This says it all. Now people can keep lying to themselves about how Trumps immigration policy is not racist, but lying to yourself is only a coping mechanism you are using to absolve yourselves from the fact you voted for and support a racist president and administration.
Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans
By ZEKE MILLER and ASHLEY THOMAS Associated Press
August 14, 2019
A top Trump administration official says the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty, welcoming "huddled masses" of immigrants to American shores, was referring to "people coming from Europe" and that the nation is looking to receive migrants "who can stand on their own two feet."
The comments on Tuesday from Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, came a day after the Trump administration announced it would seek to deny green cards to migrants who seek Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. The move, and Cuccinelli's defense, prompted an outcry from Democrats and immigration advocates who said the policy would favor wealthier immigrants and disadvantage those from poorer countries in Latin America and Africa.
"This administration finally admitted what we've known all along: They think the Statue of Liberty only applies to white people," tweeted former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate.
Trump official: Statue of Liberty's poem is about Europeans
Before the excuses come, understand that only whites were allowed to be citizens in some cases until the 1950's.
Liberty Enlightening the World is the actual name of the statue
She is standing guard over our shores
The poem was not part of her origins
nor has nothing to do with her significance
the Statue of Liberty has become a symbol of the possibilities of immigration immigration, but Americans at the dedication ceremony weren’t much concerned with welcoming the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and neither were her creators.
The idea for the statue came out of an 1865 dinner party near the palace of Versailles. The guests, mostly intellectuals and artists, weren’t fond of the current French government, a repressive regime headed by Emperor Napoleon III. They wanted to find some way to celebrate the liberal values important to them, values like individual rights and freedom of expression.
Those principles weren’t doing that well in France, but they did seem to be flourishing in the United States, which had just abolished slavery. And so, the dinner guests dreamed up a grand gesture that would help connect France to the American story of expanding freedoms, a statue of liberty lifting a torch and crushing a broken chain beneath her feet. It would be a gift from French citizens to the US, representing Franco-American friendship, the expansion of liberties in both countries, and the hope for world peace. But one thing it wouldn’t represent was immigration, says Peter Skerry, a political scientist at Boston College.“The notion of the United States as a refuge or a goal for migrants wasn’t part of what the French liberals had in mind at all.”
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