Weekend Roundup: Trump Is More Than Anti-Mexican. He's Un-American.

In his recent rant against a 62-year-old Indiana-born Latino judge, Donald Trump reveals that he is more than anti-Mexican. He is un-American. America, after all, is but an idea inhabited by immigrants and their descendant generations. With the obvious exception of the native population, everyone originated from elsewhere. As is often said, America is not about where you came from but where you are going. The American creed is not based on race, ethnicity or religion, but on a shared ideal of tolerance and freedom in the pursuit of happiness. Integrating immigrants as individuals and providing them with the means of upward mobility is what has distinguished America from the old world cultures of Europe. It is the foundation upon which America's celebrated aspirational culture has been built. To suggest otherwise in 2016 -- as Trump has done in questioning whether a U.S.-born judge of Mexican lineage can fairly try the case against Trump University -- is also to deny the mixed races and ethnicities that constitute America's makeup today. U.S. President Barack Obama, a self-described "mongrel" of mixed racial descent, is far more the face of America's future than Trump. America's largest state, California, already has more Latinos than whites, and when the growing Asian population is factored in, it is a "majority-minority" state. As Howard Fineman points out in announcing that The Huffington Post will be starting up a new edition in Mexico City, "there are more immigrants...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - Category: Science Source Type: news