I'm all for eliminating the divide between people in the United states and the world..... "Why can't we all just get along?" But unless you've been in a deep rem state for most of your life in America, you know that we aren't just getting along.......... and that race and class are used to keep the priviledged haves divided and apart from the unpriviledged have nots. I must assume that you are not a minority.
Be clear that it's inaccurate to group slaves and their descendants as immigrants. And please be extra clear that immigrants ALWAYS have a choice to relocate when the grass seems greener. Really, these comments reveal your distance from the realities about which you speak. They are careless and haphazard. But they also reveal your good intentions. Unfortunately, the harm that can be caused by this type of thinking is a strong reason for stringent adoption mandates. If we're going to get along as you suggest, we need to live together. And if we permit interracial adoptions, We need rigid screening for cultural-sensitivity within white families wanting to adopt otherwise healthy black, asian and other children as their own. The same, I believe, should be required if a white child is slated to be adopted into a black family.
Your assertion that hispanics are racially different that other groups is almost laughable. If you go anywhere near NY, Miami, PR, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Peru, Chile or Rhode Island, you will see that the hispanic ethnicity is well represented by all races. And it just happens that the black hispanics are also descendants of slaves. They simply did not end up in anglo land. And please note that October, every year, is hispanic heritage month.
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