My folks floated over the pond with the cattle down below in steerage. One was an indentured servant, another a prison guard, others were among an army of Irish who helped drive the Native people off the Mississippi River near Dubuque to claim the lead mines. Still another branch settled the sloughs around Emmetsburg about the time the last Dakota were being driven out.
There’s a reason Art Cullen is a Pulitzer winner: He tells the truth about his community and by doing so tells the truth about the world. Thanks, Art, for holding the politicians and propagandists feet to the fire. Journalism needs more truth tellers like you.
Amen, Art! The Shrecks (then called Schrocks) came over as two brothers who literally ran out the backdoor as the Kaiser's conscription agents were knocking on the front and did not stop until they reached Galena. Yes, draft-dodgers!
I once heard or read something to the effect: Ideas are like vapors that become liquid when we speak. They only become solid in writting. Art, your ideas are as solid as a rock!!!!
I know your campaigning on the wonders of diversity got you the Pulitzer and the book deal, Art. But studies have shown homogenous communities are happier and more productive but the very thought of homogenous causes the Left to lose their minds. But we’re past that now. Biden’s open border policy guarantees cheap labor forever. Comfortable white folks getting the yard work done cheap, low wage exploitable, sometime child labor working in tough conditions. The white middle class (like you) able to domestic help just like the rich folks. IBP is a corporate outlaw who built a new plant in Fort Dodge and abandoned it six years later to break the union that paid workers a living wage. The outlaws moved to Storm Lake. Storm Lake loves outlaws, judging by your writing over the years.
Maybe sometime you could write about the dark side of the self serving diversity religion you and the comfortable, seriously Caucasian left has been worshipping all these years. Maybe take some responsibility for the damage and pain you’ve caused over the years.
Thanks for an often-ignored history lesson. Well put!
Beautiful, but everything I have read is that immigrants lead much more lawful lives than those born here--the difference is staggering, immigrants are goody two shoes compared to those born here. Here's the story: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminalization-immigration-united-states
There’s a reason Art Cullen is a Pulitzer winner: He tells the truth about his community and by doing so tells the truth about the world. Thanks, Art, for holding the politicians and propagandists feet to the fire. Journalism needs more truth tellers like you.
Thank you for stating it better than I can.
We’re all immigrants, just a few generations after the bravest ones.
I wish your message was spread by loud speakers all over this country!
This piece earns so many “”Amens”.
Amen, Art! The Shrecks (then called Schrocks) came over as two brothers who literally ran out the backdoor as the Kaiser's conscription agents were knocking on the front and did not stop until they reached Galena. Yes, draft-dodgers!
I once heard or read something to the effect: Ideas are like vapors that become liquid when we speak. They only become solid in writting. Art, your ideas are as solid as a rock!!!!
Geez, Art. This is one of your best efforts yet. The "Spiritual Desert" , for better or worse, served you well.
Craig Bartels is right.
I know your campaigning on the wonders of diversity got you the Pulitzer and the book deal, Art. But studies have shown homogenous communities are happier and more productive but the very thought of homogenous causes the Left to lose their minds. But we’re past that now. Biden’s open border policy guarantees cheap labor forever. Comfortable white folks getting the yard work done cheap, low wage exploitable, sometime child labor working in tough conditions. The white middle class (like you) able to domestic help just like the rich folks. IBP is a corporate outlaw who built a new plant in Fort Dodge and abandoned it six years later to break the union that paid workers a living wage. The outlaws moved to Storm Lake. Storm Lake loves outlaws, judging by your writing over the years.
Maybe sometime you could write about the dark side of the self serving diversity religion you and the comfortable, seriously Caucasian left has been worshipping all these years. Maybe take some responsibility for the damage and pain you’ve caused over the years.