This is spot on, fully accurate writing, and yet, will it - or similar efforts - have any effect?
Often, the most vociferously anti-immigrant folks are the 2nd generation: “I’ve got mine, forget anyone else.”
There’s also the ties to folks who stayed behind; and perhaps some guilt? My father left Cuba in 1933 when the dictator Batista took over; the woman who was the housekeeper for his father, Luisa, came to stay with our family in 1959 when Castro took over, and Luisa’s son, Santiago, later became one of the most pro-American anti immigrant folks imaginable.
We see this with folks from India, Peru, Poland, Sierra Leone, Vietnam, etc etc.
But I don’t know; if someone besides Trump (or Biden) ends up in the White House, maybe a new tone will be set here and there may be some learning possible?
Or maybe David Bentley Hart will be the leader and we’ll hear not only of universal salvation but universal love and human unity!
This is spot on, fully accurate writing, and yet, will it - or similar efforts - have any effect?
Often, the most vociferously anti-immigrant folks are the 2nd generation: “I’ve got mine, forget anyone else.”
There’s also the ties to folks who stayed behind; and perhaps some guilt? My father left Cuba in 1933 when the dictator Batista took over; the woman who was the housekeeper for his father, Luisa, came to stay with our family in 1959 when Castro took over, and Luisa’s son, Santiago, later became one of the most pro-American anti immigrant folks imaginable.
We see this with folks from India, Peru, Poland, Sierra Leone, Vietnam, etc etc.
But I don’t know; if someone besides Trump (or Biden) ends up in the White House, maybe a new tone will be set here and there may be some learning possible?
Or maybe David Bentley Hart will be the leader and we’ll hear not only of universal salvation but universal love and human unity!