Reminder that we do NOT live in "unprecedented" times.
On this day on Feb. 5, 1917, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 to block “undesirable” immigrants. That meant a ban on Asian, Mexician, and Mediterranean migrants, literacy tests, new taxes, & excluded the poor, disabled, & criminalized.
Meanwhile white European migrants were welcomed with open arms & given land via Homestead Act.
This racist law was finally repealed in 1952.
Trump wants to revive this fascism. Do not let him.
I was grateful to be corrected by activists when I said what a terrible historical time this is. It might be the worst historical time *for me* but it pales in comparison to the way BIPOC folx have been treated here for centuries.
Gladly will I learn.
Gladly will I teach.
(Paraphrase from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales)
@kimlockhartga @QasimRashid there is a caveat, brought to you by the 1975 Puerto Rican amendment to the Voting Rights Act.
my parents were part of this struggle. that’s how they met. my stepfather was one of the co-authors.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Kim Possible 
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