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Re: A shock
and surreal. You would think there would be some common law citizenship that would cover such cases but, in the US, reason does not prevail.
posted by
cpklapper
on August 26, 2010 at 11:34 AM
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Great! It reminded me of a story I saw on the news yesterday that I wondered how it could be. A man in his eighties suddenly found out, after serving in WWII in the USA military service and living all of his life as a good USA citizen, voting and everything, that he was indeed not a USA citizen. Apparently he was born in Canada and brought to the US as a child. What a shock that would be to a person.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM
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beautiful and intellectual....
yes, i did enjoy and do agree and it is a poem that everyone should read :)
posted by
Tzippy
on August 24, 2010 at 11:13 PM
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Re: Every American should read this poem and ponder it.
Thank you for the wonderful endorsement. I hope the members of Blogit, at least, will follow your advice.
posted by
cpklapper
on August 24, 2010 at 7:25 PM
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Every American should read this poem and ponder it.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 24, 2010 at 5:52 PM
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Thanks for reading, but I was not suggesting that we all return to Africa. Rather, I was lamenting that there is nothing in America like the Hebrew notion of a home to which one returns and to which one's ownership is restored on the day of Jubilee. Also missing from the American landscape are the other components of Jubilee: no debts with interest among citizens, a single law for all on the land, etc. America has an extremely contorted notion of citizenship as evidenced by the status of what is left of the native tribes, the tenuous nature of residence brought by mortgages and foreclosures, and so on.
posted by
cpklapper
on August 24, 2010 at 8:26 AM
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Hi Sir as we all originally came from the same place, I suppose a few got lost on the way. They will all turn up eventually probably all looking the same in a few million years. Nice work.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 24, 2010 at 7:18 AM
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Re: Jubilee
Thanks for the encouragement,
csherloc !
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on August 24, 2010 at 6:49 AM
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Jubilee
One day we may have an America, exactly as you wished it to be in this poem.
posted by
csherloc
on August 24, 2010 at 5:36 AM
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