<p><strong>“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” – Maya Angelou </strong></p><p><strong>“As long as there is racial privilege, racism will never end.” – Wayne </strong></p><p><strong>Gerard Trotman </strong></p><p><strong>“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin </strong></p><p><strong>“Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial </strong></p><p><strong>appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, </strong></p><p><strong>and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” – John Lewis </strong></p><p><strong>COLUMBIA versus COLUMBUS </strong></p><p>• <strong>90% of the 14,000 workers on the Central Pacific were Chinese </strong><br>• <strong>By 1880 over 100,000 </strong></p><p><strong>Chinese residents in the US </strong></p><p><strong>YELLOW PERIL </strong></p><p><a href="/goto?url=https://iexaminer.org/yellow-peril-documents-historical-manifestations-of-oriental-phobia/" target="_blank">https://iexamine</a><a href="/goto?url=https://iexaminer.org/yellow-peril-documents-historical-manifestations-of-oriental-phobia/" target="_blank">r</a><a href="/goto?url=https://iexaminer.org/yellow-peril-documents-historical-manifestations-of-oriental-phobia/" target="_blank">.</a><a href="/goto?url=https://iexaminer.org/yellow-peril-documents-historical-manifestations-of-oriental-phobia/" target="_blank">org/yellow-peril-documents-historical-manifestations-of-oriental-phobia/ </a></p><p><a href="/goto?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/california-today-chinese-railroad-workers.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/california-today-chinese-railroad-workers.html </a></p><p><strong>BACKGROUND FOR USA IMMIGRATION POLICIES </strong></p><p>• 1790 – Nationality and Citizenship </p><p>• 1803 – No Immigration of any FREE “Negro, mulatto, or other persons of color” </p><p>• 1848 – If we annex your territory and you remain living on it, you are a citizen • 1849 – Legislate and enforce immigration is a FEDERAL Power, not State or Local • 1854 – Negroes, Native Americans, and now Chinese may not testify against whites </p><p><strong>GERMAN IMMIGRATION </strong></p><p><a href="/goto?url=https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/FT_15.09.28_ImmigationMapsGIF.gif?w=640" target="_blank">https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/FT_15.09.28_ImmigationMapsGIF.gif?w=640 </a></p><p><strong>TO LINCOLN’S CREDIT </strong></p><p><strong>CIVIL WAR IMMIGRATION POLICIES </strong></p><p>• 1862 – CIVIL WAR LEGISLATION ABOUT IMMIGRATION </p><p>• Message to Congress December 8, 1863 </p><p>• 1864 – INDENTURED SERVITUDE </p><p><strong>REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM 1864 </strong></p><p><strong>“That foreign immigration, which in the past has </strong></p><p><strong>added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of nations, should be </strong></p><p><strong>fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.” </strong></p><p><a href="/goto?url=https://www.lincolncottage.org/lincolns-forgotten-act-to-encourage-immigration/" target="_blank">https://www.lincolncottage.org/lincolns-forgotten-act-to-encourage-immigration/ </a></p><p><strong>NEW WAVES OF IMMIGRATION and </strong><br><strong>IMMIGRATION POLICY </strong></p><p>• During the 1870’s every Midwest state had an Immigration Board </p><p>• The South welcomed immigrants who were “<strong>pure of white, Protestant society</strong>.” </p><p>• 1866 is the founding of the KKK </p><p><strong>IMMIGRATION POLICIES DURING THE BUILDING OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD </strong></p><p>• 1868 Burlingame Treaty </p><p>• 1870 The Naturalization Act </p><p><strong>How soon we forget… </strong><br><strong>ANTI-CHINESE SENTIMENTS GROW IN AMERICA </strong></p><p>• 1875 PAGE LAW • 1875 CHY LUNG VS FREEMAN • 1880 ANGELL TREATY </p><p><strong>“The Chinese are inferior to any race God ever made. …These people have got the perfection of crimes of 4,000 </strong></p><p><strong>years. ...I&nbsp;believe the Chinese have no souls to save, and if </strong></p><p><strong>they have, they are not worth saving. </strong></p><p><strong>Denis Kearney </strong></p>