Ethnic Minorities Quotes
Most people are very surprised that the great Benjamin Franklin was so narrow-minded at one point in his life. The German immigration almost halted during the Seven Years War, and the influx of Germans to Pennsylvania did not resume at the same rate.
Turkey, even a century later, takes great offense at the terms “holocaust” or “genocide” to describe the death of so many Armenians. The censor newspapers and jail academics who even want to have conferences to study the question. This is in great contrast to Germany which faced its genocidal killings squarely and built a society and government structure to never forget it and always focus on preventing a reoccurrence,
This was a statement she made when ruling that an employment website in Israel could not run ads stating that "only Jews would be hired". Discrimination in hiring was against Israel's Prohibition of Discrimination Act.. The defendants in this case were Orthodox Jews and the judge went oiut of her way to not only cite the law but ran counter to the moral and ethical teachings of the Israeili prophets
At that time a number of state legislatures all changed their state voting laws to require citizens who try to register to vote to have documentation of various kinds and or obtain special documentation. These were generally possessed by upper class and educated people but not in as large proportions by lower and working class people. To obtain the documents and register if things like original birth certificates were not possessed, the citizen had to lose much of a day’s work and travel some distance. The burden existed on most lower class people and especially the minorities. The courts nullified some of these discriminatory requirements for voter registration, but many were allowed. The rationale was to prevent voter fraud and yet there were almost no cases of voter fraud in the entire country. While the requirements were racially discriminatory, they were also socioeconomically discriminatory. By coincidence, or perhaps not, every state that added these requirements had a Republican controlled state legislature AND a Republican Governor. Despite the effort to suppress Obama and Democratic voters, the effort backfired. Minorities and especially Blacks were so outraged that Jim Crow voting suppression had returned that they made a huge effort to register and get out the vote and Blacks voted in a much larger proportion than historical and well over 90 percent voted for Obama who won the election handily.
Before the French Revolution, Jews could freely practice their own religion in France but they could not hold citizenship, become professionals, or a host of other privileges of citizenship. Clermont-Tonnerre and other liberals argued that Jews should be given citizenship. The Jacobins--conservative Catholics close to the Papacy--opposed granting citizenship to Jews or Protestants. One argument that the Jacobins gave was that each of these sects would be separate nations within France and not necessarily have French national interest as a priority. Clermont-Tonnerre gave this response which has been the French philosophy about minority citizenship since then. Their thought was that anyone may become a French citizen as an individual but he or she should do so because he/she wants to accept French values and support the French nation. This view worked quite will over the years until the large immigration of Muslims starting in the 1960s where many new immigrants just wanted to live in France and earn a living there, but did not want to identify with French national aspirations or adopt French culture or values. America, had no such demands and those immigrants who tended to identify primarily with their country or culture of origin and not assimilate were allowed to do so, but the American way of life was so attractive that many immigrants did adopt it and even if they did not, their children almost inevitably did. That has not happened in France.
Bulgaria was under the control of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Levski always made it clear that Muslims were welcome in the Bulgaria that would be created after the Revolution. Most Muslims did not believe him, and many could not understand the concept of a nation without the Sultan who was the political AND religious head of Islam the world over. Essentially for many Muslims there can be no such thing as separation of church and state. To two cannot be distinct.
What is facinating is that the same issue was raised by the 11th Century Muslims of the Middle East about allowing white Christians into their lands, Europe had gone throught the Dark Ages and enering into the Middle Ages where Chrsitian Contributions to civilization were minimal, while the Muslims were inventing algebra, astronomy, art, architecture, poetry, and exceleld in medicine. The few Christian scholars studied in Muslim lands if they could. King reveals his own ignorance by such a statement. He never realzied that the Mexican Artist Diego Rivera was not only a great congtributor to the world of art, but to this day major buildings in the United States including LaGuardia Airpoirt display his great murals. Nobel laureates in Literature were many from Hispanic America. That the state of the art of the medical field of plastic surgery has been centered in Brazil for a number of years, how Muslim Nations like Turkey allowed women to vote before teh United States did, and the great conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra is a man from Venesuela. There are thousands of counterexamples to Smith's implication in his question.
