billp@azure.UUCP (Bill Pfeifer) (05/10/84)
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:Evan Kane quotes Emma Lazarus'poem:
:
:>> "Give me your tired, your poor,
:>> Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
:>> The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
:>> Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
:>> I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
:>>
:>> Inscription on the Statue of Liberty,
:
:Speaking as an immigrant to the United States (from England via
:Canada), I want to say that I dislike this poem intensely. I am
:not "wretched refuse" nor a "huddled mass." I always feel insulted
:by this poem.
: John Hobson
: AT&T Bell Labs--Naperville, IL
: ihnp4!iwpba!amigo (NOTE TEMPORARY MACHINE)
Speaking as an immigrant to the United States (from Germany), I want to say
that I like this poem. Where does it say that if you immigrate to the US,
you necessarily must be a member of one or more of those categories?
Some people sure seem to try very hard to feel insulted where no insult is
intended.
Apologies for posting to so many news groups, but that's where the original
note was posted.
Bill Pfeifer
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