Dear Santa
Addison Independent (VT)
Dear Santa,
It’s been over 50 years years since I wrote you. I imagine you know about my being a Marine in Vietnam and my two divorces, but I have tried to be good.
I know you're busy with all the kids, but, Santa, I'm feeling too old to be this sad at Christmas. Can you help my country be what I thought it was when I was a kid? I want America to be good, not just strong. I want telling the truth to be really important. I want us to respect our friends and our enemies. I want us not to torture people even if they've hurt us. I want us to be safe because people like us, not because they’re afraid of us.
I know I said I didn’t believe in you, Santa, but I don't know what to believe anymore. Please bring these things for Christmas; I don't know where else to turn.
Cliff Adams
Bristol, Vt.
Indeed. Happy Holidays!
Dictionary.com...
hol·i·day
1. A day free from work [...]
2. A religious feast day; a holy day.
3. [...]
[Middle English holidai, holy day, from Old English halig dag : halig, holy; see holy + dag, day; see day.]
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The U.S. Immigration Act of 1924 sanctioned the use of the bogus U.S. Army IQ scores of World War I promoted by eugenic racists) to “scientifically verify” the supposed hereditary mental inferiority of Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Spaniards, and other non Anglo-Saxon Protestant racial and ethnic groups.
The screening was designed to address the fears expressed in Charles Davenport’s influential bestseller of 1911, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, where he prophesied that if unchecked by genetic national security agents, “the population of the United States will, on account of the great influx of blood from South-Eastern Europe, rapidly become darker in pigmentation, smaller in stature, more mercurial, more attached to music and art, more given to crimes of larceny, kidnapping, assault, and vagrancy than were the original English settlers.”
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