Little Rock Over and over again I would ask members, organizers, activists and others, “What’s the skinny on Brexit? What’s it going to mean to us and our people?” The answer was almost invariably a shrug and one of those looks that says, “who the heck knows?” That’s not to say there aren’t a lot …
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Pity the Poor Immigrant
Banska Bystrica Traveling across Slovakia and listening to my guide, I recalled the contradictions of Bob Dylan’s song, “I pity the poor immigrant,” where he is both sympathetic to the plight of immigrants and suspicious of them. I pity the poor immigrant Whose strength is spent in vain Whose heaven is like …
Hating Immigrants is the Wild Card in the Electoral Deck
New Orleans Wow! It must have suddenly become hate-on-an-immigrant day and Hallmark didn’t prepare any condolence cards for the rest of us. In one day the lives of immigrant millions of families were cast into limbo with the split, no-decision 4-4 polling of the Supreme Court and the 52-48 so-called Brexit vote for Great Britain …