Posted on 07/07/2017 11:12:54 PM PDT by aquila48
“Therefore did you neglect to say that the Americans in charge of the nation were just as evil as the communist and the nazis?!”
One has to be cognizant of the realities of the times.
When the constitution of the US was written and for a long time thereafter “We the people” did not include blacks, therefore they weren’t supposed to have any rights to began with, so “we the people” didn’t believe “we” were denying them rights, any more than we today think that we’re denying mules the right to run free or to vote.
Applying moralities or definitions of today retroactively to dead people of a totally different era is a useless exercise in virtue signaling and revisionism.
Who knows maybe if the animal right activists of the future get their way, they will castigate us tomorrow for chaining, caging, slaughtering and eating animals today.
Anyway to answer your question, no the nation leaders during the slave era were not “evil” like the Nazis and communists if you judge each by the prevailing morality of their respective times and places.
It’s also important to point out that two cultures that are anathema to each other can both existat the same time provided they do not interact and do not come into close contact with each other. So even though Nazism and Americanism are anathema, Germany and the US could have both existed if each minded their own business.
Frictions from different values and moralities only arise when two cultures come in close contact, as for example is happening today between the West and Islam.
I don't agree with this contention. I know that the official language of the US was very nearly German due to the number of German speakers here, in Pennsylvania and North Carolina primarily.
I was alive in 1963 and the civil rights law of 1964 had not happened yet. So the 2nd half of the 20th century was in fact the year 1820. OK you have shown to me the light of the truth. I am forever grateful for your intelligence. Sarcasm...actually...you did try. You are not completely wrong.
One more thought: planet Earth is inter-connected. Economics, politics, military might. There is no such thing as mutually exclusive nations. To think that black people in the year 1963 were nothing more than farm animals is repulsive.
What in the hell are you prattling on about? Are you sure you belong here? You seem to have made a planetary wrong turn somewhere along the line.
Yes. I know one line of my ancestors came from Germany in the early 1700’s.
That family emigrated to PA but soon moved to what’s now TN.
They pledged allegiance to the US and participated in the Revolutionary War. They are verified patriots in the DAR archives.
Total globalist BS. Go over to the DU and preach you anti nationalist crapola.
There is nothing in the US Constitutions allowing for unfettered free trade with other countries. Try reading the USC and you will see that duties and tariffs are codified. Our military is "interconnected"? Right? We are the only real military in the West, the rest of the West lives rent free.
I agree.
“One Nation” is correct, because when those immigrants became Americans...they committed to One Nation, under God and left whatever citizenship in a different nation behind!
That is WHY The American Revolution happened...to be America-One Nation without British control, and it was fought by ALL who committed to a NEW WORLD created by God for his purpose~
Even the papers of Columbus (translated) showed the Holy Spirit in control of his journey to New World. What God has created can only be destroy with his permission!
Frankly, blacks worked back then.
And they all had there kids assimilate.
We're already there, in one sense. Try driving by yourself through the south side of Chicago, through Harlem or Watts on a Saturday night.
Being One Nation and being a bunch of clones are very very different things.
I know that simplifies and condenses much of the article, but the overall premise is more a self-fulfilling prophesy than a statement of fact - the question is, what are we willing to do to remain One Nation????
“Between 1620 and 1820, except for slaves and the mostly powerless native Americans, almost every person in America could trace their heritage within a 500 mile radius of London.”
Your statement is an exaggeration, but illustrative of a reality, nonetheless. The original thirteen colonies were populated overwhelmingly by the English, with some Dutch and Germans in much smaller numbers. Blacks were anomolous due to their status. French and Spanish settlements were established in their own territories. In fact, bloody wars were fought to keep the English, French, and Spanish from encroaching on each other’s lands. The result was that the Revolution was fought by Englishmen, for the most part. The United States was predominantly a white English construction. By English, I mean Britisher, including the Scots, Welsh, and Irish. Subsequent expansions west integrated other Europeans, like the French and Spanish, into the mix.
What the heck are we today? Some polyglot mishmash of discordant and unfriendly racial and ethnic subgroups from all over the world, constantly at each other’s throats. All of which proves that the globalist catch phrase “Our Diversity Is Our Strength” is asinine in the extreme.
Peruse the Ninth Amendment.
United Individuals with an understanding of the arc of history and a compass of right/wrong move the republic...forward.
I would agree that the values of Marxists and Muslims are contrary and hostile to our republican form of government and therefore should be outlawed. However, your contention that "immigrants ... pretend to have ... values such as honesty, good will, work ethic etc." is flawed seeing that, except for the American Indian, we are a nation of immigrants and the decedents of immigrants .
My ancestors were part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. I also have a couple of ancestors from the Connecticut colony. I really haven’t looked back at where they came from before they migrated to those colonies... maybe I should.
If I traced my lineage back from before the colonies, I’m sure it would show interesting things. My DNA analysis shows mostly British ancestry—but it also shows that I have a very diverse background from Europe, Africa, and Asia. Unfortunately, the further back you try to trace your ancestry, the more unreliable the results are.
“...abolish papers and language schools that were not English to force integration.”
When did “we” do that?
“...abolish papers and language schools that were not English to force integration.”
When did “we” do that?
The immigrants from the early 1900’s through the mid 1900’s may have come from “diverse country’s but they for the most part cam for the same reason. To become Americans, work hard and build a better life for their families then they could where they came from. They did not come here to turn this Country into the same shit-holes they cam from. Big Difference!
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