The Browning of America
Boy, if we’re not careful, and if we don’t begin to do something about immigration, we will see the browning of America just keep going and going and going. Hasn’t our country already suffered enough? After all, we have spent over 500 years bleaching America; going from red to white. These color changes can really change a society, if we’re not careful.
If we’re not careful, we will let the browning of America change our opinion about taking care of the elderly. You see, 78 percent of Hispanics actually believe a family should care for an elderly mother or father while only 46 percent of the rest of us believe such a thing.
If we’re not careful, we will see more and more of our society being against abortion as 80 percent of those Hispanics (yes, 80 percent) are actually against abortion while only 57 percent of the rest of us are against it. Wow, we’d just better be careful.
If we’re not careful, we will see more of a focus on our family rather than the great opportunities that capitalism brings to our society. Family first, job second. Can you imagine such a thing? Henry Ford would roll over in his grave. I, for one, am really glad he is not here to see this.
If we’re not careful, we will lose all those jobs that I am sure many of the rest of us want at less than minimum wage, with no insurance and certainly no retirement. There are so many who want to pick that fruit in the hot sun and sacrifice their earning power for the rest of us. If those darn Hispanics just we’re here, I know the lines would be long for those physically demanding jobs.
Oh, speaking of physically demanding jobs, can you imagine the weight problem we are going to begin to have if we can’t do that physical work those darn Hispanics are taking from us? Lack of exercise and the subsequent weight increase will bulge our health care costs, along with our waist lines, that is, if we’re not careful.
And finally, after all, breaking the law is breaking the law. Exceptions should never, ever be tolerated. Our revolutionary forefathers revolted against English law, but that was for a good cause, our freedom (and not the freedom of those Hispanics down south of us). Well, those crazy ancestors of ours, who bought alcohol during prohibition, broke the law and that law changed. But, again, that was for a good caus…oops, just never mind about that. You see, if we’re not careful, breaking the law will actually change the law. The next thing you know, we’ll change the speed limit from “Stay alive at 55” to some unsafe speed limit just because so many people are breaking that law. Oh wait, we’ve already done that. See, I told you so.
Now, with the fun part brought into check, I just hope we can tone down the rhetoric on both sides of this escalating issue. While there are some from Mexico who really do want to take California back, most from Mexico do not. While there are some who do bring in illegal drugs and are even criminals trying to avoid justice in Mexico, most are not. The bottom-line—can’t we please focus more on the most and tone down the rhetoric about the exception to the most.
On the other side of the issue, can’t you work harder for adequate immigration laws and less on demands for immediate acceptance, right now, amnesty and all? Yes, fight to be treated fairly, but accept where you are and your current illegal status and work hard to change it; with a unified voice, not a demanding and often threatening one.
There are those who want to build a wall to hold the Mexicans back at the border. Can’t you just picture a world leader telling our president, maybe twenty or thirty years from now, “Mr. President, tear down that wall”? Yes, I know, the Berlin Wall was to keep people in and this wall is to keep people out. But, for those from Mexico, the effect is the same. HOWEVER, until we solve this problem, our open borders leave us vulnerable in ways that should down right scare the liver out of us. The point is, I hope there is a better way to solve the problem without building a dang wall.
As for health care costs for those who are illegal, the best solution is a job that recognizes their legal status as workers and offers a group health insurance option (and this, of course, applies to all of us, not just immigrants). The key word in that phase is “group” to help keep the costs down. A sick four-year-old child who needs to have an inflamed appendix removed doesn’t care if his parents are legal or not, or if his parents have health insurance or not. We all want a better health care system and let’s hope that includes everyone.
Congress gets close to a resolution, then is appears to fall apart once more, literally one day to the next. The conservatives can warm their hearts just a degree or two—just enough to listen a little closer to the other side, and the liberals can truly address the vulnerability an open border gives us, and health care costs and other social issues associated with immigration, just enough to listen a little more to the other side. Both sides—More listening to truly understand, to truly appreciate and to truly address. I am absolutely sure we will not find the answers until both sides do more listenting and less talking.
