On Nov 3, 12:21 pm, "HEMI-Powered" wrote:

Frankly, I can see no use whatsoever arguing over who is a majority
or one of a bazillion minorities. Which is why I dispise the idea
of dash-Americans.

President Theodore Roosevelt despised the notion of "hyphenated
Americans", too. Roosevelt was concerned that immigrants were
remaining loyal to the "Old Country" that they had left, and that they
wouldn't be as loyal to the USA.

In particular, the USA needed immigrants to buy war bonds and support
the new American empire in its foreign wars.

Roosevelt didn't want German-Americans to be loyal to the kaiser,
Chinese-Americans to be loyal to "the celestial emperor", or
Englishmen to remain loyal to the king of England.

If you should ever visit Ellis Island, go through the museum and you
will see
political cartoons that depict foreigners and immigrants in
stereotypical charicatures that would never be allowed in mainstream
media today.

But, Roosevelt was in the process of building an American empire, and
needed
as many supporters as he could get to finance our imperial wars...

Most Americans have never heard of the Phillipine Insurrection, in
which America
spent half a billion dollars "pacifying" the islands and killing a
million Funny Little Island People who didn't want the US government
there...

In my book, black, white, yellow, red, purple, green, all colors, all races,
all religions, all nationalities who've earned the right to be called
American citizens are Americans. Period.

Problem is, how does an immigrant "earn" this right to be naturalized
and be considered as American as me? I'm an 11th generation American,
and my ancestors financed the colonization of New England and they
came here with a royal charter from King Charles to establish three
different colonies, two in Massachusetts, and one in Rhode Island.

Am I supposed to accept a refugee from Blangadesh as a fellow
American, merely because he anwered some simple questions about the
American political system and swore an oath that he didn't understand?

Mohammed was a bus driver that used to take his break at a snack bar
where a
bunch of bikers hung out.

Mohammed was studying for his citizenship test and he asked me, "What
means this?", and pointed to the phrase about denouncing loyalty to
any foreign prince, power, or potentate.

So I explained to Mohammed that he must give up his loyalty to
Bangladesh and its government. Mohammed nodded his head as if he
understood, but he went on to boast about how things were different in
his country.

Mohammed could not understand the oath that he took, yet he became a
naturalized citizen in spite of that failure.

So how can anybody claim that a bunch of immigrants gathereing in some
public place, holding up their right hand and swearing an oath they do
not understand have "earned" the right to be called "Americans"?

I am a Real American, and immigrants will *never* be Americans.

In *my* book.