Generalization and Xenophobia

So what's up with everyone making sweeping generalizations about immigrants and Muslims? I don't understand it. We feel that since we have the privilege of being American we can label other groups of people? A people as diverse as us should be the last to do that. Do we judge all whites by the actions of the white supremacists and white nationalist churches? Do we judge all the Germans by the actions of the Third Reich? No, we don't. We allow these people the opportunity to prove themselves individually in our eyes and the eyes of the community. Why can we not extend the same courtesy to Muslim Americans and Mexican Americans? There are over 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. Are we really going to believe that ALL of these people hate America and wish to destroy it? That's bull shit. Sorry. It is. That's like saying that every black man wants to rape a white woman, when in fact violent crime is intra-racial, not interracial. Intolerance is born of ignorance. We can't let fear and ignorance keep us from extending a hand of fellowship to those who are Americans, just like the rest of us. Why should we deny those who come here the same opportunities our forebears had? Opportunities that they got by killing and displacing the Native American tribes who lived here for thousands of years. And don't give me any of that Manifest Destiny shit. God didn't give us the right to give blankets full of smallpox to villages and massacre women and children at Wounded Knee. Our past is hardly spotless, so I believe we owe those who come to this country the right to help make America great again.