Who Are You Calling Names?

This article is fascinating. This quote from the article sums up the whole point: "Blaming immigrant workers for our economic catastrophe is like blaming shrimpers for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico" - - Donna Poisl

by Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO

"Wop." "Hunkie." "Polack." "Kike."

When I was a kid growing up in Nemacolin, Pa., those are some of the slurs people used for us.

Why? Because our parents or grandparents came to this country from somewhere else, fleeing poverty and war, seeking opportunity and hope. As a kid, every person I knew who was older than 50 spoke broken English.

Those names hurt. But they also determined almost everything about us -- where we would live, where we would worship, where we would go to school, where we could work.
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