PRAGER: Who Are The Luckiest Jews, Blacks And Latinos?

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The Daily Wire

Dennis Prager

March 17, 2018

At The City College of New York in the late 1930s, my father, an Orthodox Jew, wrote his senior class thesis on anti-Semitism in America. He delineated common realities of the era, such as Jews' admission to law firms, country clubs and colleges being denied or restricted, and various other manifestations of popular and institutional anti-Semitism.

Yet he taught his two sons — my older brother and me — to believe that we, as Americans, were the luckiest Jews in Jewish history.

 

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Likewise, despite the existence of racists and racism in America, black Americans are among the luckiest blacks in the world. A distinguished black journalist, Keith Richburg of the Washington Post, fully acknowledged the horror and cruelties of slavery. Nevertheless, he thanked God his ancestors made it possible for him to be born and live in America, not Africa. After covering Africa for the Washington Post, Richburg put it this way in his newspaper: "Let me drop the charade and put it as simply as I can: There but for the grace of God go I.

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And what about Latin Americans? Like American Jews and American blacks, they are among the luckiest Latinos in the world. How could they or anyone else deny this given the fact that tens of millions of Latin Americans left their families, friends, culture, language and very homes to live in America? And given the fact that tens of millions more ache to do the same? What kind of lie must a person embrace to flee to a peaceful, prosperous country whose people treat him generously and beautifully and not think he is lucky to live there?

And, finally, there are the many white Americans — people born and raised in America, many of whose ancestors also fled war, poverty and oppression in Europe — who not only deny how lucky they are to live America but also vilify the founders of America who made their blessed life possible. Their attitude transcends mere lying; it enters the realm of pathology.

 

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As a young "skull full of mush" (H/T Rush!) my parents told often how lucky I was to be born in America.

 

As an aside....Someone has to be the 800 LBS gorilla in the world, and at the top of the food chain. I think the world is a much better place if it is Us...America, as opposed to China...Brazil....(god forbid) France. Now this comes at a price..........

13 Billion Dollars

$21,000,000

$57,000,000

$70,000 per unit.