| My Race is AMERICAN!; Michelle Malkin column | |
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| Texas Mom | Mar 10 2010, 09:37 AM Post #1 |
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http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/09/my-race-is-american/ This is a great idea! Scott Johnson at Power Line reminds us of De Crevecoeur’s Letter from an American Farmer: In Letter III of his Letters From an America Farmer (1782), J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur famously asked: “What then is the American, this new man?” He answered: “He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He has become an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of man, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims.” (More on De Crevecoeur here.) I’ll add Teddy Roosevelt’s famous passage about hyphenated Americanism: 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… 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… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. Edited by Texas Mom, Mar 10 2010, 09:39 AM.
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| retiredLEO | Mar 10 2010, 10:11 AM Post #2 |
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TM, is this how you feel, I do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDjmqTKaVm0 |
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| Texas Mom | Mar 10 2010, 10:56 AM Post #3 |
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Colonel Pete has it right! |
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| Mason | Mar 10 2010, 12:56 PM Post #4 |
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. I don't know if there's any money in it for Al Sharpton to be - American first. . |
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| Texas Mom | Mar 10 2010, 01:19 PM Post #5 |
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