......”Traditionally, the American public school system has brought together students from different backgrounds and taught them to be Americans and to treat each other as individuals, and not on the basis of their ethnic backgrounds,” Horne said. “This is consistent with the fundamental American value that we are all individuals, not exemplars of whatever ethnic groups we were born into. Ethnic studies programs teach the opposite, and are designed to promote ethnic chauvinism.”....
All that was overthrown in the 1970’s by Alex Haley’s “Roots”, which was also turned into a popular TV miniseries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Haley#Plagiarism_and_other_criticism
Almost immediately, the culture changed, so that people were not identified as Americans, but as particular “nationalities”. This went WAY beyond blacks and Latinos, and continues today.
It turns out that “Roots” was NOT Haley’s family history, but was plagiarized from an earlier novel!!!! Much of the deleterious changes to our culture can be traced to this phony, poisonous piece of propagandistic fiction. Of course, unethical politicians have used this cultural change to practice “divide and conquer”, ultimately leading to the election of Barack Hussein obama.
God bless Arizona for leading us away from this satanic garbage!
True, but his Playboy interview with George Lincoln Rockwell was amazing.
I have to respectfully disagree. It started long before the publication of "Roots". :-) People always had those views... even more so back in our parents and grandparents' generations.
By the time "Roots" came out in the '70's, there already was a movement among people, including "white ethnics", to reconnect with their ancestral heritage with a sense of pride. We might laugh about it today, but in the '70's, it was the fashion to even advertise one's "nationality" on t-shirts, hats, and everything. "Roots" merely reflected that cultural shift. The cultural shift is what made the book.
Today, there seems to be far less of that way of thinking. It seems to exist mainly among "black" and "Latino" groups. That's because people of European descent intermarried in greater numbers; that's why that way of thinking is no longer prevalent among "whites".