Better to be the marketplace, the mix, the crossroads, the center of all cultures than to be the mean little place no one really wants to go because you just can't tell when those primates will start shooting.
It should be considered our superpower, this multinational/multilingual mixing. That's what I was taught in school. How did we all not get the same American history?
Martin Gilbert once wrote about the American entry into World War I -- the most combat-ready Americans were the New York Brigade, made up of dozens of different ethnic groups. The British and the French shunned their help, barring them from combat because all knew such a motley crew could never fight together. But when Ludendorff's Spring Offensive got to within eighty miles of Paris and whole divisions of French and British soldiers were retreating at speed from the advancing 1.3 million man German spearhead, the generals had no choice.
And into the fray strode the Americans. They didn't fight fair at all, used trickery and deceit, and scandalized the front-line French officers with their unmanly tactics. They also stopped the German spearhead cold, and drove it back three miles within the first week. The Kaiser privately talked about suing for peace, and exhorted his officers to lecture their men that the Americans only 'put one pants leg on at a time', and that the Germans should not fear them.
From absolute defeat to absolute victory at the first test. The motley crew, the ragtags, the hash of New York thrown in as a desperate last gamble.
White Supremacy and Racism are un-American according to the Words, but they are also weak, stupid, and self-destructive. Our superpower is that we are the New World, where that shit doesn't matter.
I want to watch the young people lash back. For thirty years they're going to rage. I believe it. It will be big business to help scrub Trump affiliations. Racism will be hiding under the rock again, and I hope that rock gets turned over.
I hate this shit. Goddamnit.
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