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1965 I was with my ex-husband who was in the military in CA, homesick, first child Feb 64, 2nd child Nov 65, had to work to survive, was following the war and Cuba, Watts riots?, protestors (huge issue then esp on the west coast), skip some personal issues, it's a wonder I held it together as long as I did,. So it went completely under my radar even though I read US News and World Report and one other, probably Newsweek but selective articles and listened to radio at night, into the night because I couldn't sleep. Ira Blue, Hungry I Eye? Went to visit on way home, and Ira came over and talked to us. And don't recall anybody talking about it at the AFB where I worked. My memory for details has never been good but I do remember the overall gist of a lot of things.

So I started looking things up awhile back but didn't remember Hart and Celler names, did remember the latter was a Jew, not that it should matter but sometimes it does.

I hadn't had any exposure to foreigners at the time, had a prejudice against Asians (not many in my midwest home state, MA or CA yet). After meeting the wives of some military friends, I came to see how wrong I was and generally like Asians very much. I grew up with blacks, wasn't an issue but was because we didn't socialize, etc. First exposure to Muslims was in Minneapolis. Gradually a few other ethnicities but not the shithole ones except the Algerians who robbed me and my friends in Paris. Last came quite a few Hispanics, some wonderful ones I felt totally at home with despite the differences in our culture, and others I don't like much because their values are so different and watched the illegals marry to get citizenship, etc., etc., cheat and lie without thinking anything about it. So I guess all people have good and bad apples. Some you can't afford to find out which they are.

Now I don't know what Trump said at the meeting, have some compassion for some of the downtrodden ones, but if he used that word, he was only echoing what many think and fear, even on the other side. It actually makes me chuckle. My compassion has limits, I'm a realist, and the images of arrogant, demanding refugees trying to break into Hungary and other places are burned, BURNED in my mind.

Didn't mean to give you such an "earful".