Fear of the Minority Never Really Changes

A new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.  He said to his people, “Look, The Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we.  They will take our jobs and take our women.  They’ll flood our hospitals with their diseases and our schools with their dirty children.  They’re violent.  They’re drug users and they bring illegal drugs across our borders.  They don’t worship the way we do.  They don’t even speak our language properly. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and take over the land.”

Exodus 1: 8 – 10 somewhat modified…