Posted by
Stakeholder on Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:09:24 PM
Is social responsibility the same as "real" social justice - not the "we shall overcome" opportunist -okay? Can one act in a socially responsible fashion without working towards real justice (consciously or otherwise)? And if these two are not interchangeable or inextricably linked, how does one effect the other?
It would certainly seem that the latter cannot exist without the former, and that the former can be highly correlated with the latter. To give this philosophical query an inflammatory edge, can we as Americans achieve social justice without explicitly and concretely embracing the idea of and committing to real justice? NO!
For many, this may be a new term. And, no doubt, this term may be perceived by a significant subset of readers of this blog as "politically correct" jargon embraced by bleeding-heart liberals – don’t worry I am not.
Our present difficulty in having real justice active in America is because we have not enforced our borders or funded or taught clearly the value of real social investment (people who live totally here and not just here in body but a heart that waves a flag of another country!). The immigration reform of the mid 80’s sounded good but with nothing enforced the problem became worse... and so we are at it again 2007 style.
Why reform then again: With our current situation we are developing a culture we cannot afford to have in America, a caste system or worse a slave issue that is happening with women and children used in human trafficking (let me quickly state: if those in power use this issue to divide they are guilty of wanting a caste system for their selfish schemes for power - again.) . Also the Church is too silent on this issue - the Evangelical Church is deafly silent!
When this new reform happens and some form of it will, there will be a need for action on the part of people - and most of all the Church... to make sure that people who aren’t citizen become one: one... who knows English well, gets the education they need to succeed, invests into our country and understands our core, become an American like the millions of others in previous generation. TO do anything less would be injustice for all and a continuance of the slave welfare status of fearful employees and human trafficking.
If you think real juctice isn't necessary go to other countries like Europe for example and really look at what is going on. That region of the world is seriously in danger of ruin because of the underground culture of 2nd and 3rd world people who are nothing but servants and in some cases slaves. OR go to the Arab countries of Sudan, Saudi Arabia … they have slaves from captured people from Africa and Asia… is that what we want or is America really the last great hope against the darkness that surrounds us. A real America wants Real Justice… Real value of others… real leaders... with real active border inforcement - and citzens who invest in the future of America.
If you don't agree - I'm sorry for your narrow unrealistic eye sight.
Read this from T.R. ROOSEVELT - It is important for our day also!
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, Mexican-Americans... each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans/Latin American/Mexican/Asian of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City 12 October 1915