The Will Sexton Files

And the only reason the Ellis Island period worked is because there were Was who picked themselves up and got involved and made it work. Like I I always talk about Teddy Roosevelt on the channel that like him and his his successors are remembered as these great Americans because they stepped up and made it work. They they had this insane runaway immigration. It was this new it was I mean 40ome percent of the country at that time was foreign born. It was like I think we only just recently hit the same level as the Ellis Island period. That's not nothing. Like there's this it's a nonsensical line to go oh well no but they were also European. That is not how these people felt at all. Like they also felt that it was these people are very very foreign. And so the reason why it ended up working out and we can look back on it now and say, "Oh, well, they were all just white people," is because of the work that was done then, that they uh put in these assimilation techniques. They broke up the enclaves. They broke up the foreign language presses.