JFK was the end of us.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
I think we’re seeing the left’s immigration plans come to fruition decades after the fact. They are literally remaking America before our eyes. Now I’m not one who thinks everything was perfect in the 50s. Racism is wrong, and I’m glad most whites are no longer racist (minorities, on the other hand, seem to get a pass on their racist dislike of whites. It’s OK when they’re tribalistic.) However, there were many good things about the 50s, too. Who can reasonably argue that WASP culture didn’t bring great prosperity for great numbers of people, including minorities? Who can argue that minorities don’t have more freedom and material wealth here than just about anywhere else. Nevertheless, we gotta create this Tower of Babel in the interest of social justice, whatever that is.
I think we’re seeing the left’s immigration plans come to fruition decades after the fact. They are literally remaking America before our eyes. Now I’m not one who thinks everything was perfect in the 50s. Racism is wrong, and I’m glad most whites are no longer racist (minorities, on the other hand, seem to get a pass on their racist dislike of whites. It’s OK when they’re tribalistic.) However, there were many good things about the 50s, too. Who can reasonably argue that WASP culture didn’t bring great prosperity for great numbers of people, including minorities? Who can argue that minorities don’t have more freedom and material wealth here than just about anywhere else. Nevertheless, we gotta create this Tower of Babel in the interest of social justice, whatever that is.