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John Kelly said immigrants could not assimilate well so a genealogist dug up the Kellys family historyDOMINIQUE JACKSON
11 MAY 2018 AT 23:14 ET
White House chief of staff John Kelly, made highly offensive comments about immigrants during an interview with National Public Radio on Friday.
Kelly said immigrants are: not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society.
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Jennifer Mendelsohn, looked up Kellys ancestry to prove to him and the rest of America that we all come from immigrants. Mendelsohn found out through a 1900 census bureau that Kellys great grandfather lived in America undocumented for 18 years and could not read, write, or speak English.
She revealed her findings on Twitter:
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/john-kelly-belittled-immigrants-skills-said-not-assimilate-well-genealogist-proved-wrong/
Girard442
(6,072 posts)"He has a family? Well, there goes my spore theory."
pnwest
(3,266 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)finds its way to him - if he doesnt already know his own family history.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)After at least a decade here, with advantages no one else has with regard to tutoring, etc., her English is most kindly described as "halting," and she lives an isolated life, her son and her parents apparently her only companions. She is, again apparently, so unaware of current American life that when she's required to make a public presentation, she has to rely on copying the Obamas. What value has she added to American culture? How has she become a contributing member of society?
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)their corruption to the Dark Side is complete
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Yeah General, no white person should get righteous about immigrants. About 99% of us have ancestors who dived under the wire and didn't have a command of English.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)about times square billboard or those large type screens at ballgames. If I had a million bucks, I'd pay for it. His [trump, pence, gop party] hatred is not of all immigrants...it's for Black, Hispanic, Asian, Muslim immigrants and refugees.
KG
(28,751 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)black and brown immigrants don't assimilate well.
spooky3
(34,452 posts)He surely has been out and about in the DC area, where I live. Recent immigrants here, generally, are very hardworking and have assimilated just fine, even those with lesser education, who are quite busy as painters, electricians, builders, etc., etc. Try looking around with open eyes, General.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Each group doesn't like the next group and wishes to shut the door on them and future groups.
Native Americans did not like being invaded by the English, French and Spanish.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Even the truest of American natives didn't (and still don't) "assimilate" well with the Caucasian invaders. To this day, we have more respected treaties with nations that don't deserve a DIME of my taxes - and yet our native American populations are STILL being driven farther and farther into niche plots of nothingness.
My paternal grandad came to the USA in 1916 - to save his own butt from the carnage of WW1.
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)and felt they were bringing crime, murder, and disease, and were not even considered white back than. From his last name, he's probably Irish too. And there was a time when "No Irish Need Apply" was a thing. And then they claimed it was a self-fulfilling prophecy where they blocked the Italians and Irish out of honest jobs so some had to turn to crime just to feed their kids.
It should be noted that a lot of immigrants and children of immigrants have served in our armed forces. Which are currently around 40% non-white. Kelly may have been around the mostly white officers for most of his career but many of the enlisted personnel serving are not white.
justgamma
(3,665 posts)I'm pretty sure that describes the Cons to a tee. They just don't believe in "our modern society" so they are trying desperately to take us back in time.