An Excellent article this evening"CELLYBLUE" thoughtful, informative and Educational. My heart breaks for these Beautiful people,who don't deserve what trump and his goules have set apon them. Blessings to All and you Too 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊🌊🌊🙏!
I acknowledge but cannot "like" the important information that you impart to your readers.This country has a long history of abusing immigrant labourers, from before the birth of this country thru the enslavement of Africans, forced immigrants, to the indentured servants who were pitted against each other by the rich white land holders. That legacy endures and now as before, white workers are pitted against immigrant workers for the benefit of the ruling class.
Deb Vitkova: Europe and America both have for untold centuries been responsible for massive murders and division.
I am, for example, Belgian and American (my Francophone Mom was from Charleroi).
In Belgium they divide over language!
The country is secular, Post-Christian, by heritage Catholic. There is common history. In some years, the Parliament cannot form a Government for the language divisions.
Brussels somehow keeps the country together, because it lies in Flanders (Dutch speaking Flemish) but it right next to Francophone Wallonia, and is largely French speaking.
In a terrible time in the 19th c., one of Belgium's Kings, Leopold, launched a genocidal war against Congolese. I have no idea what the pretext was, but the outcome was genocidal war killing one-million good persons.
Little Belgium did that.
Belgium that suffered under the Kaiser and even worse under the Third Reich. Of THAT I could talk all day, because it is the stuff over which a little boy in the 1950s was reared on his Mom's lap.
Look at the genocidal treatment of First Nation peoples.
Look at the traditional blood libel ("Jews steal your kids and stage a mock Mass during which they EAT them).
That blood libel is transferred by neo-Nazis onto Haitians ("look at Springfield Ohio. The Haitians still your kittens and puppies and stage a Voodoo service during which they EAT them).
And these are beautiful, often quite cultured, good decent persons.
It is an agony to see neo-Nazi politicians enflame the bigoted with incendiary, flame-throwing race-baiting.
You and I owe a real debt to CellyBlue -- I do know this!
CellyBlue gives us well researched and compellingly written posts that awaken us to truth in today's American society.
CellyBlue's quality is ALWAYS top-rate, and I LOVE, just LOVE her writing.
I agree with you 100%. Humans have wonderful traits and evil traits. We can see this everywhere in the world. I pray there are more decent people than evil ones, yet the curse if dRump magats seem overwhelming at times. 😩🤬
We need to fight to keep our fragile democracy. sorry, I am rambling.
Thank you for your essay. It is to our everlasting shame that America exploits the labor of people of color, immigrants, and anyone else that can possibly be exploited. We need to heal from racism and build a better country for everyone. 💙🗳️🌊
An Excellent article this evening"CELLYBLUE" thoughtful, informative and Educational. My heart breaks for these Beautiful people,who don't deserve what trump and his goules have set apon them. Blessings to All and you Too 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊🌊🌊🙏!
As usual. CellyBlue is on top of things with a full comment.
I acknowledge but cannot "like" the important information that you impart to your readers.This country has a long history of abusing immigrant labourers, from before the birth of this country thru the enslavement of Africans, forced immigrants, to the indentured servants who were pitted against each other by the rich white land holders. That legacy endures and now as before, white workers are pitted against immigrant workers for the benefit of the ruling class.
I understand and agree
Hope you are feeling better.
Deb Vitkova: Europe and America both have for untold centuries been responsible for massive murders and division.
I am, for example, Belgian and American (my Francophone Mom was from Charleroi).
In Belgium they divide over language!
The country is secular, Post-Christian, by heritage Catholic. There is common history. In some years, the Parliament cannot form a Government for the language divisions.
Brussels somehow keeps the country together, because it lies in Flanders (Dutch speaking Flemish) but it right next to Francophone Wallonia, and is largely French speaking.
In a terrible time in the 19th c., one of Belgium's Kings, Leopold, launched a genocidal war against Congolese. I have no idea what the pretext was, but the outcome was genocidal war killing one-million good persons.
Little Belgium did that.
Belgium that suffered under the Kaiser and even worse under the Third Reich. Of THAT I could talk all day, because it is the stuff over which a little boy in the 1950s was reared on his Mom's lap.
Look at the genocidal treatment of First Nation peoples.
Look at the traditional blood libel ("Jews steal your kids and stage a mock Mass during which they EAT them).
That blood libel is transferred by neo-Nazis onto Haitians ("look at Springfield Ohio. The Haitians still your kittens and puppies and stage a Voodoo service during which they EAT them).
And these are beautiful, often quite cultured, good decent persons.
It is an agony to see neo-Nazi politicians enflame the bigoted with incendiary, flame-throwing race-baiting.
You and I owe a real debt to CellyBlue -- I do know this!
CellyBlue gives us well researched and compellingly written posts that awaken us to truth in today's American society.
CellyBlue's quality is ALWAYS top-rate, and I LOVE, just LOVE her writing.
I agree with you 100%. Humans have wonderful traits and evil traits. We can see this everywhere in the world. I pray there are more decent people than evil ones, yet the curse if dRump magats seem overwhelming at times. 😩🤬
We need to fight to keep our fragile democracy. sorry, I am rambling.
Thank you for your essay. It is to our everlasting shame that America exploits the labor of people of color, immigrants, and anyone else that can possibly be exploited. We need to heal from racism and build a better country for everyone. 💙🗳️🌊
Excellent article! I am so weary of loud, willful ignorance sucking the air out of the room. Will it ever go away?