Now here is a part of History I never learned about.
The Columbus Calumny
""The inconvenient truth is that Italians and Sicilians were once victims of white supremacy in this country: Until the 20th century, Italians and Sicilians were legally classified as “colored” under U.S. immigration law (as were Armenians and many other ethnic groups), were subject to quotas, and were not allowed to become naturalized citizens. This gave rise to “race courts” in which immigrants presented anthropological, cultural and historical evidence that their ethnic group was white, even though they were not Anglo-Saxon. Individual judges weighed this evidence and determined whether the plaintiff was white, and therefore could become a naturalized citizen. Different judges came to different conclusions, keeping the immigration status of many ethnic groups in limbo for decades. Very few people know about the race courts; it’s not taught in school.""
PS...THIS DOESN'T MAKE AMERICA RACIST!
""The inconvenient truth is that Italians and Sicilians were once victims of white supremacy in this country: Until the 20th century, Italians and Sicilians were legally classified as “colored” under U.S. immigration law (as were Armenians and many other ethnic groups), were subject to quotas, and were not allowed to become naturalized citizens. This gave rise to “race courts” in which immigrants presented anthropological, cultural and historical evidence that their ethnic group was white, even though they were not Anglo-Saxon. Individual judges weighed this evidence and determined whether the plaintiff was white, and therefore could become a naturalized citizen. Different judges came to different conclusions, keeping the immigration status of many ethnic groups in limbo for decades. Very few people know about the race courts; it’s not taught in school.""
PS...THIS DOESN'T MAKE AMERICA RACIST!
We judge by behavior, mannerisms, culture...not something so insignificant as the color of one's skin....unless one is a hard core materialist, psychopathic narcissist with no conscience or mutuality ...like many demo's.
If there was such a thing as a different race within the human species...it would be THEM!
The fact is all of us have the instinctual predisposition to be racist. Racism exists in all people across the world. It is not just white on black. In Africa, it is tribal or simply how dark one is.
We all must identify our racist tendencies (no matter of skin color, tribe, religion). We must teach our children to look for commonality with those around them (the humanity). We must personally combat this instinctual urge to create, segregate, and identify by tribe. Worse than addiction, this can only be accomplished one day at a time.
There's nothing quite like situational
contrast to wake up a human conscience.
If anyone really believes he is worse off today because his forebears were brought to America as slaves, I'd offer him a one-way trip to any country in Africa that will take him.
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But, to your point...I bet not...that kind of discrimination is acceptable.
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