Posted on 11/11/2008 12:22:19 PM PST by reaganaut1
[T]he greatest Kennedy legacy to Obama [is] the Immigration Act of 1965, which created the diverse country that is already being called Obama's America.
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It transformed a nation 85 percent white in 1965 into one that's one-third minority today, and on track for a nonwhite majority by 2042.
Before the act, immigration visas were apportioned based on the demographic breakdown that existed at the time of the 1920 Census - meaning that there were few if any limits on immigrants from Western and Northern Europe, but strict quotas on those from elsewhere.
The belief that the United States should remain a nation of European lineage was openly discussed when immigration laws were revisited in 1952. The resulting bill, the McCarran-Walter Act, was notorious for giving the State Department the right to exclude visitors for ideological reasons, meaning that a raft of left-wing artists and writers - including Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, British novelist Graham Greene - and scores of others were denied visas. But it also had the effect of maintaining the 1920s-era notion of the United States as a white nation. (Congress imposed the bill over President Truman's veto.)
A decade later, attitudes were changing, and President Kennedy proposed a new immigration structure that would no longer be based on national origins. After Kennedy's assassination, his brother Ted took up the fight, pushing the Johnson administration to go even further than it wanted in evening the playing field. Though Lyndon Johnson, in signing the bill, tried to reassure opponents that it wouldn't do much to change the balance of immigration, its impact was dramatic.
In the 1950s, 53 percent of all immigrants were Europeans and just 6 percent were Asians; by the 1990s, just 16 percent were Europeans and 31 percent were Asians.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
What a rascist, hate whitey column!
We destroyed our country... YAY!
“What a rascist, hate whitey column!”
Huh? I think it is an accurate reporting of the results of the 1965 immigration act. One can infer that the author approves of the results, but he still provides useful information.
This legislation has been my pet peeve forever. Cultural homogeneity is important for a society, so when you start importing millions of people from disparate cultures, you get a very different cultural mix - different values, different work ethics, different religions, different traditions, etc. This legislation also coincided with the rise of the concept of multiculturalism, so not only do we all come from different parts of the world, but we all want to remain separate when we get here. This of course is in direct contravention to our national motto. The system is still working because there is a dominant culture, but as the mix changes, we will devolve into factionalism, increasing identity politics, a sort of ugly tribalism, and the America we knew – so much changed now as it is – will cease to exist. I wish I could say I was optimistic about our future, but I am not – the course has been set.
So, has the nation improved or gotten worse since then?
The Boston Globe (NYT) will never infer the logical and correct answer as it related to poverty, crime, employement, schools and education...as it is politically incorrect, like every European nation that has welcomed the 3rd World inside its borders.
The exception makes the rule, but there are very few immigration officials in 3rd World nations admitting whites, let’s face it.
There is glee in the author’s writing.
Exactly—only the opposite. The non-European immigrants, coming as they do almost universally from despotic cultures, bring with them the behavioral legacy of slavery. Tribal loyalty and mob action instead of law; temptation to hand-outs instead of faith that individual initiative will triumph.
The success and survival of the free-market and the rule of law depend on transmitting to all, immigrants and natives alike, the philosophy and attitude of yeoman farmers in England of the 17th century.
That's what the (12th-century?) tale of Robin Hood is really about, as I recall: Not treating the rich like a pinata, but taking back from a corrupt government what was stolen from hard-working, responsible small farmers.
I am surprised that this was printed in the Boston Globe. I am glad that the MSM now recognizes what impact the 1965 Immigration Act has had on our politics. There may be some triumphalism in the article, but I bet it sends shivers down the spines of most of the readers.
Yes, he hates his own people and what they contributed to the world. I’m sure his sense of guilt was the driving factor to go to a Liberal college, with Liberal professors to think that Marxism was the way to excuse, yet promote, every third world nation.
Kennedy hates the America that gave him so much.
Kennedy died in 1963.
Immigration Act of 1965 aka National Suicide
At what point will immigration levels be throttled back? What is the “fundamental right” to immigrate to this country (regardless of demographic, economic standing, titles, skills)?
Coincidentally, the United States began its long, slow decline (which has picked up steam lately) around 1965.
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When ethnic skirmishes break out in “diverse” cities and enough “open minded” types finally get the hint.
That act in 1965 was truly the beginning of the end for the United States. It was nice while it lasted and I am thankful that I got the best of it. However, I am worried about my kiddo and what lies ahead for her future.
To get even, I am afraid that our multi cultural society will be blatantly biased against people of European descent.
We will be expected to work and pay taxes for the freeloaders from all over the world who come here to mooch rather than contribute.
Teddy Kennedy has done more damage to this country than any other politician besides LBJ (so far).
Same with the Scandinavian nations and France. Also, the whitest parts of the US, i...e the Northeast are the most socialist.
Third, even if immigration had favored Western and Northern white Europeans, considering the fact many Western Europeans are hate America socialist types I do not see what it would have changed
Fourth, the biggest movers and shakers of liberalism in America, i...e the Media Barons, the academia, Hollywood are all majority white. George Soros is a white European immigrant.
Any country with universal suffrage automatically drifts toward Socialism over 200-300 years, IMHO.
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