“Hurts to love a country that does not recognize your humanity”
I hate to take it there, but welcome to the black perspective for the past few centuries. I’m not trying to be petty and I don’t know this guys politics beyond this post so I’m not even speaking to him. But I’ll be honest, there is a certain feeling of “this will be good in the long term” because many immigrants come to the US with a false positive history or no historical knowledge of how this country works, especially when it comes to treatment of minorities, particularly black and native people.
During the civil war approximately 250k black men, my male ancestors on my mom’s side included , decided to fight in the union colored army despite mistreatment from “fellow” white soldiers and leaders because they wanted to make the sacrifice with their own blood to free their people. Only to be abandoned during reconstruction from the north and to be mistreated for another century under jIm crow in the south.
Black folks went and fought in the world wars while being treated different and as second class in segregated units only to be denied the benefits of things like GI loans and treated like shyt by the people they just went and fought for.
Blacks folks made up the bulk of early recruits in Vietnam while being purposely put in more danger and mistreated again at home by people who are angry that blacks dared to ask for equal rights.
Even the rhetoric now if you look beneath the surface implies that these people only view whites as “real Americans” and do not view blacks who have ancestry going back to the founding and early history of this country as country men and they damn sure won’t view any recent immigrant as countrymen.
Welcome to the USA.
