Woodworking: Look at my town’s example, then give newcomers a chance
September 24, 2010 at 7:55 am in River Falls Journal
All the talk and much ado about immigrants, whether we want them to come or don’t want them to come, drives me bonkers. Continue Reading
I really enjoyed this article. Thank you for sharing your story and reminding us that this country is truly a place of immigrants… our heritage as a whole is immigration. Immigration is still vital today, regardless of the country of origin.
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This is clearly a cautionary tale of how easily recent immigrants are exploited by the landed gentry. Ole Hegg, a person of pallor and starving immigrant is virtually incarcerated for eight weeks of hard labor in some kind of absurd agricultural Kafkaesque hell of plowing, threshing and digging to pay for a single ox. The oppressor’s great grandson would have you believe this was an arm’s length transaction in the land of opportunity. It sounds to me like the Wood’s owe their current position of affluence and prosperity to the sweat of that authentic immigrants brow and reparations to the Hegg clan may be in order.
Gaia knows today’s immigrants couldn’t possibly be as resourceful and self sufficient as our great grandparents were 140 years ago. That’s why the White House is acting to protect them with its initiative “Advisory Commission for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders” designed to help them discover the cornucopia of taxpayer funded federal dollars and programs available to select ethnicities for business, agriculture, economic development, etc. Oh, and stay away from the bald guy with the livestock for sale.
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