Bordering on Bigotry 0
Tony Norman points out how ignorance feeds bigotry, using the example of the resentment of refugees along the southern border of the United States.
I do think he failed to give enough emphasis to bigotry in all this, but he only gets so many inches for his column. If these were little white kids who spoke English, there would be no fuss. A “whites only” sign has never been far from America’s welcome mat.
Here’s a bit; do read the rest.
It helps that the line between people and territories is always blurred when there’?s thievery going on. It makes the denial many generations later that much more reasonable. Most Americans don‘?t realize that Texas, Arizona, Nevada and California were once part of a greater Mexico, before those lands were annexed by war, trickery and genocide.
