Friday, August 28, 2015

People aren't illegal & America is far from Christian

Imagine if someone told you that you can't move to another state to get a job. That's exactly what the U.S. is telling our neighbors in Mexico. Why?  Because we have and have always had an immigration policy rooted in white supremacy and based on the ridiculous notion that country borders are somehow where human rights end. Borders established by theft, pillaging, rape, and slavery, I might add. I'm a radical. I don't believe it is moral in the slightest to tell people they cannot move or work. Documentation be damned (my ancestors didn't have it, I assure you!).  

We have not loved God with our whole hearts. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. Not in the slightest. Not our citizenry. Not our neighbors in other countries. Like Cain of old, we have defiantly shook our fist at the God of the exiles and the strangers and demanded of God "are we our brothers' keepers?!"  God answered emphatically "yes" and we went on in our shameful denigration of our neighbors, all the while calling ourselves a "Christian nation."  We ought to be ashamed and broken hearted as a people over this. And we ought to show works meet for repentance by shaming any politician getting his political points by appealing to a racist, white supremacist policy...Trump...and any politician demanding we put walls up that are eerie reminders of the Berlin Wall but in our own nation...almost every GOP politician...and by voting for a just and moral free immigration policy and demanding our representatives get it done. 

People are not illegal.

No comments:

Post a Comment