U.S. Foreign Embassies Making Millions

A report on the front page of a foreign country’s Sunday newspaper indicated that the United States embassy there acquired $25 million U.S. dollars so far this year from visa applications. In general, this information does not only show the massive income that the U.S. embassy has acquired from this particular country, but it is unimaginable how much billions in total visa income each year that the U.S. government must be earning from all their foreign embassies.  The newspaper also included information that 159,000 applicants have visited this U.S. embassy so far during this year. The U.S. Counsel General from this embassy indicated that 65% of applications are approved. However, contrary to his claim, on a good day, the majority of applicants who line up overnight or during the wee hours of the morning will not be successful in their visa bid. A low visa approval quota means that there is money to be made by foreign U.S. embassies in certain countries where so many of the vulnerable applicants, who struggle to gain the application fee, have no chance of getting a U.S. visitors’ visa.  The U.S. embassies come out on top, at the expense of these applicants, since the foreign agencies get to pocket the visa application fees without issuing any visas to so many.  Therefore, the foreign U.S. embassies are running a profitable business at the expense of so many.

Don't Want to Go Back 200 Years

Ancestry.com’s television commercials attract viewers who may be interested in locating their ancestors. Their recent commercial features African-American twins, and this has allowed the company to get their message across to Black viewers that they too have an opportunity to use the services. The twins are vibrant, convincing, and appealing as they talk about their experiences using the service …until one statement is made. The young man says that he would like to go back 200 years to meet his ancestors. A desire to want to meet ancestors is not an unusual wish. However, such a statement would have meant nothing and go unnoticed if these twins were not Black. Apparently, the producers let such a statement pass since they are ignorant that 200 years ago was 1815 during the height of slavery when slave families were being sold causing a separation of families rather than uniting loved ones. The twin, in making such an absurd statement, also seems ignorant that no Black person, who is aware of his/her history, would consider any desire to want to go back in history during a time when his/her ancestors suffered from mental and physical abuses daily. No one wants to go back to a time when they, too, would be considered slaves or free people with no rights.