Saber
02-03-2003, 11:17 AM
Stanley Crouch - New York Daily News
Monday, February 3, 2003
We are now hearing of how bad things are in East Africa for those who are fleeing war-torn areas and waiting in refugee camps to immigrate to the United States. Some are eating only once a day; a woman was raped and shot to death; many who were cleared for immigration before Sept. 11 are stuck in terrible conditions, all because of the way our intensified security has backed things up.
I felt empathy for those mostly Muslim people, but I also am opposed to anyone from any Islamic country coming into America for at least another decade. Everything I have seen gives me the impression that America is hated by the majority of those in such countries and that --- as a ''Frontline'' documentary recently showed --- there are even young women who look forward to their children becoming terrorists.
Consequently, I feel none of the oppressive sentimentality that those of Irish, Italian, Jewish, Eastern European, Latin and Caribbean backgrounds have when the subject of immigration is raised.
HERE (http://www.accessatlanta.co m/ajc/epaper/editions/today/opinion_e3e3a16e855e 12bd0096.html)
Monday, February 3, 2003
We are now hearing of how bad things are in East Africa for those who are fleeing war-torn areas and waiting in refugee camps to immigrate to the United States. Some are eating only once a day; a woman was raped and shot to death; many who were cleared for immigration before Sept. 11 are stuck in terrible conditions, all because of the way our intensified security has backed things up.
I felt empathy for those mostly Muslim people, but I also am opposed to anyone from any Islamic country coming into America for at least another decade. Everything I have seen gives me the impression that America is hated by the majority of those in such countries and that --- as a ''Frontline'' documentary recently showed --- there are even young women who look forward to their children becoming terrorists.
Consequently, I feel none of the oppressive sentimentality that those of Irish, Italian, Jewish, Eastern European, Latin and Caribbean backgrounds have when the subject of immigration is raised.
HERE (http://www.accessatlanta.co m/ajc/epaper/editions/today/opinion_e3e3a16e855e 12bd0096.html)