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Murrieta, CA
I believe in justice for all.
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Y commented on the article |I think we need to learn these details in elementary school, because the way they teach us American history is so biased. In school, they portray most American figures as heroes for changing history as in the case of Lincoln, but the truth is revealed that he didn't really think of African-Americans as equals. Just because he signed the Emancipation Proclamation doesn't mean that he was truly doing it for equality. He never even joined any anti-slavery organizations.
But still, I do give him credit for signing it and freeing the slaves, though he wasn't really doing it for truly humanitarian reasons. We have to remember he was living in the racist 19th century, and I give him props for thinking ahead of his time. How he was able to sign this without committing political suicide is amazing. -
Y commented on the article |So, naturalized citizens are not Americans, even though they are U.S. citizens?
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Georee, please read this article I once read in my diversity class.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060602/news_lz1e2massey.html
Immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants contribute more to the economy than take from it. Read this, and you'll learn that undocumented immigrants are exploited, and living in fear. Most don't take advantage of welfare, and public funds. That is a myth that only spreads fear and hate.
Please tell me how I, as you have accused that "illegal immigrants cost this country a lot more money than the few taxes taken out of their checks", am costing this country. If anything, I think I have contributed more. I have contributed over a hundred hours of community service to the towns I have lived in, and trying to make positive change. How am I costing society?
Actually, if the DREAM Act doesn't pass, we would be hurting America even more. With the economy so bad right now, we can't afford that. Give me a chance to follow my dreams, pursue education, pay taxes I will gladly pay, and contribute to the economy. The government has already invested in me by giving me a k-12 education. It would be such a waste if we don't open more doors to more people after k-12. Please Let me use my education, because you already invested in me!
I am not looking for a way to get public funds, or free money. I don't care if I don't qualify for financial aid, or about grants but give me the chance to at least apply for a wider pool of scholarships that I would be able to apply for, if only I was born here. Give me a chance to take out my own student loans that I will pay back. Give me a chance to work so I can pay for my education. Give me a chance to give back to this country I call home. -
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I agree with some of the things A.A. Alvarez has said. Undocumented immigrants are the scape goats, and it's hard to turn their hate into love. But we must be an example and not step down to their level of name-calling, because that makes us as bitter as them. We can't be jealous, because really, we don't want anyone to be in the position of us undocumented immigrants, because we are dehumanized, and the bottom line is, no matter who you are, privileged or not, spoiled or not, dehumanization is morally wrong.
Maybe A.A. Alvarez is right. Both groups don't understand each other. We can't understand why they take their privileges for granted, just as they can't understand why we are fighting for basic human rights. They think everyone has basic human rights because they are rights, meaning everyone has them, no matter what. We know from experience that people are not always given the rights they are due. But they don't know that, and plus, they have the anti-immigrant sentiments clouding their minds.
I'm not trying to excuse any inhumane actions by the haters, because inhumanity is just inacceptable, but just that, maybe, they are the way they are because they are caught up in the whirpool of fear that dominates the media, the negative pictures they see, etc. We know better than that that we do not represent those false depictions of us, so let's prove it to them! And we are proving it to them by supporting the DREAM Act, and showing them that we are intelligent human-beings too. We need to show them that we are not what they picture us to be because what they know of us is only a stereotype, and stereotypes never define an individual. We can prove it to them. We already are proving it to them by personally striving to grow and learn from each other.
As for this video, this is very very appalling. How can anyone be so insensitive as to do what is inhumane? I don't know the answer to that. But I believe that this is not how the majority of Americans are. I don't have enough proof to back this statement up, but I believe most people are good and have a sense of what is right and wrong. There has to be more good than evil, or else the DREAM Act would not have made it in the top 10. Not only did undocumented immigrants vote for it, but U.S. citizens too.
There has to be more good than evil because there's a reason why social movements towards justice in the end, win. There has to be a reason why we move towards the progressive.
One more comment on the video, I got off-topic to what I meant to say in the last paragraph...but the insensitivity really is just heinous. How can someone say shut up to a kid and think that a stuffed animal will suffice? I can't even imagine what that stuffed animal will represent to that girl. Ironically, being given a stuffed animal is supposed to be comforting especially to a child. I can remember when I slept with many stuffed animals by my side because I was always a little scaredy cat as a kid. But to that little girl, it will always just be a memory of how comfort and security was taken away from her. Urgh, it's a horrible thougt. This sorts of things should never happen. And these types of things need to be in mainstream media! -
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