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Show me a long dirt road that

barefooted — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:14:44 +0000

In reply to I am pleasantly surprised to

Show me a long dirt road that ends with an old, decrepit house with decades worth of azaleas hiding the crumpled front porch and I'm hooked ... that's what articles about our past political and societal structures remind me of, so they call me as well. And much like the yard full of overgrown everything immediately puts a picture in my mind of children playing and dogs barking, articles such as this one remind me of what it was like when our yesterday was their today.

It's important to recognize the reasons people did what they did, and why they chose to do so. An article like this is a treasure, in that it gives an articulately worded snapshot of a past we prefer, too often, to forget. Which is part of why it made me so sad to read it, arta; we're being doomed to repeat it.

I am pleasantly surprised to

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:59:52 +0000

In reply to Well. There's that.

I am pleasantly surprised to find any comment, don't expect it on this type of thing much less discussion. Was just sharing it for the fellow history buffs around here

Also lots of people's families immigrated around that time and though there's plenty of scholarship and oral history about discrimination and prejudices of the time, struck me that it's actually rare to find contemporary proof like this online, such a detailed argument by a highly educated person who also had high standing and in a very respected elite publication.

Well. There's that.

barefooted — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:53:42 +0000

In reply to The Immigrant Problem: June, 1896

Well. There's that.

eta: Sorry for the blunt response, arta. It was an interesting read that was both provocative and depressing, and because it was so well written also profoundly sad.