A Response To Mr. Slade's Arduous Task

Mr. Slade, in response to your assignment:

America has done a lot of things to minorities.  It’s frightened them, it’s enslaved them, and it’s tortured and killed them.  But never has America been really scared of them.  It has taken a close to home minority to instill fear in many Americans.  The influx of Mexican illegal immigrants has scared the pants off of the American public.  And though this issue has taken a back seat to the economic crisis, they are still prevalent.

Surprisingly, this does not seem to be an article about America’s racist ways or its economic interests as much as it is about the positives and negatives of these aliens.  America is most freaked out about “loosing its identity”, but after 300+ years of immigrants, wars, and depression, we haven’t really budged except for becoming more open and tolerant.  The tolerance is limited, however, because in the 1900’s we decided to cap our immigration quota at a much lower point than before.  America is trying to protect the population density and integrity of itself.  People are afraid that Spanish might be as prevalent as English and we will all blend in to one big melting pot.  Now what is the problem with that?  It is the “great American melting pot”, right?

All there is to say is that “America” still considers itself to be white, when in reality pretty soon white will just be the largest of very many minorities.  So, white America should be accepting of their new friends because one- they were here first, and second- we’ve been inviting them in for the past 300 years, why stop now?  Over reacting? You bet you are.