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Is this necessary?
09 July 2018, 18:36
CrazyhorseconsultingProbably not, but is Black History Month necessary?
Even the rocks don't last forever.
As long as we continue to celebrate and highlight the differences within the social fabric of our country, the race war and social divide will continue.
We will remain a hyphenated America - Black-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, White-Americans, LGBTWQR-Americans.
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09 July 2018, 19:59
nobull00Bill Weld VP candidate of the Libertarian Party, recently put out some info about how in 1780 John Adams voiced fears about America becoming a "duopoly".
The info seems pretty accurate. We're in a heap of Shit.
09 July 2018, 20:11
CrazyhorseconsultingTheodore Roosevelt stated that one of the worst things that could happen to America would be for it to become a Hyphenated Society.
Even the rocks don't last forever.
nobull00 - Since you want to bring politics into a topic about the societal and cultural divide in the country, it seems the current political underdog is intent on fanning the race war and our differences in order to excite their base. Not sure anyone is buying that if you would consider that our current economy is lifting all ships. We have record employment in all segments of our population and folks are better off today than they have been in over a decade.
But back to the real topic - celebrating and isolating our differences will keep our country a divided country. The good news is, some cultural leaders are waking up to this reality and are attempting to reach across the racial and socioeconomic divide. Who knows, maybe the trend will catch on...
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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Theodore Roosevelt stated that one of the worst things that could happen to America would be for it to become a Hyphenated Society.
Good point.
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Teddy Roosevelt: "No Room in This Country for Hyphenated Americans"
“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.”
“This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.”
“But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.”
“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.”
“The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Address to the Knights of Columbus
New York City- October 12th, 1915
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10 July 2018, 07:57
CrazyhorseconsultingMany Thanks for finding that and posting it.
I have met and known folks that could remember as kids, being told by their Parents and Grand Parents, that when they came to America and became citizens that while they respected their ancestors and their country of origin, they were now AMERICANS and when in Public they would conduct themselves like any other American.
It is great for a person to be proud of their families heritage, but they need to remember that their ancestors came to America to become Americans and provide their families with a better life.
Even the rocks don't last forever.
10 July 2018, 08:21
NormanConquestX2,None of us are TRUE nationals.I am from German descent. A friend of mine told me of his mother who was a german emigrant + when encountering one of her friends that started speaking to her in german told her friend,we are all americans now,speak english.Good message there.
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10 July 2018, 20:08
nobull00Some friends recently went to California where they met a man of apparently Hispanic descent. Their young daughter asked if he was Mexican. No, he responded, he was native Californian. He then gave them a lesson in California history.
My earlier post about "Duopoly" was simply to underscore the previous posts about divisions in our country. It was not to bring in politics.
11 July 2018, 04:54
Dulltool17Where I work, they started with the Women's Employee Resource Group or WERG
This was followed by the African Heritage Employee Resource Group or AHERG
Next was the LGBTQ-whatever Employee Resource Group, known as LERG
This was followed by the MIllenials' Employee Resource Group or MERG
Finally, we got the only one worth a damn, the Veteran's Employee Resource Group, or VERG
One of the company's goals is to increase "Diversity and Inclusion."
I keep wondering how formation of all these single-minded groups is considered "inclusive."
On the positive side, if an employee is a black, millennial, lesbian veteran, they get a lot of paid time off to mingle...…….
Doug Wilhelmi
NRA Life Member
11 July 2018, 06:18
CrazyhorseconsultingJiust another example that some of us have lived too damn long!!!!!!!
Even the rocks don't last forever.