Anti-Immigrant to Blacks: Go back to Africa
While separated by a span of two hundred years, Dan Stein the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the American Colonization Society (ACS) founded in 1816 have something in common. They both want blacks to go back to Africa.
Most of Liberia’s political struggles today are the result of ACS, a U.S. organization that finally shut its doors in 1964. Last Friday the Associated Press reported that Liberia’s democratically elected president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told a Minnesota audience that “. . . the country is making great progress on rebuilding infrastructure, debt relief and education after a 14-year civil war.”
The United States should celebrate this progress, not by turning our backs on a country we helped to create, but by supporting Liberia’s move towards a multi-ethnic democratic society. We accomplish this by supporting those black refugees among us, not forcing them out of the United States into a country that is not yet completely stable. Read more
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