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richardmurray

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  22. @frankster

     

    On 3/30/2026 at 10:17 PM, frankster said:

    Abolish the need for Visas to cross International Borders.....Advocate for the Right To freely Travel the Globe as a Basic and Foundamental Human Right.

     

    Travel is Education

    thank you... That is very radical for modernity. I admit I wasn't expecting a reply like this... The kind of travel you refer to was how it was in ancient times. In ancient times, only fortified places had walls, people could travel right outside walled areas and towns without walls would exist aside of major roads. Bandits and raiders existed but the level of traffic, fiscal traffic in the past, shows most people traveled wise enough to not be bothered by bandits or raiders. Now some people travel riskily and well...  The fear of the stranger, the other, is high in humanity , and not for nothing, for an honest reason. White europeans in their global conquests taught most of humanity to fear the stranger , fear the other, fear variances because if you don't fear and you trust, you end up like the rest of humanity not white european that at one time not to  long ago was completely enslaved to white europeans in some form or fashion.  So, the question is, how do you get a majority in humanity to trust in strange humans or have faith in a general goodness in humanity? 

     

     

    @aka Contrarian

    On 4/3/2026 at 10:45 AM, aka Contrarian said:

    I've never given the immigration issue a whole lot of thought probably because it has never directly impacted on my life.

    But I do agree that criminal illegal  immigrants should be deported back to where they came from. And - that anyone born in this country is automatically an American citizen.

     

    I'm not a particularly patriotic person, and I'm always amused at how black people can chronically complain about racism, and express so little regard for their white countrymen yet so resolutely declare their love for this country.

     

    As somebody famous, Winston Churchill(?), once said: "America is the worst, most flawed country in the world... except for all the others."

     That sentiment kinda resonated with me.

    thank you. The usa is the only government in humanity that allows citizenship just because you are born in it. May I ask what is your reasoning for that immigration legal position? does it have legal precedent or is it a heritage aspect, or a culture you feel warranted? 

     

    Your second point is arguably the great challenge of Black Descended of Enslaved people in any country in the american continent, barring haiti. You know like me , and anybody else commenting in this post that our forebears were enslaved in every country in the american continent, and forms of enslavement existed like jim crow in each country in the american continent, and msot of our forebears had a well earned dislike... hatred or whites or these lands for the misery of the black collective in any of them...but, as humans are human, over time black DOSers in the american continent want like all humans a home. Most had no money or resources to leave wherever they were in the american continent, so that grew the uncommon but honest, hateful citizenship you mention. 

    Black DOSers will never be able to honestly say as a group , barring haiti, any country in the american continent has  ever been a place where most black people in it were happy. To reword for Black DOSers unhappiness side citizenship are hand in hand in most governments in the usa, a warranted reality. 

    I get your amusement, how can a person say they love a place that they clearly don't love, but fate has put Black DOSers in that position to be able to say that.

     

     

     

     

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