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SunSeeker

(51,378 posts)
Sat Aug 17, 2019, 02:09 PM Aug 2019

Statue of Liberty poet Emma Lazarus descended from BRAZILIAN Jewish refugees.

As pointed out on AM Joy this morning, it was wrong, on so many levels, for Trump's immigration chief Ken Cuccinelli to claim that Emma Lazarus was referring to European immigrants in her poem etched on the Statue of Liberty to "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."

Surely Emma Lazarus had countries below our southern border in her mind when she wrote those famous words, being herself descended from Brazilian refugees. She descended from Jews who arrived in New Amsterdam (New York) fleeing the Inquisition from their settlement of Recife, Brazil. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lazarus

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Statue of Liberty poet Emma Lazarus descended from BRAZILIAN Jewish refugees. (Original Post) SunSeeker Aug 2019 OP
Off to the greatest page malaise Aug 2019 #1
What say you now, Cuc? Leghorn21 Aug 2019 #2
More things I never knew. brer cat Aug 2019 #3

brer cat

(24,402 posts)
3. More things I never knew.
Sat Aug 17, 2019, 02:59 PM
Aug 2019

Thanks for an informative post, SunSeeker. It gives needed perspective to her poem.

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