When I heard the chants at the Trump rally, “Send Them Back” it harkened back to a time in my own life when as an 8-year-old son of an American Serviceman in Germany, I had to wait by the side of the road to catch the bus to school on base. Every day I heard, “Yankee go home,” “Big Nose Jew” and “Send him back.” I was rocked, punched and spit on by German school kids on their way to school and I had to learn how to fight. Those words hurt and are not fond memories. Can you imagine a white person in our nation being subject to “send them back?” Not now, not ever. Maybe I don’t agree with anything from the “squad,” however we have to be able to dialogue about our differences in a civil and considerate way. The squad and their families and all minority families don’t deserve the hate that is being spewed. Senator Sinema, say something! It is wrong.
Richard Harper
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