I always thought Jean Bo’s mud hut in Carter’s Grove was far more important than all that later stuff anyway.
Ellis Island belongs more to the recent immigration debate than to any notion that it’s where our nation began. It’s not, but too many PC stooges are more comfortable with Ellis Island than with Jamestown and other early settlements, and other early contact with American Indians.
And, as the article says, there was 270 years of Europeans in America, creating and building and founding the USA, long, long, before anyone thought of making Ellis Island an immigrant receiving center, or before the Statue of Liberty was erected.
We are NOT a nation of immigrants, but a nation of settlers and builders who created a nation that later immigrants desired to become a part of.
I agree with your comments.
The left wants to convince US Citizens that there is nothing different about Mexicans crossing our borders illegaly, and people being processed through Ellis Island.
It’s rather humorous to see them make this claim, because about everyone knows there is a big difference.
The concept of “Ellis Island” has of course been bastardized by people like Senator Domenici with his idiotic “Little Pete” stories who emotionalize it into this magical wonderland.
In fact, Ellis Island was a place where all immigrants were subject to strict screening for health and criminal records—which is the very least we should demand of our current immigration system. In this sense “Ellis Island” is a model which still has validity, as long as it’s the real one, not an exercise in phony nostalgia.
Thanks for posting this. VERY good point!
But, “.. but let’s not forget our entire two hundred seventy year history prior to Ellis Island.”
They don’t even remember places like the Argonne Forest, Chateau-Thierry, San Juan Hill, the Maine. Ask them about King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, Louisbourg, or the Pontiac’s Rebellion and they will look at you with blank faces. Ask them about Stephan Decateur or Daniel Morgan or Alvin York. Ask them about Audie Murphy or John Paul Jones.
People who don’t know their national past, can’t possibly understand their national present. We and our politically correct schools are raising generations of historical idiots. And that is is just what the leftist liberals want..
Whoever controls the past rules the present. Whoever rules the present will inheret the future.
The website in question, www.weareellisisland.org, does, as far as I can tell, say nothing about Ellis Island being any birthplace.
Keywords + web search yields websites containing any of the keywords.
My people came in through Ellis Island in 1900. The Jews Italians and Irish that came through have created enough hub bub and bluster and novels and TV shows to make it seem that Ellis Island immigrants created America. This of course isn’t true
I am always disinterested in the Civil War and slavery reparations. Because my people weren’t even here yet
But I am interested in America’s origins and our Revolutionary War
What's there seems pretty harmless. Was the website changed or what?
Not all of the people on the site are celebrities and not all of them will help the cause. Are we any better off because Kristin Cavallari lives here? Is she?
I guess there's a problem with "we" and "our", but it doesn't necessarily mean "all of us." It can mean just a group or part of our population.
Ellis Island, I was told growing up, was for the people who had money. The rest of us got as far as Halifax and had to take a tug down the coast.
Canada has opened an immigration museum in Halifax recently. There website says "Our Story Begins Here." That should make for some controversy as well.