Immigration vs Discrimination
Well, everybody else with a bone to pick or an axe to grind has sounded off about President Obama’s classroom lecture to America about immigration. I guess it is time for me to do the same.
His oratory of obfuscation may be summed- up in this quote. “Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law?”
Mr. Obama is talking out of both sides of his mouth. His words question the legitimacy of discrimination while his sentiment behind choosing those words reeks of racism and discrimination. What he apparently believes is that immigrants are only capable of picking fruit and making beds. That is a disgusting stereotype.
Imagine the outcry if I or any other person were to stand before the nation and say of the black population “Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who picked our cotton and sang our hymns never have a chance to get right with the law?” Anyone with such words would be scandalized as a racist of the worst ilk.
There are literally thousands and thousands of immigrants to America that have reached accomplishments of the highest degree, because they are here and not elsewhere. Over the decades we have welcomed the tired poor huddled masses to these shores. Many of them have engaged their energy, raised themselves from their poverty, and stood on the merits of individual accomplishment apart from the masses. They did so for a soulful sole reason.
They viewed the United States of America as a land of opportunity. Barack Obama does not have that vision of this country. Instead he sees this nation as a battleground where the only opportunity available is through a government that distributes the spoils of the war to special interests.
As a nation we have perpetuated and fed his and our addiction to government pandering. We have become so accustomed to being governed as a group we have opted out of governing ourselves as individuals. The difference between black cotton-pickers, most Hispanic fruit-pickers, and main street Americans is clear. The cotton-pickers did, and the fruit-pickers do still believe in the ideal that in The United States one can pick themselves up.
Sadly the elitist politicians in Washington, including Barack Obama, only believe in picking winners and losers in the manufactured fights they pick between themselves.
It is time that we as citizens return to the idea that this nation is a place of self-worth and self-achievement. It is time we stop picking our collective noses. It is time we stop making our beds with the dogs of divisiveness in Washington DC…because we have and otherwise will continue to wake up with fleas.
That Is The Way I See It.
William Way Jr.
