Obama speaks about immigrations rich and complicated history and its ugly colonial and native squashing roots. Part of what America is about is stitching together folks from different backgrounds and different faiths and different ethnicities. Thats what makes us special and, look, lets face it, sometimes thats hard to do, but its worthwhile, its worth doing...Sometimes thats hard to do, but its worthwhile. (8m55s) He then nearly slipped into denigrating the Japanese himself by remarking that they dont have problems with certain folks being discriminated against because mostly everybody is Japanese. Sometimes we get attached to our particular tribe, or particular race, or particular religion, and then we start treating other folks differently. If you look at the history of immigration in this country, each successive wave there have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, Well I dont want those folks, even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans. (10m30s) youtu.be/WW_IBIWLPOo?t=9m50s bubblews/news/9561626-obama-says-only-people-who-can-object-to-immigration-in-us-are-native-americans #Obama #Immigration
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:08:40 +0000
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