In The End, We All Go Back To Where We Came From
Above is a picture I took today here in Houston of the grave of Vidal Ramirez Garcia.
The grave says that Mr. Garcia was a private first class in the army during World War II.
I don’t know anything about Mr. Garcia. But it seems that he was a man of Hispanic origin who served the United States in a time of war.
Today we hear stories about people who have been in the United States for many generations being told to go back where they came from.
In the end, we all back to where we came from.
We have a choice as individuals.
We can go on about if the President is from Kenya and blame immigrants for our own problems, or we can be welcoming to our fellow human beings as they seek a better life in a tough world.
This is the choice we have.
This does not mean we can’t have laws regarding immigration or that those laws should not be enforced.
What it does mean though, is that we allow anger to guide our public policy we lose any chance of being a decent people.
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Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
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Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
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Bravo! on this post. I’m a Texas born Latino/Hispanic and totally agree with you. Si SR., I really do.
Thank you.
After retiring from teaching for 30 yrs., I’ve always realized there is deep Racism, against anyone not old American.These Tea party people are, spreading Discord, one of God’s 7 most hated sins. When you have someone like the x Alaskan Gov., say some of the things she does, it just feeds the fury. She is not capable of giving deep intelligent comments and is unable to have an insiteful knowledgable discussion. She just stands and spurts it out. She has drug those kids all over the country and carries on like a 16 yr.old when someone makes a comment.I think her top priority is making money. I’m sure she is in Church every sunday, like most tea Parties,.
Ms. Radford–Nothing I can add to your fine comment. You are always on the mark.