Stop saying this is not who we are. It IS who we are!

Children's lives being ruined at our Southern Border

What part of "traumatized for life" do we not understand?

the life of Frederick Douglass

We ignored family relations during the slave trade. Mother, father, child might be initially sold each to a different slave holder. Later, on the plantations, marriage was prohibited. A parent or child might be sold to different plantations. Newborn infants were taken from their mothers often the day of birth and cared for by a wet nurse until they were old enough to work, at age 5 or so, and were often sold without ever having gotten to know either of their parents. New mothers were usually sent back to the fields the day after giving birth, permanently damaging their health and life. One parent, the father, was often, very often, the while slave owner or his workers who were free to force relations giving the female no choice. In Modern America, family formation has been discouraged and prevented by taking benefits to the mother of children born out of wedlock if she married the father of her children or gave them a step-father. Our policies promoted and encouraged illegitimacy and absent fathers.

We forcibly took Native American children from their parents and sent them federal government oardimg schools fatr from home to be made over in hair, clothing, language, beliefs like the white majority. They were stripped of their native culture. Their hair was cut; their clothes were changed, their culture was stripped from them,

Before and After

and they were brutally beaten for using their Native American languages. These beatings continued in our public schools into the 1950's, some right here in western North Carolina.

If you were as much as 1/16th Japanese, you lost your freedom after Pearl Harbor. Thousands and thousands of Japanese American citizens, people who were born here and couldn't even speak Japanese, were incarcerated in concentration camps, a practice euphemistically called

"internment." Although there was little overt and deliberate shattering of family structure, conditions were terrible. An entire family could be forced to live in one horse stall with no facilities to cook or clean themselves.. Tar paper shacks were sometimes rapidly built. Historians have shown beyond doubt that the claim that the Japanese Americans were incarcerated because they were a national security threat is totally false and that pure and simple racism fueled this movement.

We are going through another epoch in which white supremacy drives America. The same problem is growing in Germany and Italy. If we are not a facist country at this moment, we are hurtling through time and space to become one. Fascism is nascent all through the Western Democracies in which freedom and equality ruled for almost 70 years.

MR. SESSIONS' SCRIPTURES

Now that Sessions has brought the Bible into the discussion, let's look at a few examples of what Biblical scripture tells us to do:

Deuteronomy 10: 19 You shall love the stranger, for you were once strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:34 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 25: 35 I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.

Matt. 25:40 Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me.

We have too many citizens among us who have not learned from history. Too many don't even know history.

America is currently ruled and controlled by apostates and philistines -- faux Christians, and they don't even know it.

Edmumd Burke said that all that is required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

Only a minority are perpetrators. But the rest of us must each decide for ourselves whether we will be accomplices, accessories, aids, abettors, silent partners. Good people who do nothing.

I will NOT be a person who does nothing.