Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Why did they turn Sol Invictus into a tranny. The French must answer for this
>>18660855The poem was written in 1883 by a jewish woman to raise money for the statue's pedestal. The Know-Nothings who opposed the Ellis Island migration wave had a far stronger claim to America's identity than this statue, no matter how aggressively Hollywood portrayed the Ellis Island immigrant experience as the new Americana.
When America was half a continent and hardly any people sure it made sense to take in garbage people but now we're the number three most populated country in the world and I don't want my Rivers looking more like China and India thank you very much
>>18660855Kino
>>18660922By 1853 the entire current-day contigous United States was under full US control so practically America was already a continent. Also America was already the 4th most-populated country in the world in the 1880's.
>>18660896In hindsight, taking the dregs of every other country was not, in fact, a wise choice
>>18660896pretending hollywood isnt the mouthpiece is pretty tacky as far as fabricated dichotomies go. Matter of fact pretending all of you arent on the same side playing pretend isnt worth the expenditure of my time. Can you think outside their categories? Do any of you think for yourselves?
>a very expensive gift from the French encouraging Americans to be friendly towards foreigners coming from east, and to adopt current french liberte ideologyhmmmmm why would they possibly do that hhmmmmm
>>18661522the poem was added on the pedestal 15 years after the statue was erected. French never intended for the statue to be a symbol of welcoming immigrants into America.
>>18660855Needs do change over time. It was a great and successful slogan at the time though.
>>18660855prefer this one."The rays from this beacon, lighting this gateway to the continent, will welcome the poor and the persecuted with the hope and promise of homes and citizenship. It will teach them that there is room and brotherhood for all who will support our institutions and aid in our development; but that those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone our laws are aliens and enemies forever."
