@Blickers,
Blickers wrote:
Foofie:
What country or countries were your grandparents born in? I'm guessing not the USA. The whole country is made up of immigrants, most of them in the last 3 generations.
Coming here in the latter half of the 19th century, they were literally the personal property of the Czar of Russia. Not Russians. That was reserved for Christian Russians, or Muslim Russians. Jews were just the property of the Czar, as depicted in Fiddler On the Roof, where the Jews of a small village were ordered by the Czar's decree to go elsewhere.
But you brought up a non-sequitor, since there was open immigration until 1924. So my grandparents came as legal immigrants. And, to prevent ever going back to Russia, they immediately signed up for night school, so they can become citizens ASAP. Let's not talk about how many Jews from Russia contributed to this country, whether it was entrepreneurially, or in the wars since the late 19th century. Regardless, I believe, you are adding apples to oranges, so to speak. Are you next going to tell me that the New York Irish contributed no more than Mexican immigrant Mexicans?
The early bird catches the worm! The constitution was not written for the sleepy bird, or the proverbial grasshopper in the fable the Ant and the Grasshopper. (I say that the illegal immigration seemed to snowball when there was no more Universal Draft.)
And, I admit that when my grandparents came, all the proverbial heavy lifting was done already by generations of "early birds" (aka, Protestants) that had many dead from disease, starvation, or just the hard work in an undeveloped country. So, I do not pretend I deserve squat, compared to those early arrivals. The early bird catches the worm, and deserves to catch it, ethically speaking.
Now let's all say a prayer for those WASP)s that made America great in a prior century... Amen!
