MINORITIES, MAJORITIES, AND AMERICA

Two hundred and fifty thousand people hear Martin Luther King, Jr.'s eloquent speech: "I have a Dream" in Washington in 1963. Public pinion polls show that most Americans favor some sort of racial equality. Two weeks later, four little black girls are killed when a bomb exploded in a Birmingham church. (Just this past week, the alleged perpetrators, Klansmen, were found "guilty".)

Homosexuals have frequently found a haven for their lifestyle in San Francisco's liberal government. Then, a "fag-hater" former council member shoots and kills San Francisco's mayor and the city's ding gay activist, Harvey Milk.

In Los Angeles, a black teen-ager shoots and kills a Korean grocer, giving as an excuse: "They always cheat us."

California's child labor laws are the least enforced in the nation, mainly because the agriculture lobby insists that migrant workers need their children to help in the fields.

Just this week, New Jersey's Lieutenant Governor resigned because he had lied to investigators about racial profiling by the state police. A Los Angeles City legislator, black, was stopped by Beverly Hills police, made to get out of his expensive, and questioned what he was doing in that vicinity.

Vietnamese shrimp fishermen in Corpus Christi, Texas, had their boats burned by "Americans" who did not want toe competition from "foreigners" willing to wo

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ation. In hi-tech industry, where, again Asians come to this country, recruited by Silicon Valley firms, because there seems to be a shortage of "Americans" who can do the creative work. In an old skit done by an English quartet of comedians, "Beyond the Fringe", the subject of Emma Lazarus' poem on the statue of Liberty was discussed. "It reads 'Give me your tired your pooraWell, everybody did!" Of course, sociologists will point out somewhat smugly that every wave of immigrants faced difficulties in assimilating -- the Irish, the Italians, the Polish. Each wave was accused of lowering the standards of life, and the average wages. However, these groups that came in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries were whites, who could soon move up and become part of the white majority. When Latinos arrive, when Asians come, when people of color come from Caribbean islands or Africa for economic reasons, they stand apart. Sad to say, their educational backgrounds are limited, making many of these new arrivals subject to the lowest-paying wage scales. There have even been cases of homosexuals being denied visas to come to America, and some who have come on a visitor's visa, see their visas not renewed, even if they have se
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