Happy to Be Here - Welcome to All

[GoodWitch58]

I love this artist's work and her political statement:

‘I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door’ - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com

 

[Bob]

wonderfully done.....listen, you can hear the loons....they want to post, but they are ashamed of their heritage

 

[Mermaid]

I could have done without the Europe bashing. Yes, the Europeans (and the Vikings before them :roll weren't angels; quite the opposite in many cases. But the evil, nasty, pestilent Europeans whom the artist obviously views as hostile invaders are the very same people who made America what it is today. Had they not come, would there be a United States of America? NO. They were our first immigrants.

The artist moans and groans and blatantly infers that the US is so unfair to all its modern day immigrants and goes so far as to say What if Irving Berlin had been treated the same way, would we now enjoy his wonderful music? That's comparing apples to oranges. The 19th century US was a far different place and those immigrants coming legally--and documented legally on Ellis Island as were Irving Berlin's Russian Jewish family--are not the same as the immigrants slipping in under the wire these days. Literally and figuratively. I'm sure the author isn't bewailing the fate of immigrants like my husband who came in with a proper Green Card and studied hard to become an American, is she?

It's amusing that the artist has such selective vision about what kind of immigrant is deserving of her sympathy.