Hi,
This is a tough one to approach but as you know this blogger never hesitated to tackle the tough ones and won't start now.
HAVE YOU BOUGHT INTO DESTROYING YOUR HERITAGE BECAUSE IT' S JUST NOT THE FLAVOR OF THE WEEK ????????????? REMEMBER OUR HERITAGE IS AMERICA. OUR STRENGTH IN ALL OUR CONFLICTS HAS BEEN OUR DIVERSITY. THAT DIVERSITY COMES FROM BEING OF DIFFERENT HERITAGES AND BACKGROUNDS. IT IS OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER AND LOST MEANS WE LOSE AMERICA AND ITS CONGOLMERATE FABRIC.
SO IF YOU DESTROY THE FLAVOR OF THE WEEK AS EACH FLAVOR CHANGES, IF IT IS DESTROYED AS WELL........YOU ARE DESTROYING THE STRENGTH AND HERITAGE OF AMERICA. WE ARE A HEINZ VARIETY AND WE ARE A COUNTRYTHAT HAS BECOME RICH IN CULTURE AND WISDOM BECAUSE OF AND IN SPITE OF OUR DIFFERENCES.
EVEN THOUGH OUR DIFFERENCES AT TIMES HAVE CAUSED ONE GROUP OR ANOTHER TO BECOME 'THE IN GROUP' TO THE DETRIMENT OF OTHERS, IT HAS WORKED AT THE TIME BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT WAS NEEDED. WHEN IT WAS NO LONGER NEEDED, ANOTHER GROUP BECAME THE CURRENT 'IN' GROUP' AND TOOK OVER. IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER 200 YEARS AND IT'S NEITHER RIGHT NOR WRONG. IT SIMPLY IS.
RESENTMENTS DEVELOP AND EACH 'IN GROUP' SUSTAINS HURT FEELINGS AND A SENSE OF DEMISE AS THEY GET SHOVED ASIDE BY A NEW AND MORE RESENTFUL 'OUT GROUP' WHO WANT TO TAKE THEIR PLACE AND WILL DO SO GIVEN OUR HISTORY. SOMETIMES THE GROUPS RULE IN WASHINGTON, SOMETIMES THEY RULE IN THE SOCIAL WORLD, SOMETIMES IN THE BUSINESS WORLD BUT EACH SYSTEM IS THERE BECAUSE THAT IS THE NEEDED ELEMENT AT A GIVEN TIME.
WE ARE DIVERSE AND OUR BACKGROUNDS RANGE FROM COUNTRY WISDOM TO CITY ' SLICK' AND MERGE INTO A CONGLOMERATE THAT CAN TACKLE JUST ABOUT ANY PROBLEM AND SOLVE IT EVENTUALLY TO EVERYONES' AGREEMENT.
DESTROYING THESE ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IS A DANGEROUS GAME BECAUSE IT DESTROYS WHAT MAKES AMERICA STRONG -- INDEED WHAT MAKES AMERICA JUST THAT--AMERICA.
LOOK AT THE FRENCH, WHOM WE ADMIRE, THEIR TRADITIONS, THEIR ETHNICITY, THEIR FRENCHNESS AND REMEMBER HOW THEY BUCKLED UNDER NAZISM, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM. WHERE WAS THE STRENGTH THAT A UNITED PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE HAD ??????????? SURE, IT SHOWED UP SECRETLY BUT IT LACKED THE BOLDNESS, TRUE COURAGE OF STRAIGHTFORWARD ACTION. WE SAW THIS IN SPAIN AS WELL AND GERMANY'S CAVING TO NAZISM AND RUSSIA'S TO COMMUNISM. THESE LACKS DO NOT SPEAK WELL OF A HOMOGENEOUS SOCIETY. CHINA'S PROBLEMS AS WELL AS JAPAN'S HAVE BEEN ALMOST ENTIRELY HOMOGENOUS. WE LOOK ABOUT AND FIND THAT ETHNICITY OF ONE FLAVOR ONLY CAN CAUSE A NATION TO COLLAPSE.
OUR STRENGTH IS BASED ON THE IDEAL THAT WE COME FROM ALL THESE COUNTRIES AND MORE TO BRING TO AMERICA THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM THEIR BACKGROUND TO OURS STRENGTHENING AMERICA. EVEN THE BLACK POPULATION BECAME STRONGER BECAUSE EUROPE DROPPED THEM IN OUR LAPS AS SLAVES. IN AMERICA AFTER SLAVERY ENDED, THEY HAD A BETTER (IF POOR LIFE) BUT ONE THAT ALLOWED THEM TO BECOME STRONGER AND STRONGER AND LED THEM TO DEMAND THE HUMANITY THAT REPRESENTS AMERICA. THAT DEMAND IS THEIRS NOW BUT ONE WE'VE HEARD BEFORE FROM MANY ETHNICITIES AND SLOWLY IT HAS DEVELOPED INTO ONE MORE FACET OF THIS MARVELOUS CONGLOMERATE WE CALL AMERICA. SO AS THE FRENCH WOULD SAY "VIVE' LA DIFFERENCE' -ALTHOUGH THEY DON'T PRACTICE THAT IDEA EXCEPT IN SEX.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE SUPPOSED PUNDITS WHO CALL FOR YOU TO FORGET YOUR PAST, LEAVE THE ANCESTORS IN THE DUST, TAKE YOUR LIFE AS IF YOU STARTED LIVING YESTERDAY IN AMERICA. THAT'S NONSENSE. THAT'S DESTROYING THE BEST PART OF BEING AN AMERICAN--SHARING THE DIFFERENCES IN OUR HERITAGE AND LEARNING TO USE THE LESSONS OF OTHER LANDS BUT IN A BETTER AND RICHER WAY.
