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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 18:08:40 EDT
"As hostile as anybody were many Americans who themselves were descendent
from immigrant families. The word "kike," used to describe the Eastern European
Jews, many of whose name ended in Ki, was coined by New York's long settled
German Jews.
In our own more civilized century new immigrants have hardly been treated
any better. In the 1910's those from Southern and Eastern Europe even faced the
possibility of mass sterilization, or worse. In a popular book endorsed by
Theodore Roosevelt, the racist Madison Grant went so far as to suggest that the
state had a moral obligation to put certain immigrant types to death. Quote by
Theodore Roosevelt," The book is a capital book, in purpose, in vision, in
grasp of the facts our people must need to realize, it shows a fine fearlessness
in assailing the popular and mischievous sentimentalities and attractive and
corroding falsehoods which few men dare assail." the book, " The Passing of
the Great Race."
In 1924 the federal government, fed up with the influx of Italian, Chinese
and Jewish immigrants, decided to limit those who could come into the country,
Italy was limited to four thousand immigrants annually, Russia two thousand,
China and Palestine a hundred apiece. Great Britain was allowed thirty-four
thousand per year, Germany fifty-one thousand. More recently immigrants from
Southeast Asia have faced widespread animosity and discrimination, some,
including fishermen along the Texas Gulf Coast, have even had their livelihoods
threatened.
Historians estimate that of the twenty-million immigrants who came to the
United States between 1820 to 1900, about five million returned to their place
of origin.
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