Doc Dutch (12-04-2020)
Doc Dutch (12-04-2020)
Doc Dutch (12-05-2020)
I think this is a silly way of thinking. People with power (normally they are very rich, wherever they live or whatever 'national' labels they carry) always try to divide the mugs into competing gangs so that they can rob them better. Where I lived as a boy, everyone worshiped Paul Robeson, a brilliant sportsman, actor, singer and thinker, and they did so rightly, because he was about our only friend at the time. We had lots of Italians keeping cafes in these valleys, and lots of prisoners settled when they were let out after the War, and our 'colony' in Argentina has lots of Italians learning 'Welsh'; where I was brought up later there had been a Polish war hospital, and there were masses of Poles and Ukrainians there: we had some living in our flat, very nice people - and we all remembered the heroic Polish Battle-of-Britain pilots back then. Everyone thought the Russians the bravest people on earth because they beat Hitler. When I was in the Airforce later I ended up in Bomber Command Education, and my best friends were a West Indian and a Jew. The real historical enemy for us are the English, but I have masses of English friends and my Wife comes from Yorkshire. Irish troops were used to stop our attempt to set up democracy during the March on Newport, but I've spent a great deal of my time over there and enjoyed it (they, of course, were the equivalent of your Mexicans now back then, strikebreaking and so on). As to immigrants, in my view be bosses will always use them to divide us while working hard to see they come in and reduce wages. I begin to see where you are coming from, but you are muddled: working people have the same interests in the long run, everywhere, and every time we forget that thing we get robbed ragged.
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