"The Irish were the first to endure the scorn
and discrimination later to be inflicted, to some degree at least, on each
successive wave of immigrants by already settled ‘Americans.”—President John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963), A Nation of Immigrants (1964)
My deepest wish is that the ugly un-American instinct
of nativism dies at the hands of an Irish-American leader!
(A tip of my
cap to my longtime friend Rob Polner for bringing this all-too-apropos
quotation to my attention in the Age of Trump.)
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