re: #265 HappyWarrior
Honestly what gets me is white people who insist MY FAMILY EMIGRATED LEGALLY! Well, can they prove that and the concept of legal versus illegal immigration is a new thing. But yeah the immigration policy to the Chinese was awful. When I went to Donner National Park, they had a side exhibit about the Chinese on the railroad. Man how those people were treated was awful.
I am mindful that today’s anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant rhetoric are THE EXACT SAME ONES, argument for argument, word for word, as the ones used against my family and friends. I am the living counter-argument to their stupid arguments; their words leave me profoundly unimpressed.