Refugees

Refugee:a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. When did America turn into a scared nation? Most look at 9/11/2001 as the date, and we certainly have shown ourselves to be frightened little children since then, but there has always been a yellow streak when it comes to the USA.

We have always been afraid of the other: we have been anti-immigrant right after the landing of the Mayflower. For all of the “religious liberty” the founding of our country was built on, for a long period of time Catholics were barred from office, either de facto legally or because Catholics “all take their orders from Rome.” We interned Americans during World War II – yes, AMERICANS, because of the color of their skin. They lost their businesses and livelihoods because…hell, I don’t have a good explanation.

Edward R. Murrow, in his take down of Joseph McCarthy, said, “We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep into our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular.” I think that we are now hoped to be ruled by fearful men, and that we have become a country of fearful men. I certainly hope that cooler heads will prevail and we will start letting in these refugees. France is letting in refugees – the attacks were not done by refugees. Let’s be proud and brave in America, and not fearful.

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