Post: Tim Wise
Tim Wise See, Black folks know why they are here. Native peoples know why they're here and how they got here. But Asian folk know, particularly if they're Chinese American. They know they got here because their ancestors were brought over to work on the railroads by the railroad barons who didn't care. Thousands of them died laying track nineteen, twenty hours a day. But for those of us who are from Europe, we have this fiction that we've told, and we believe it, even though there's no truth to it. You know, the fiction is two parts. Number one, we say things like, with regard to Mexicans coming over the border, with regard to immigrants coming, but only that border only only care about, right, the southern border. I find that interesting. We're not flipping out about Canada, right ? We don't have any of the minute manner. The anti - immigrant groups sitting off the coast of Nova Scotia with a gun and a scope, trying to like pick off the sneaky Canadians that are trying to sneak in here for our superior health care system, which, after all, would be pretty stupid thing to do. But in any event, we only care about that one border, forgetting for a minute that that border was created at the end of a war that was started on false pretense by this country, after which we jack half of their country. And you weren't taught that in school, leader, because history books aren't interested in telling the truth until this very patriotic history that has no relationship to the fact. So that borders. Artificial. Mexican folk who are coming here, documented or not, let's be clear, are coming home. Their families were here before. Our families were here in almost every instance. But we forget that. And then we say things like, Well, I don't mind them coming. I just want them to come legally like my people did. Now the hell does that even mean come legally ? There was no lot of break when our people came. The fact that we didn't break a law that didn't even exist. You don't get cookies for that. You don't get like a pat on the back and a gold star because your great, great, great, whatever, was law abiding when there was no law that he could have violated, even if he wanted to. But we've told this lie that we came for these upstanding principles. So we'll say things like, Well, you know, our people came for liberty, freedom, democracy. These people are just coming for stuff. They're just coming for jobs. They're just coming for health care. They're just coming for stuff. We came for. High - minded principal, right ? Because we believe that we'Re going to third grade version of American history. Is that right ? Like when Donald Trump says Mexico is now not sending their best. What the hell you think Europe sent their best. Europe Know our people were the losers of Europe. I'm not trying to be an asshole. I'm just telling you the truth Like our people were the losers of Europe. The winners didn't get on the boat. You understand what I'm saying ? The winners didn't leave. Why the hell would you leave if you were winning ? Only the losers left because they had no choice. They were dying. They were starving. They couldn't support their families. A lot of them were ca convicts who were sold into indentured servitude to rich to work for rich European people. They were barely above the level of a slave themselves. The idea that we had these high. We didn't believe in liberty and freedom. And we know that because once we got to the colonies, we set up the opposite of liberty. Share, believe, inspire blacks, be.
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