As rite of passage, each nationality reaching our shores was prejudiced against by the immigrants who came before, yet each shared in our history Pearl Harbor, Cuban Missile Crisis, 9/11, Katrina, Boston bombing, but since the Reagan administration, Conservatives like Koch brothers, BP and Jim DeMint's Heritage Foundation have been allowed to turn us into sitcom characters with mind numbing truth twisting TV ads -- until we glaze over like holiday turkeys.
We remember November 22, 1963 as the day President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated, but ignore June 11, 1963, the day he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the 88th Congress.
Can we not now insist the 113th or 114th Congress pass an Immigration Reform bill as a moral human rights issue, rather than their vacation political football?
Let's turn our back on Boehner hypocrisy and treasonous one term president anti-American Mitch McConnell rhetoric, and step up for families forced into hiding and women forced to endure the trauma of rape in silence.
Let us free ourselves from imprisoning people guilty only of their skin color, and resuscitate our Ellis Island promise.
Let us salute the patriotism of a US Marine Corp Captain Derick Herrera, rather than preserving the 19th century prejudice of Conservative Mo Brooks.
Let us be courageous enough to share the Home of the Brave, rather than cheer a House of Representatives that divides us.
Let us give thanks to Native Americans giving us our first Thanksgiving, rather than deny races racing to contribute to our Land of the Free melting pot.
Let our Free Will keep Lady Liberty's torch alive, rather than branding ourselves, the great white hope.
Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government are charged with being the humane and equitable voice protecting the Republic, especially perhaps, from extremists abusing democracy by victimizing the vanquished.
We keep our humanity safe by saving each other, or following Cain, we live the murderous consequences of Conservatism.
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