In his book, Patrick Buchanan states that Theodore Roosevelt "thundered again and again against hypenated-Americans." Let me take you one step further and present Roosevelt's comments in their entirety:
"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 becuase of creed, or birthplace,
or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact 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, and this
excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization
just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...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."
In 2007, assimilation is a curse word and hypenated Americans are cool. We hang American flags only when it suits us. We stand at baseball games and refuse to put our hand over our heart and sing our national anthem. We no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance in school. And "diversity" is the name of the game today. In this article Walter Williams reinforces the notion that something has to be done other than throwing up our hands and resign ourselves to the fact that they are here and there is nothing we can do about it.
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