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So, either the Founders were a bunch of racist old white men and slave owners, or they were enlightened progressives that welcomed diversity.
Can't have it both ways.
https://twitter.com/FrankDeScushin/status/1776322150867022289
Lazarus began to advocate on behalf of indigent Jewish immigrants. She helped establish the Hebrew Technical Institute in New York to provide vocational training to assist destitute Jewish immigrants to become self-supporting. Lazarus volunteered as well in the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society employment bureau, which she eventually criticized its organization. In 1883, she founded the Society for the Improvement and Colonization of East European Jews.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lazarus
Lol. I knew they would quote that Ezra Lazurus poem as if it was written into the Constitution.