Many Southerners are of English heritage. They should put aside the old hatreds for their English cousins in the North over the Civil War, and celebrate their shared English heritage. If the Irish can have their St. Patrick's Day parade, English Americans can have St. George's Day parades. I would be happy to march with them, if invited, despite the fact that my heritage is Southern European. Mitt Romney should publicly declare that he is Anglo-Saxon and proud of it. His people should have an English pride movement, and make English the official language of the United States.
1 posted on
07/27/2012 11:28:11 AM PDT by
pinochet
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To: pinochet
Many Southerners are of English heritage.And many are of Scottish, Irish or Scots-Irish heritage (Scots who migrated to Ireland and after some generations, to the American south).
2 posted on
07/27/2012 11:32:58 AM PDT by
Albion Wilde
("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
To: pinochet
In the 21st century you can -- indeed must -- express bigotry toward all Christians and all White culture, at all times.
To fail to express disdain for these things is to be a perpetrator of a hate crime against African Americans and Communists.
3 posted on
07/27/2012 11:33:16 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
To: pinochet
Heck no.
We’re scum.
All of us.
4 posted on
07/27/2012 11:35:33 AM PDT by
djf
("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
To: pinochet
America ~ our America ~ begins with the Treaty of London (1604) where the KIng of Spain, hardly an Englishman (although his father had been) crammed down a treaty to all the other Europeans that carved North America into broad zones for their development.
The English, per se, were not given a special piece. They had to jump into the Eastern Protestant Reserve.
5 posted on
07/27/2012 11:37:06 AM PDT by
muawiyah
To: pinochet
“We’re all very different people. We’re not Watusi. We’re not Spartans. We’re Americans, with a capital ‘A’, huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.” - Stripes
6 posted on
07/27/2012 11:37:19 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(FUJR (not you, Jim))
To: pinochet
One of my grandfathers was of pure New England Puritan descent; the other of Virginia settlers moving to the North Carolina mountains - ancestors came as early as the 1620s - English with a sprinkle of lowland Scots and Welsh - damn straight I’m proud of my heritage, North and South both.
7 posted on
07/27/2012 11:37:36 AM PDT by
heartwood
To: pinochet
I am English, Irish, Scots Irish, and Scots, and my family fought on both sides of the war between the States. These pride days could get confusing.
To: pinochet
It might just be enough if we would be grateful for the life each one of us has been given by our Creator, just being a member of the human race...
The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things; and He made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
[Acts 17:24-27
To: pinochet
Sorry, the only days we “Anglo-Saxon” Southerners care about are Independence Day, Veterans’ Day, and Memorial Day. We don’t need any of that ethnic stuff. We are ethnically “American” and that’s about it.
But, by all means, keep on celebrating various “heritages.” We enjoy trying the food (except for the Haggis...). Besides, would you really want to celebrate a day with British cooking?
10 posted on
07/27/2012 11:46:39 AM PDT by
Little Ray
(AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: pinochet
You’re not allowed to have or express pride in your heritage unless your people came her as slaves over 200 years ago...get it?
12 posted on
07/27/2012 11:53:59 AM PDT by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: pinochet
Only the Anglo part - after all the Angles were brutally victimized and overrun by those awful Saxons!/s
15 posted on
07/27/2012 11:57:26 AM PDT by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: pinochet
American heritage.
We need Newt to teach a class on Western Civilization.
16 posted on
07/27/2012 11:57:33 AM PDT by
donna
("...gay couples raising kids. That's the American way..." -Mitt Romney)
To: pinochet
“...Southerners ... should put aside the old hatreds for their English cousins in the North over the Civil War...”
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I don’t know what in the hell led you to that thought.
I am a Pict-American and I don’t get no respect.
17 posted on
07/27/2012 11:57:43 AM PDT by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: pinochet
I don’t think it matters a dingo’s kidney what someones heritage is. It only matters what their individual character is. We are by our nature individuals and not part of some collective. What some people have done who share my genetic background has no bearing on my life.
18 posted on
07/27/2012 11:58:33 AM PDT by
albionin
(A gawn fit's aye gettin.)
To: pinochet
“I would be happy to march with them, if invited.”
Same here.
Someone once had the audacity to ask my father-in-law the following question; “You’re Italian, aren’t you?”
He stiffened his six-foot-three frame, walked up to the individual, looked him in the eye, and said the following in his gravelly voice and straightforward manner: “Hey, THIS is my country. I came here for a reason”, in all the seriousness he could muster.
The questioner, a hyphenated American, was taken aback and never asked the question again.
Those words still echo in my mind.
R.I.P. Carl.
20 posted on
07/27/2012 12:00:13 PM PDT by
ripley
To: pinochet; Anoreth
We can all learn to read “Beowulf” in the original language.
21 posted on
07/27/2012 12:01:09 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
("To contracept is to rebuke a woman for being a woman." ~ Donald DeMarco)
To: pinochet
What say we celebrate our Saxon heritage, lads!
To: pinochet
FUBO has overwhelmingly identified with blacks for years. Now he plays up his Anglo-Saxon heritage? Bugger off, FUBO, you are a tosser.
28 posted on
07/27/2012 12:13:41 PM PDT by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: pinochet
Anglo-Saxons are the
one ethnic group in all the world who are not allowed to celebrate their ethnicity--not only in America, but anywhere else. Even in England itself the Irish, Scots, and Welsh are celebrated but not the English. Like everywhere else on the globe the English are the "abstract host population" of the United Kingdom and are expected to celebrate all the Celtic identities while merely being abstractions themselves.
Then, of course, some on the Right in America worship the Celts and have made Celtic identity and hostility to the "base, brutal, and bloody Saxon" the cornerstone of their claims to nationhood (the neo-Confederates, for example).
31 posted on
07/27/2012 12:18:17 PM PDT by
Zionist Conspirator
(Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
To: pinochet
33 posted on
07/27/2012 12:19:09 PM PDT by
pgkdan
(ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!)
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