On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:27:28 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote:

| "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
|
|

Sounds good, except in 1907 people of color couldn't use the same
public toilet as white people, Irishmen could only get servant jobs,
and women couldn't vote. Times change.