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Asylum Seekers Versus Black Americans

Bren Kelly
14 min readMay 14, 2023

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Title 42 Versus Title 6: Who’s Gets First Dibs?

America’s Dilemma: Internal Asylum Seekers Versus the Wolf
America’s Dilemma: Internal Asylum Seekers Versus the Wolf [Dr. Suess Cartoon from 1942— yes that Dr. Suess! — on American First 1915–1945 Political Slogan of the right-wing to recognition of the internal issue of systemically displaced black Americans (and a latino) in 1977 when journalism recognized black poverty as a legitimate issue for investigation and discussion]

Sorry, I must pose these questions as I’m looking for answers. So, I hope to hear from you, especially if you are an American Descendant of Slaves. The questions revolve around asylum seekers and where my liberalist or humanistic sentiments lie and who should be helped first.

When delving into some weeds on this asylum issue, I thought, where should our sentiments lie? That is, it appears there is less of deep division about illegal immigrants flooding the Southern boarder but only a hardened in indifference with it comes to the force inward “asylum seeking” black Americans faced in the 20th century.

They travelled through the late 1800 and the 1900s through the country seeking “shelter,” tricked by employers seeking lower wage workers than white illegal immigrants. They were driven out of towns in their travels to that better life by rocks, anger, and violence of whites who would not let them settle, even for one night, in “their” towns. They were even “forced” by the government to fill jobs in the absence of whites or when there were not enough whites as a kind of substitute labor force.

The government did not allow black Americans in the South to unionize as they did whites in the North, which stopped Southern agricultural and domestic black Americans…

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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