearring thousands without Constitutional protections. He’s deporting us, starving us (SNAP), cutting off our access to health care (Medicaid, Medicare) and vaccines that have prevented nasty diseases for decades. They’re polluting our air and water, and not providing aid (FEMA) in natural disasters that are compounded by climate change. Oops, the scary weather thingie that doesn’t exist.
Still, getting rid of 200 million of us without us knowing about it is a challenge. Am I a Heritage American? No-one knows. Like “woke,” it’s in the eye of the eye of the beholder. Let’s see, my mother had a Green Card for fifty years. Parents Brit/Irish and French-Canadian. Father born in US from German and Swiss parents. Sounds suspect, especially as one side was Catholic, the other Lutheran. I’m a mutt, for sure, but always an American.
Let’s beat this, together. The only true native Americans are, well, Native Americans. The rest of us came from elsewhere. My grandfather escaped Hitler’s brownshirts in the 1920’s. Let’s stop these Nazis. Dee
Cooking with Dee 