A Fool's Paradise

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Lucy Bennett. A Fool's Paradise

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A Fool's Paradise

Lucy Bennett

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Americans sing “This land is my land. This land is your land.” But most likely, they are unaware of what they are saying. If this land is both your land and my land, why don’t you want me here? You might occupy the land, but this land is neither yours nor mine. If the land was yours, let me ask these questions, “When you buy a portion of land, pay your hard-earn money for it, you have to take care of the land. Why is it that you have to pay property tax to the government? Is the government coming on your property to cut the grass, water your produce, or build you a house?” Let me remind that we are only occupiers of God’s land; and therefore, we have no right, as long as the law is followed, to tell anyone that they are not welcome in a country.

Americans travel to different countries every day. Some travel to countries where I would dear not to go, countries where they can expect violence against them at any time, yet they choose to go. I doubt that these traveling Americans ever hear the words, “Go back to where you came from.” The ignorance and stupidity that exist among Americans with “their claim to fame” of America being for white people only is as ignorant as ignorance comes.

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