Landing in 1831 in the port of New York, the young Tocqueville remains amazed by the dynamism of the people who were erecting a new nation. What Withman calls the teeming nation of nations. Above all else is surprised by the spirit of equality that permeated the lives and customs of the people. He remembered
JFKenndy in a pamphlet in 1957 that immigration is going to be also published by us Donzelli for having been partially anticipated by the Republic today. This' that Tocqueville saw, Kennedy writes, was a society of immigrants who had begun a new life on an equal footing.
Kennedy And those are the premises of the new frontier of his American dream.
We know for many that dream was a nightmare, even without mentioning the slow relentless destruction of the natives. How many tragedies of marginalization and exclusion have been consumed in the light of that radiant vision: Indian, Chinese, Mexican. Kennedy cites a New York newspaper that writes about the Italian immigration: "The floodgates have opened, the bars down the sewer .. unstopped. The dregs Immigration is pouring on our shores. Of mud from the tanks as well, the scum of the third class is filled in our country ... "
We have forgotten all this, the odyssey of our emigrants, to eradicate the suffering, separation and oblivion of suffering families, suffering . The exciting text
Kennedy says "the immigration laws should be generous, should be fair, should be flexible. With similar laws in the world and we can look to our past with clean hands and clear conscience. "
Our country today can not have a clear conscience, either to the past of her citizens or their future.
Some time ago I spoke of compassion, a sharing of the pain so effectively describes Kennedy. A feeling of participation must not only be aimed at those who driven by despair arrive in our country, but also for generations to come, which fear, suspicion, mistrust, racism threaten to erode the future to affect the expectations of freedom, undermine the perception of dignity.
why I said that the opposition to repressive measures, unfair and inflexible became a necessary exercise of good citizenship.
and "compassion", that compassion must find solutions and social policies and position on a permanent a culture of pluralism and respect for the principles of rights, of the possibility of the differences in freedom, to give completeness to democracy.
the suffering of those who leave, taking with him memories and traditions, which often find it hard to perpetuate that escape hunger and concrete threats that threaten the existence, to address other equally terrible, can not be answered with the culture of control, with the militarization cities, with indiscriminate repression to defend the territories of the privilege, with the forced passage of the welfare state to the state prosecution. To start this
need information and cultural processes, which also help to promote the legal guarantees of rights of freedom and social and political rights. To guide public opinion towards the affirmation of traditional titles and new "entitlement": those of foreign migrants, but also the right environment, water, to not be marginalized for sexual preferences and options. In essence, the right to peace, justice, fairness, dignity
And also entitled to a welfare state, where the left has been guilty failure, the perverse effects of playing party politics and welfarism, and that today we pay with the dismantling of the apparatus of the social system, subordinated to the logic of the market competitive and discriminatory.
It would take just one left active on these issues. Able to look and to protect the expectation of "future", to counter the phenomenon of deculturation, and eradication of deterritorialization that our hegemony of developed countries has forced the countries of starvation and the masses of immigrants pouring into our borders.
would be obliged to do so: the renunciation of leadership on these issues, that is, we condemn the threat of insecurity to the fear for the future, theirs and ours, which weighs on the mortgage on the outrageous hope. We must find the courage of a creative policy that resists political and economic discrimination in the name of the complexity of the world, its variety, its beauty and power evolutiva.L 'alternative may be uncertainty and fear.
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