Tuesday, August 24, 2010

2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate/hate?

Seems the country has the cheerleaders chant a little backwards..
2, 4, 6, 8, who do we hate.

Let me count the ways…
We know the country hated Catholics for years. After all why was it against politics to elect a Catholic until John F. Kennedy? Seems it had something to
do with them not listening to the people of our country and would only listen to the Pope. So all of our laws would change. And we would all be turned into
Catholics.

I can remember stories as I was growing up how the Irish were hated. They came over here as legal slaves. They borrowed money to get here, and the expense kept up with everything they needed and were charged for, so therefore couldn’t get out of their jobs or lives. That the Irish were just drunken thieves.

And of course we all know about the blacks being owned and some person’s property. And to even start on the hatred for Native American’s who actually owned the land and were pushed or slaughtered for the Europeans to have land.
And the Japanese that were sent to camps during the war.

There are those who suffered in the United States, the hatred of Jewish people. not even counting the Nazi’s of Germany. The people were afraid of the Jewish owning the country between those of money and those who were lawyers.

And as a child, I was threaten with the fact that I could be kidnapped by the Gypsies…
The Italians because every Italian is mafia... Gays, the way people act you think it was
catchy, if they are friends or touch a gay person.
So the Muslims are just another one in the line of hatred.

I am sure there are many out there, that I have either forgotten or didn’t realize.
Yep, American the land that loves to hate…. Of course we come from Europe and African and etc. and they have done a pretty good job of their own.

Yes, FDR you were right….. we have nothing to fear, but fear itself…

Sadly this is only 15% of Americans but they are the loudest...

3 comments:

Margie's Musings said...

They also hated Native Americans. My great grandmother was Cherokee and traveled the trail of tears. She married my English great grandfather and they were hated enough that they had to move into Indian territory to avoid being hated because he "intermarried" with another race.

Also, the Mormons were hated in the 1800's. They practiced polygamy at that time.

betty said...

It does seem that Americans aren't happy unless they have someone or some group to hate. Pitiful.

Word Tosser said...

Yes, Margie, you are right and I did mention them in the 4th paragraph....
but I did forget the Mormons.

Betty, I think it is fear that brings on hate most of the time... if we don't understand it, we hate it. Sad...