America - The Divided

Ever notice how today we are no longer "One Nation Under God?" Instead of America being one nation made up of many groups of people living toward a common goal, that being the greatness of the U.S., today we have a bunch of little "sovereign" nationalities trying to all get along yet make up one country.

Instead of everyone just calling themselves Americans and being proud to be an American we have African-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Latino-Americans and on and on ad nausium. What's the deal with this anyway? Is the U.S. such a bad place that no one wants to just assimilate into our culture and be happy?

I'll leave you with one final thought. This was what President Roosevelt said back in 1907 regarding this very topic:

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Think about it.

Rob