ASSIMILATION ---- LOVE IT OR ;EAVE IT !!!! 4/22/2006 3:47:18 PM
NO ONE COULD PUT THIS MORE ELOQUENTLY AND ACCURATELY!
This entire generation of BULL-SHIT ethnicity GALLS me! I happen to be a half-Irish, half-German descendent - SO WHAT !!! Afro-American, Spanish-American, Chinese-American --- etc. ALL BULLSHIT!
How about AMERICANS - with diverse roots? PERIOD !!! ----- Original Message -----
Subject: Teddy Roosevelt is still right today!
Excerpts from a speech by Teddy Roosevelt, in 1907:
"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."
