#MediaBrain: Why 'this @TheCWSupergirl-episode' should be Shown in #History-Classes Today - @SupergirlStaff Shapes Our Future Leaders' #Immigration Policy @SupergirlProd

The episode titled "Stand and Deliver" illustrates some definite truths being taught in the series—with a recent story-arc being devoted to 'the struggle between those who welcome aliens to Earth and those who want to bar aliens from our planet.'

(I sense echoes of 'the debate between those who want to "Build That Wall" and those who want to let any-and-all potential criminals across the American border' ... good thing CBS moved Supergirl from their "serious" network to their 'adventures with the "attractive yet non-threatening racially diverse" Scooby-gang'-network—the network obviously aiming for the teen demographic, with their main slogan being "Dare to Defy^*.")

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The word “History” is built on ancient words that mean “to See (|Narrative of |Past Events, told by a |Trusted-Wise Person or -Judge (that's HIS-story ... or #HERstory 😉).” 

The word “Immigration” is built on words that mean “|Into, |On, Upon + to Move.”

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I know (shouldn't even have to say it) that Supergirl is "fictional"—not based on actual events in more than an 'inspired by'-capacity. But it tells a deep truth (certainly aided by the excellent writing & production & directing & makeup & costume-design & snack-services ... and the people talking and moving-around & stuff, they weren't that bad ☺).

That truth—it comes (or it will come soon) as the answer to the question "What makes one 'a citizen' (as many of the aliens protesting for their rights insisted 'Citizens of Earth')?"

The history of the word "Citizen" makes it seem like the only qualification is that they sleep here. So we'll 'stick a pin in that' and review something Ben Lockwood said as he handed out fliers for his anti-alien cause—that–when The Founding Fathers wrote that "all men were created equal"–they meant Earth-men & -women.

But did they? If extra-terrestrials had been "a thing" back in Colonial times, would the Founding Fathers have regarded them as 'created insufficient'?

I'm reminded of a couple things: first, the scene where Supergirl tells a anti-alien protester that the aliens are 'just like she was when she first came to Earth,' and the protester replies, "They're not like you; you're Supergirl."

Then I'm reminded of something touched-on several times in STAR TREK and other stories about 'making First Contact with alien species': that–to "pre-Warp"- (and/or "pre-astronomy") civilizations–visiting beings are often regarded as 'gods.' (i.e. the way Earth's ancient civilizations regarded alien beings in STARGATE and in that type of science-fiction).

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Maybe someday The CW Catalog will 'grow up' and learn that sometimes the best way to make things right is to just "go-along to get-along" until you become the power you were once set-against, and then to change as you see fit.