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“You’re reading too much into this. people talk of their homeland, meaning where their forefathers came from.”

Excuse me while I rant: “Bull-hockey!”

My mother’s father & mother, circa 1900 Irish immigrants from County Cork, Ireland, repeatedly told my mother and her eight siblings that they were “Americans First!” They just happened to be of “Irish Lineage.” Pa was especially proud to be an “American!”

To further underscore the point, Pa and Ma Kate gave up their Irish-Gaelic language; never spoke it, except to each other.

In the three decker tenement on Decatur Street in Charlestown, (Boston) MA, ONCE, two Irish immigrant neighbors spoke behind their backs in “the Gaelic.” They were shocked when Pa, in the Gaelic, quickly admonished them to speak English. They never spoke anything to him and Ma Kate again except in English!

Also, I know first hand that alot Americans who happen to be of “Irish lineage,” NEVER call Ireland “the Homeland.” They call it the “Old Country.” And they always ask each other “Have you been over yet?”

I’m so tired of the African-American, Irish-American, Polish-American hyphenated bullshit! It’s high time we be done with the hyphenated crap and be thankful that we live in a country with the freedoms we have. Want to be African, Polish, German or Italian... go the hell back to those countries and leave those of us who have made their way, with our cherish freedoms, the hell alone! This is why this country is in the state it is.

I read NOTHING into Michelle Obama’s comments. “It is what it is!” Kenya is Barack Hussein Obama’s “HOMELAND!”

I have thought for the longest time that he was, in fact, born IN Hawai’i and held dual-citizenship by way of Obama,Sr. I’m now beginning to have my doubts.

And for the last time, for you tools up in Boston and Massachusetts, the Kennedys are not “American Royalty” and John-John was not a “Prince!” This Great Nation has no “Dynasties.” This Great Nation is a Representative Republic.

You’ll have to excuse me, “You got my Irish up!”

Though FDR was an ass, he got this one right:

In a 1915 speech to the Catholic group the Knights of Columbus. Roosevelt said:

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... 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. 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. For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.[1]