WinterBorn
Diamond Member
He was talking about ethnically German or Irish or even Swedish people mixing in with the founding British stock of the nation. Context matters. The founding fathers were extremely racist and xenophobic compared to just about every white American today.Republicans didn't cause the change in immigration policy.By everyone let in by Democrat traitors.By whom? Asian Americans?
Oh, so the people allowed in by Republicans are ok? Which party let the parents or grandparents or great grandparents of the Asian couple mentioned in the OP into our country?
And just as an FYI, this country is not just for European Americans.
Ted Kennedy and other snakes in his party did.
You are ignorant about the founding of this country.
If the couple in question were born here, I doubt Ted Kennedy change the rules that allowed their parents to immigrate.
I am fully aware that the founding of this nation was by white europeans. I am also aware that things have changed since then. You no longer need to be a white landowner to participate in the process that selects our leaders. I also know that many of the founding fathers had very positive attitudes aboiut immigrants who would embrace our nation and assimilate. Or as George Washington put it “by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people.”.
I see nothing in the articles about this incident that shows the couple in question are not Americans.
If Ted Kennedy didn't change the immigration policy of this country, we would look largely the same today as what we looked like before he changed it(most likely even more European than we were, because we would simply increase the birth rate to make up for the lower immigration from Europe).
Luckily we are not so ignorant as to think all other races are inferior.
As for how we looked before Kennedy changed the laws, you are sadly mistaken. During WWII there were around 117,000 people of Japanese descent put into internment camps. That does not even count the people of Chinese, Korean, or other Asian descent. There were almost a million Asian Americans in 1960. That was 5 years before Kennedy changed the immigration laws. They were already here.
And Asians have always been the part of the population that is not white, but also doesn't seem to be a problem. In fact, their academic success rates are higher than whites. And without affirmative action.