Critique " The Perils of indifference" by Peggie McNeil

This is a short but powerfully written essay, and I enjoyed reading it. It ask the tough questions that the U.S turned a deaf ear too. It took years,and much suffering, many deaths ,and unimaginable pain before the U.S. responded to the plight of the Jewish people . Perhaps, the U.S., being a profit driven Country that can turn a blind eye to the plight and suffer of others, saw no profit in helping the Jewish people at that time. The U.S. has a history of being indifferent to the plight of many people from foreign lands who ,in many cases,boarded make-shift crafts in search of a better life for their families and themselves, only to be turned around and left to perish at the might of the sea. These were the poorest of the poor without anything to offer. We should not judge a person's wealth by the size of his bank account, but by the size of his heart. The movie The Pianist, is a good spin off for this essay ,or maybe a movie where the U.S. is actually living up to what's written on the Statue of Liberty,"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."