[Mark was here]

Black Americans have always been here. Where does immigration enter into this picture?

I was responding to Post 12 by G.Mason.

He offered a quote:

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin...would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." (Teddy Roosevelt speech, New York, 1915)

This quote has to do with immigration, that is why I was writing about immigration.

Sure there were Americans who happened to be black in 1915, but I do believe they were not referred to as anything hyphenated.

Americans who happen to be black, should consider them selves lucky for not being an African who happens to be black.

Americans who happen to be black, pushing to be hyphenated are really pushing for the ruin Teddy was speaking against.

Let me be clear before I hurt any feelings, white politics are just as stupid as black politics, and buying into the concept of African-Americans, is buying into the concept of black politics.

[cyborg]

oh I just wasn't sure what you were referring to... I happen to agree with you.

For whatever reason everyone wants a new definition of themselves thinking it'll change something. UNhyphenated America very much united, I can't imagine how successful we would be (more than we already are).