If corporations didn’t have voice mail that told the caller to press “2” for “Español” or bilingual signs in their places of business, there’d be a stronger incentive for those who work here “illegally” to learn English.
Yet, the Brown people receive the wrath of Americans, not the corporations who keep the influx in tact.
For almost four hundred years, Western Europeans inhabiting The FUSA who eventually became Americans considered people of African decent 3/5 of a human being. They claimed this with no scientific evidence supporting it. They made this claim unabashedly and without hesitation. Some of the people who made this claim were otherwise intelligent human beings. In fact, this claim was law. The Constitution of The United States had to be amended to give African Americans the other 2/5 of humanity that they already possessed.
What happened on September 11, 2001 is yet another example of how easily Americans can acquire hate and intolerance towards people whose skin is darker than the average Caucasian.
The belief is that dark skinned Middle Easterners carried out the events of 9/11 and, consequently, there was overwhelming support for the invasion of a country in the Middle East which had nothing to do with 9/11. The people of Iraq look like the people blamed for what happened on 9/11 and that fact justified the bombing, destruction and killing that was carried out against the people of Iraq. Whether or not any of the so called hijackers were Iraqi and whether or not there was any evidence that Iraq was involved in 9/11, dark skin was all the justification needed to kill Iraqis. It’s a sad fact and it’s made sadder still by Americans' denial of that fact.
I don’t know how to fix illegal immigration, but what I do know is that the fix does not start with the people who are entering The FUSA illegally. The fix is much more dependent upon what’s waiting for those people in The FUSA once they arrive. Ultimately, mostly White, wealthy conservatives control that part of the fix.
It wouldn’t be nearly as easy to point the finger at the bastions of wealth and greed who encourage illegal immigration and Spanish as a first language as it is to hate a person because he or she looks or speaks differently.
It’s as if it’s OK to offer employment and benefits, meager as they may be, to Brown people. It’s as if those who desperately need what they’re offered should have enough “self discipline” to turn away from the offer, choosing to make absolutely no effort at all to improve what is a miserable existence in their native countries.
The saddest part is that it should be obvious to the most casual of observers who controls and perpetuates this game called “illegal immigration”, but the propensity of White Americans to hate those who are not White Americans blinds those White Americans to the obvious.
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