by Joseph Forefathers
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”
I believe Raven Symone has a similar mind-frame:
And Morgan Freeman:
I love what Allen West has to say about this too:
Hyphenated Americans need to STOP segregating themselves. By adding your simple adjective you are relegating yourselves as non-inclusive in the American experiment. Should you know and be proud of your heritage? Of course! History is important, and it is true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. However, to LIVE in the past by demanding labels is to ignore the future. And in ignoring the future you are failing to plan for the future.
And failing to plan is planning to fail.
As Allen West stated in the video “the welfare system is a great safety net, but it should not become a hammock.” Welfare can become another form of slavery when the people become dependent upon it.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
― Abraham Lincoln
I believe this is just as true now as it was then. Are we to become a welfare state? Or will we value our rights, our liberty, and our sacred honor enough to FIGHT for them, to keep this country free? Fight to unite this country to become great once again. Fight for a colorblind society. Fight to get rid of Affirmative Action. It has become obsolete. Fight for Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream where everyone “will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
If we are not united, we will fall.
-Joseph Forefathers