NOW WE NEED TO END HYPHENATED-AMERICANISM

NEALZ NUZE ^ | 13 NOVEMBER 2008 | NEAL BOORTZ

[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.

[uncitizen]

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

IMO, this country would be a whole lot different for the better had people taken this advice and a whole lot more from Booker T.

[rock_lobsta]

Neal’s wrong...

That 0ne’s no American. It’s an insult to the rest of us to call him one.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Very interesting. But what about that proves Neal is Bonkers?

[Political Junkie Too]

Does that mean I can no longer be a US-American?

-PJ

[kabar]

... but it's time to pay some attention to the words of a former president on the issue of hyphenization:

It is not going to happen. That is not the political reality we are dealing with. Hyphenization is going to continue to an even greater degree. One in 8 residents of this country is an immigrant, the highest it has been in over 80 years. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest in our history and by 2050, it will be one in 5.

Add to this ever increasing percentage of foreign born the fact that minorities will be 50% of the population by 2042 and you see how bonkers Neal is.

[AuntB]

"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"

Perfect. Thank you.

[Oatka]

Victor Davis Hanson coined a good phrase: “Hyphenated Americans have hyphenated loyalties.” I used it for a tagline until I ran across Jouvenel.

[Wil H]

He absolutely is an AFRICAN-AMERICAN, more so than most.

His father was KENYAN and his mother was AMERICAN.

What he isn’t is BLACK, he’s mulatto.

[johnny reb]

Half-ro american?