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Originally Posted by dartman51
Teddy had it RIGHT.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Exactly right! This is why I refuse to call black Americans "African-Americans". If their first allegiance is to the continent of Africa, then they should join their ancestors there. A house divided against itself is doomed to fall, and all this politically correct, racial-ethnic divide in this country is a huge contributing factor to the inevitable.
Boxcar
