Feeling Rebloggy
FROM SLATE
Estimated at 121,000-strong, Michigan’s Chaldean community is the largest in the world outside of Iraq, from where these Aramaic-speaking Mesopotamians claim their ancient roots. It’s a result of multiple waves of immigration, mostly starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when many came to the United States as refugees fleeing anti-Assyrian killings and the chaos of the Iran–Iraq War. Since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, sectarian violence, civil war, and the rise of ISIS have killed or displaced more than two-thirds of Iraq’s Christians.
The Chaldeans of Michigan have a conservative history, consistently supporting the Republican Party with votes and donations, and they voted heavily for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, helping him win Michigan by fewer than 11,000 votes. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence inspired many Chaldeans to show up at voting booths with unprecedented enthusiasm by promising to protect persecuted Christians in the Middle East. A Chaldean priest publicly blessed Trump while he was on the campaign trail, and conservative Christians praised Trump’s commitment to Christian minorities on Facebook. Few in the community expected that Trump’s immigration crackdown—touted in part as a means to protect the country from radical Islamists—would come to target them.
But while at the gas station, Naoum received a call from a friend, a prominent Detroit-area attorney. ICE had detained some of his Chaldean clients.
By the time Naoum got to his sister’s house and spent some time with her kids, he was getting messages from family and friends reporting dozens of detainments. At one point, he got a call from a friend from college: “They got my brother,” the friend said. So Naoum locked himself in his brother-in-law’s home office and started making calls.http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/09/michigan_s_iraqi_chaldean_community_is_fighting_to_protect_dozens_of_people.html?
Let me say this again:
Trump is about as Christian as your neighbor's cat. Even religion hating atheists have figured this out by now.
When Trump or a Trump supporter indicates they despise Muslims, what they really mean is they despise anybody who is Middle Eastern
FOR👏
NOT 👏
BEING 👏
WHITE👏
And being white is a social construct which involves a heck of a lot more than skin color.
Dear Immigrants,
If you're not descended from Europeans (western), you're on the outs with the republicans.
I write the truth, correct? This sect of Iraqi Christians must-a thought they were white, right?
If Iraqi Christians have been arriving here since 1970s and they didn't figure out the republicans were a danger to them, they must-a thought they were honorary white people.
Is there another explanation for this behavior?
And, I don't care how much they disapprove of gay marriage, transgender bathrooms etc. They voted for an obvious ethnoracist when they are obviously not-white. They voted and blessed somebody who was probably wrinkling his nose while he smiled in their face.
They voted for someone who was destined to backhand them across the face and he like...announced his white racism daily.
And they are not white.
If Iraqi Christians had been paying attention to anything but themselves they'd have figured republican ethnoracism toward black and brown beginning in the 1970s when they first started arriving here.
I do understand that a lot of non-white ethnic groups believe America is living up to ideals when they first arrive here. Why wouldn't they. U.S. sells itself well through television and movies. But after you get here, the truth should become clear. And the next generation usually knows better.
Some can watch the news, have empathy for others, and don't wait for the next generation to see how uneven the playing field is.
Still other immigrants come here and think ethnoracism is simply normal --which it is, all over the world. Maybe they go to sleep thinking, don't hate the player hate the game. Maybe they think they'll just play the white supremacy game to win without whining.
Welp, maybe now's the time they realize they've played and lost.
I hope nobody dies. I pray nobody dies. Beyond that I can't make myself care too much. These losers live near a very black Detroit, and can't be but so far from Flint and it's very black water crisis. Yet they can't see ethnoracism as real and of primary importance.
Maybe its just that ethnoracism is a lesser sin to them than the other things they consider sins: like gay marriage, sex change operations, and women's rights.
So maybe the 81% of white Christians that voted for Trump will save them...temporarily. And that assistance will be temporary because white Christians put whiteness ahead of being Christian at least 81% of the time.
And they ain't white.I truly do hope they will not be hurt or killed. But I absolutely can and do hope they are deported. I hope they can be safe SOMEWHERE ELSE because they are the last thing this country needs.
They are the last thing this country needs because we absolutely do not need anymore white supremacists* or white supremacist enablers in this country. Sooo
...because we have to put America first.
Hell, if I could figure out how to deport the alt-Right jackasses that were born here, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
*Remember: A White Supremacist need not be white. The only thing you need to be a white supremacist is to believe that white people are superior.
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