Comes a comment on Facebook that it is a little much to compare the blight of the "illegal aliens" with that of the slaves or women. Let us consider, then. Let us consider. Is it fair to compare the struggles of the paperless Americans with those of blacks, and the early American women, with those of the Jews through the ages, and with any other group that has been unfairly treated?
Like slaves and women, the paperless Americans are not allowed to vote. In what other ways are they the same? True, the paperless Americans are not slaves, although a few of them labor mightily at very little pay, and we do sometimes refer to it as "slave labor." Both were spoken of in derogatory terms, many calling the paperless Americans "illegal aliens," and if we correct those who use that term, they simply say that is what they are, and they object forcefully to our using any other term.
Here's a commonality I find very interesting: We were quick to find the criminal element among the blacks, same as we snap to find criminals among the paperless Americans.
I suppose I could go on, but perhaps my point is made. Many of the same elements of discrimination and oppression the blacks suffered, the paperless Americans also suffer. And women? The paperless Americans suffer worse than they did.
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