wat do you consume?

I’ll spare you what my broth­er said about Afghans seek­ing to em­i­grate here af­ter the with­draw­al of U.S. troops.

My broth­er lives in New Jer­sey, is an ad­dict, has land­ed on the wrong side of law many times, and is on the far right. Ba­si­cal­ly the op­po­site of me. 

I can just imag­ine where he’s get­ting his news. If any of you that have tried to talk log­ic with peo­ple like him, you know there’s re­al­ly no point in ar­gu­ing. Peo­ple who have made up their mind – it would be eas­i­er to con­vince them the North was South.

The “evil im­mi­grant” is a tired old trope com­mon­ly used by politi­cians and oth­er low-lives to con­jure up votes through fear. A fear a few years ago was Syr­i­ans and now will be Afghans. 

Twen­ty years af­ter ⁹⁄₁₁ it seems like we nev­er learned any­thing of the tremen­dous les­son that could have been learned from our grief. 

We still are ped­dled xeno­pho­bic lies. Here’s a few im­mi­gra­tion facts to com­bat those lies:

myth:
Im­mi­grants are tak­ing over
fact:
Im­mi­grants ac­tu­al­ly only ac­count for 13.5% of the to­tal U.S. pop­u­la­tion, which is in line with his­tor­i­cal norms.

myth:
Im­mi­grants don’t help the economy.
fact:
Im­mi­grant-owned busi­ness­es with em­ploy­ees have an av­er­age of 11 employees

myth:
Im­mi­grants don’t work
fact:
72.5% of im­mi­grants be­lieve hard work is how you suc­ceed in Amer­i­ca and are re­spon­si­ble for half of the to­tal U.S. la­bor force growth over the last decade

myth:
Im­mi­grants are all Mexican
fact:
30% of im­mi­grants come from Asia, and cur­rent­ly more are com­ing from Chi­na than Mexico

The best way to com­bat im­mi­gra­tion ig­no­rance is for the ig­no­rant to get to know an im­mi­grant.

Those who live in a ho­mog­e­nized com­mu­ni­ty are at a dis­ad­van­tage, it’s true. How­ev­er, my broth­er and I grew up around im­mi­grants from so many dif­fer­ent back­grounds, so what’s with our di­ver­gent views? 

It’s who we sur­round our­selves with cur­rent­ly and the me­dia we con­sume. While he is con­sum­ing fear of the un­known, my con­sump­tion is compassion.
 

These prints are now avail­able for pur­chase on our site.

 

—james lewis tucker

Flom­mist James Lewis Tuck­er is the artist and pro­pri­etor be­hind The Aes­thet­ic Union, a let­ter­press shop and de­sign stu­dio that pro­duces lim­it­ed edi­tion, min­i­mal­ist and ex­per­i­men­tal prints. James is pas­sion­ate about keep­ing the tra­di­tion of let­ter­press alive while uti­liz­ing mod­ern process­es which has helped The Aes­thet­ic Union re­main a hub for art, craft and de­sign with­in a shrink­ing com­mu­ni­ty of cre­atives in San Fran­cis­co. Copy­right © 2021 James Lewis Tuck­er. Sta­tis­tic sources.

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