1/ Trump's cruelty 2 immigrants is made possible by a racist dehumanization he stoked when he said Mexico 'isn't sending their best.' But the implicit assumption here, totally false of course, is that Europe DID. No y'all: our ancestors were the losers of Europe. Be clear...
2/ The winners didn't get on the boat. Winners don't leave the place where they're winning. Migration is for the losers, and there is NO shame in that. Not when our Scottish or Irish ancestors did it, not when Italians did, and not when Salvadorans do today...
3. They are motivated by the same basic things all migrants, including white folks' ancestors, were motivated by. And the fact that so many can't see that is because of internalized white supremacy, plain and simple, and a phony origin story rooted in the same.../END
