[Sir_Ed]

"The problem here is that the Government and the Schools encourage Balkanization of the population by ALLOWING race or ethnic limited organizations. ALL OF THEM should be banned. This is AMERICA. We should only have room for Americans."

So we should ban The Emerald Society or the Italian American Police Association?!

Ed

[ZULU]

NO The "Emerald Society" or the Italian-American whatever are NOT fine.

If you want to be an Irishman or an Italian, Go back to Ireland or Italy, where you belong. Nothing looks dumber than a bunch of so-called Americans marching around and celebrating the fact that their ancestors came from Ireland or Italy, or wherever. If where their ancestors came from was so great, they would have stayed there. My grandparents came from Europe and stayed here because they wanted to be Americans, not Europeans. Here they were free and could live a new life and not have to cowtow to some aristocrat or put up with a state-sponored Church. They were proud and happy to have become Americans, and AMERICANS is what they were when they became citizens here, and an AZmerican is what I am, and proud to be. Furthermore, I want no connection whatsoever with ANY country but America.

So many of those European countries are a pack of cowardly, stupid, inbred, socialist states anyway.

So keep your Emerald Society, or Italian American group to yourself, or, again, go back to wherever your ancestors came from if your so proud to be something other than an AMERICAN.

As for me - I'm an American. Where my ancestors came from has no real relevance to me. I consider myself an American first, last and always and this would be a better place without ANY ethnically restricted racial "Bunds", NAACPs, etc.,etc.