Until then, if it ever happens at all, I, for one, look forward to “the browning of America” and the changes in our society that come with it.
If we’re not careful, we will let the browning of America change our opinion about taking care of the elderly. You see, 78 percent of Hispanics actually believe a family should care for an elderly mother or father while only 46 percent of the rest of us believe such a thing.
If we’re not careful, we will see more and more of our society being against abortion as 80 percent of those Hispanics (yes, 80 percent) are actually against abortion while only 57 percent of the rest of us are against it. Wow, we’d just better be careful.
If we’re not careful, we will see more of a focus on our family rather than the great opportunities that capitalism brings to our society. Family first, job second. Can you imagine such a thing? Henry Ford would roll over in his grave. I, for one, am really glad he is not here to see this.
If we’re not careful, we will lose all those jobs that I am sure many of the rest of us want at less than minimum wage, with no insurance and certainly no retirement. There are so many who want to pick that fruit in the hot sun and sacrifice their earning power for the rest of us. If those darn Hispanics just we’re here, I know the lines would be long for those physically demanding jobs.
Oh, speaking of physically demanding jobs, can you imagine the weight problem we are going to begin to have if we can’t do that physical work those darn Hispanics are taking from us? Lack of exercise and the subsequent weight increase will bulge our health care costs, along with our waist lines, that is, if we’re not careful.
And finally, after all, breaking the law is breaking the law. Exceptions should never, ever be tolerated. Our revolutionary forefathers revolted against English law, but that was for a good cause, our freedom (and not the freedom of those Hispanics down south of us). Well, those crazy ancestors of ours, who bought alcohol during prohibition, broke the law and that law changed. But, again, that was for a good caus…oops, just never mind about that. You see, if we’re not careful, breaking the law will actually change the law. The next thing you know, we’ll change the speed limit from “Stay alive at 55” to some unsafe speed limit just because so many people are breaking that law. Oh wait, we’ve already done that. See, I told you so.
Now, with the fun part brought into check, I just hope we can tone down the rhetoric on both sides of this escalating issue. While there are some from Mexico who really do want to take California back, most from Mexico do not. While there are some who do bring in illegal drugs and are even criminals trying to avoid justice in Mexico, most are not. The bottom-line—can’t we please focus more on the most and tone down the rhetoric about the exception to the most.
On the other side of the issue, can’t you work harder for adequate immigration laws and less on demands for immediate acceptance, right now, amnesty and all? Yes, fight to be treated fairly, but accept where you are and your current illegal status and work hard to change it; with a unified voice, not a demanding and often threatening one.
There are those who want to build a wall to hold the Mexicans back at the border. Can’t you just picture a world leader telling our president, maybe twenty or thirty years from now, “Mr. President, tear down that wall”? Yes, I know, the Berlin Wall was to keep people in and this wall is to keep people out. But, for those from Mexico, the effect is the same. HOWEVER, until we solve this problem, our open borders leave us vulnerable in ways that should down right scare the liver out of us. The point is, I hope there is a better way to solve the problem without building a dang wall.
As for health care costs for those who are illegal, the best solution is a job that recognizes their legal status as workers and offers a group health insurance option (and this, of course, applies to all of us, not just immigrants). The key word in that phase is “group” to help keep the costs down. A sick four-year-old child who needs to have an inflamed appendix removed doesn’t care if his parents are legal or not, or if his parents have health insurance or not. We all want a better health care system and let’s hope that includes everyone.
Congress gets close to a resolution, then is appears to fall apart once more, literally one day to the next. The conservatives can warm their hearts just a degree or two—just enough to listen a little closer to the other side, and the liberals can truly address the vulnerability an open border gives us, and health care costs and other social issues associated with immigration, just enough to listen a little more to the other side. Both sides—More listening to truly understand, to truly appreciate and to truly address. I am absolutely sure we will not find the answers until both sides do more listenting and less talking.
Until then, if it ever happens at all, I, for one, look forward to “the browning of America” and the changes in our society that come with it.
posted by Ron Campbell at 12:50 PM
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