- AN EDITED VERSION OF THIS POST IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN THE RECORD, A BERGEN COUNTY NEWSPAPER
It has been the principal catalyst of his candidacy and now his presidency: a loathing, an obsession, with those South of the border seeking refuge.
Why has his heartlessness and cruelty played so well? As we watch a caravan of aching souls on an incredible trek of over 1000 miles, it is manifest that they pose no danger and seek to do no harm.We speak with reverence for those in our own distant past who trekked long distances over forbidding terrain, those our home grown caravans, pursuing a possibility, their grit and relentless determination making them heroes. The stuff of legends. Go West young man.
And what of the estimated two and a half million of our most beleaguered, our "Okie" migration in the desperate hours of our Great Depression less than a hundred years past? Were they not entitled to seek escape from the pounding poverty and suffocating hopelessness?
And yet, somehow, we denigrate and debase the ones who now travel a different route with the same fervent hope of finding not a pot of gold, but merely a roof over their head and safe haven for their family, at journey's end.Mr. Trump, the thousands who now march step by endless step towards the dream of a better tomorrow should be considered an intended gift to this country. You are the real threat, you with your contemplated executive action and your call to arms.It is you, not those you seek to turn away, who constitutes a true existential crisis for America.
5 comments:
The Democratic Party needs an "Explainer in Chief", like yourself, who can illuminate the terrible ordeal that these refugees are experiencing south of our border. We have been brain-washed into using the word "migrant" or 'migration' rather than "refugee" to describe them. Like thousands of others in 1940, my father's trek out of Austria and across France to escape murder was not a "migration". It was life or death, and in his case, the death of his father (my grandfather) along the way. Although not genocide, today's refugees are experiencing murder, rape and intimidation south of our border. My father's "bright light" was being able to reach the British lines in France. The British and the Americans were his heroes. Where are the heroes today?--RE
Where are our heroes indeed
Beautiful
JC
well done.
AP
Excellent letter to the editor of the Record. Very proud of you for standing up for immigrants.
JB
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