Martin Luther King – Walls Separating Mankind
Martin Luther King when asked about the Berlin Wall: This is my first vision of the Wall. “And do you find it depressing?” Yes, I certainly do. It symbolizes the divisions of mankind. “Have you ever seen anything as disastrous as this?” Not really. Suddenly there are the divisions that continue to exist but when these divisions are symbolized by an actual wall, it becomes very depressing.
Yeah–how many jobless immigrants have YOU offered to allow to live in your home? How many penniless “masses yearning to breathe free” are enough for you? A half billion? A billion? Because that’s probably how many would come if we just threw open the borders. And what would THAT do to the finances of the welfare state?
It’s easy to virtue-signal, especially when your job isn’t on the line. It’s tough to make actual sacrifices.
Karl:
Since The Great Wall of China going forward, the masses on the other side of the wall have always found a way to get to the other side. My actual sacrifice is allowing you an opportunity to comment here without having someone like EMichael, PGL, Barkley, or even Bert kick your butt every time you say something dumb.
MMMMM??? Kolchak
Doesn’t look like a real murikan name. Go Back To Where You Came From!!!!!
I’m ignoring irrelevant rants like that one from Karl. Better spending my time reading the various writings of Dr. King. Glad you showed this 1964 visit to the Berlin Wall by Dr. King. On tearing down this wall – Dr. King and St. Reagan agreed.
@Karl,
Nobody is suggesting throwing open the borders.
It’s tough making an argument based on actual, you know, facts. Instead of using false dichotomies and phony propaganda. But you should try it some day.
Smarter trolls, please.
“Nobody is suggesting throwing open the borders.”
Karl is worried that a billion immigrants would move here which is beyond absurd. But let’s say they did – then our population would match that of China. How is that going to happen unless a lot of the immigrants come from China. Maybe Karl is scared he might have to live next to a family of Asians!
PGL:
As Joel Garreau pointed out in 300 Million and Counting, we occupy ~6% of the land mass in the US. There is certainly enough room for more as long as it is not near the fault areas, ocean fronts, fresh water sites, etc. There is no need to work 40+ hours per week. We could easily put more people to work at 32 hours per week as Mr. Walker suggests. The damage to jobs was not done by immigrants from the South, it was done by people like Drucker, Demming, myself and others who improved processes, throughput, and invented the machines (CNC) which could reduce the jobs.
This is just scare tactics by a man (loosely applied) in the Whitehouse who is afraid his son might like a black haired beauty from another country. He does not want to be a minority. So, we have to close the border. And the drugs? They will still get into the country and delivered in containers and whatever else is used in transportation other than peoples trying to escape from another country.
What did his parents do to him?
300 million and counting was written in 2006. It is still worth the read:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/300-million-and-counting-133184973/
PGL:
When it came out, I used it over at Slate when it was a real place to comment at on topics. l and I exchanged emails for a bit.
“This is just scare tactics by a man (loosely applied) in the Whitehouse who is afraid his son might like a black haired beauty from another country. He does not want to be a minority.”
Something tells me that a Mexican would look at Fred Jr. (or Trump’s two other sons) and go ewwww. Of course we know why Trump has been able to marry cute women – THE MONEY!
I went to Queens New York to find a pretty queen. Her mom did not like me. I was still in the Marines at the time. My aunts lived on either side of her along with all my little cousins.