IN A SENSE WE GAIN THE ANCIENT WISDOMS OF THE COUNTRIES WE REPRESENT BECAUSE OUR PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT THEM TO AMERICA AND SO OUR YOUTH IS BOLSTERED BY THE ANCIENTS AND ADDED TO BY OUR NEW BELIEFS IN THE NEW LAND. WE STRUGGLE WITH EACH WAVE OF PEOPLES, WHO SEEK OUR SHORES BY ONE MEANS OR ANOTHER. AND WE GAIN THE STRENGTH OF NEW TRADITIONS, NEW FOOD, NEW WISDOM AND BELIEFS AND WE ARE ABLE TO ACCEPT THESE AS PART OF OUR LIVES BECAUSE ESSENTIALLY THEY ARE BECOMING AMERICAN WHETHER THEY REALIZE IT OR NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT CITIZENS YET ???????????? THEY WILL BE IF WE MAKE IT SEEM AS IMPORTANT AS IT ONCE WAS TO BECOME A CITIZEN. TO BECOME THAT HOMOGENIOUS QUALITY AND HAVE THAT STRENGTH THAT SAYS AMERICAN !!!!!!!!!!!! THEY WILL WANT TO FIND A WAY AND OUR CONGRESS WILL WANT TO FIND A WAY AND WE WILL ALL BE STRONGER, BRIGHTER, HAPPIER AND RICHER AS AMERICANS FOR THE EFFORT.
SO DON'T HIDE YOUR ANCESTORS, YOUR BACKGROUND, SHOW PRIDE BECAUSE YOU HELPED MAKE THIS LAND THE STRONGEST, BRIGHTEST, MOST PRODUCTIVE, RICHEST LAND THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN NOT JUST FOR A FEW BUT FOR THE MANY WHO CAN CALL THEMSELVES AMERICANS.
DON'T BE AFRAID OF IMMIGRATION AND THE SACRIFICES WE MAY HAVE TO MAKE TO CONTINUE OUR COLLECTION OF DIVERSE CULTURES. BE AFRAID IF PEOPLE NO LONGER WANT TO COME TO THIS 'NEW?' LAND BECAUSE THAT WILL MEAN WE HAVE LOST THE ELUSIVE QUALITY THAT MADE AMERICA WHAT IT IS !!!!!!!!!!!! THE QUALITY OUR FOREFATHERS WERE WISE ENOUGH TO SEE WOULD MAKE US GREAT. IT'S CALLED FREEDOM FOR ALL.
THIS IS THE LAST OF THE JULY SERIES CELEBRATING AMERICA. NEXT WEEK IT'S BACK TO THE NITTY GRITTY AND LORD KNOWS THERE'S PLENTY OF THAT!!!!!!!!!!
THERE IS A POEM I LOVE. I HAVE MENTIONED IT BEFORE. IT IS CALLED "I AM AMERICAN" AND I ADD IT TO THIS BLOG. LIEBERMAN SAID IT BEFORE ME AND SO MUCH BETTER. I HOPE YOU WILL PRINT A COPY AND LOOK AT IT OFTEN TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT AND CAN KEEP IT THAT WAY.
CHEERS, CONNIE
I AM AN AMERICAN
by Elias Lieberman
I am an American.
My father was a son of the Revolution.
My mother was a colonial dame.
One of my ancestors pitched tea overboard in Boston Harbor.
Another stood his ground with Warren;
Another hungered with Washington at Valley Forge.
My forefathers were America in the making.
They spoke in her council halls!
They died on her battlefields.
They commanded her ships!
They cleared the forests.
Dawns reddened and paled.
Staunch hearts of mine beat fast
At each new star in the nation's flag.
Keen eyes of mine forsaw her greater glory:
The sweep of her seas,
The plenty of her plains,
The man-hives in her billion-wired cities.
Every drop of blood in me holds a heritage of patriotism!
I am an American!
I am an American!
My father was an atom of dust,
My mother, a straw in the wind
To his Serene Majesty.
One of my ancestors died in the mines of Siberia;
Another was crippled for life by twenty blows of the knout;
Another was killed, defending his home during the massacre.
The history of my ancestors is a trail of blood
To the palace-gate of the Great White Czar.
But, then the dream came---
The dream of America.
In the light of the Liberty torch,
The atom of dust became a man
And the straw in the wind became a woman
For the first time.
See, said my father, pointing to the flag that fluttered near,
"That flag of stars and stripes is yours;
It is the emblem of the promised land.
It means, my son, the hope of humanity.
Live for it---die for it!"
Under the open sky of my new country,
I swore to do so,
And every drop of blood in me
Will keep that vow.
I am proud of my future.
I am an American.
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