Posted on 11/13/2008 5:59:40 AM PST by Turret Gunner A20
Barack Obama is going to be the next President of the United States. He is an AMERICAN president, not an AFRICAN-AMERICAN president. There's no disrespect intended here ... but it's time to pay some attention to the words of a former president on the issue of hyphenization:
"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." Teddy Roosevelt http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/index.html Jesse Jackson's experiment in nomenclature (yes, he started this mess) needs to end.
Preach it brother!
Depends on whether you to divide or unite doesn’t it? You can’t easily identify targeted victim groups unless you can put tags on people.
Rave on cat chit, someone will cover you up.
I will proudly carry my hyphen.
Angry-American!
“NOW WE NEED TO END HYPHENATED-AMERICANISM”
I disagree. There should a class called white, european tax paying male American. This is the American who is the most discriminated against and we need to take action. Get lobbyists in Washington, create our own caucus and build a voting block.
I would love to see the politicians faces when the media asks whoever the leader is what prompted this call to action.
If we quit using the term “African-American” and insist on more information, maybe they’ll give up the whole thing. For example, I might describe myself as Irish-American, so I insist that my friend who has a darker skin color call himself “Zulu-American” or “Maasai-American” or whatever is applicable. If he doesn’t know, he needs to either find out, or give up the hyphenation.
BTW, Are there many Australian Aboriginals in the US? We can’t call them “African-Americans” because they aren’t.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
-Booker T. Washington
And I don’t know when blacks starting deciding that the PC term for us pale faces was Caucasian. I have heard this crap at work several times. I tell them immediately to can it as I have never been to the Balkans. When I ask them if Negro is the term for themselves they get such a strange look on their face.
There was a hilarious incident here in Atlanta years ago when a local TV wonkette was interviewing some black guy from South Africa and referred to him as an African-American African.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let
him feel that because he belongs to this or that race
he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits
or efforts.
Booker T. Washington
Thanks for reminding me of that. I still chuckle at the stupidity of the PC crowd. I wish that wonkette could meet some of the old guys who used to hang out in front of a country store near where I used to live. They were EXTREMELY offended by the term “African-American” and at being called “Black”.
I heard someone call in to, Sean Hannity’s show - I think it was, and they asked what was the Republican party doing about “black issues”. And I thought to myself - “Honey - they ain’t anymore BLACK ISSUES! We have a black president now & that makes you fully equal!!!
The days of “black issues” are over - Thank GOD! I’m glad to see them gone & now maybe we can concentrate on AMERICAN ISSUES.
I saw Neal for the first time on TV the other day.
He’s a bit of a dolt, isn’t he?
President TR said this for the first time, as I recall, that we must put an end to the hyphenated American.
I believe some people revel in the hyphenated business.
I notice, too, that many black women(successful ones) tend to use double-barreled names after they marry. I wonder why?
Barack Obama is going to be the next President of the United States. He is an AMERICAN president, not an AFRICAN-AMERICAN president. There’s no disrespect intended here ... but it’s time to pay some attention to the words of a former president on the issue of hyphenization:
Sorry Neal but you have made a designation error here. Obama is NOT an American President. He is President OF America, but he is a Socialist President. So maybe we need to keep the hyphenization and call him the Socialist-American President.
I thought Obama had dual citizenship with Kenya. Wouldn’t that make him African-American.
He used to have Indonesian citizenship and maybe still does. He had an Indonesian passport when he was in college. Would that make him Indonesian American?
He’s a god.
African-American was only intended for descendents of slaves who never knew their ancestral country. Obama is a Kenyan American at best and has no legitimate claim to African-American as we’ve come to know it.
Same reason they wear glasses when they don’t need to.
It’s part of the culture to appear to be something you’re not. It’s better to look good than to be good.
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