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#2 It is a shame that we have not been inspired to fight
a similar battle over taxes ourselves, for if any group pays
a heavy penalty - financially and spiritually - for mere
survival in the American welfare state, it is us.
#3 The ladders of upward financial mobility open
to the voluntary immigrants who came to these shores seeking
freedom from oppression are closed to us, America's single
group of involuntary arrivals. The European/American drew his strength
from his ability to retain and draw from his European culture,
while the African-American saw his culture, language, religion
and family destroyed. As slaverly passed from the scene, we
entered into a permanent phase of un- and under-employment
from which we have yet to emerge, while the European found
the growth of mercantile capitalism especially fitted to his
cashbox mentality.
#4 This is a cruel suggestion for a people without any
boots at all.