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You know, my ancestors were Welsh and German, and I have never considered myself a Welsh-American or anything else. As nice as it must have been working yourself to death in a coalmine while singing really cool multi-part harmony, my life is in America. I don't seek to make myself separate from my culture and country. I (still) have more freedom here than I would have there, I (still) have more opportunity, I (for now) have much better medical care. I have no loyalty to my ancestors' homeland, because I was born here, as an American. I work to fit in, I speak clear English, I harbor no grudges against other classes or groups (well, other than confused Liberals, and most of them aren't bad, just foolish.) I show up on time to work, and most important, I am who I am all the time, and don't "put on" a new personality when I am around people I perceive as "like me." I can love the culture of where I came from without making it the thing that defines who I am today.

I am an American. I can't live somewhere else and here at the same time, I can't be a person who lived somewhere else a hundred years ago.

Show me a man who lives honestly, loves his family, keeps his yard clean, works hard, and isn't trying to overthrow the nation by using our freedoms against us, and that man is my brother, and I'd be thrilled to have him move in next door to me.

Martin Luther King, Jr. had MY dream, to live in a world where I can judge a man by the content of his character, and not by the color of his skin. The problem is that every time I judge some men by the content of their character, their "community leaders" make excuses for them and demand that I am judging them by other criteria. Single parents, drug use, bad work ethic, "blaming the Man", failure to finish school, "walk away dads"...these are the symptoms of a bankrupt culture, having nothing to do with skin color. You would think that "community leaders", if they were really leading the community would be preaching from the pulpit that Jesus loves us all equally, and we all need to strive for the high calling of being better people, not blaming someone else. But nope, somehow I as a pale Republican male am to blame for everyone ease's failures. My people say "You are in the greatest country in the world, and we believe you can make yourself rich through hard work. We believe in you!" The Democrats say "You can't possibly achieve anything. You are nothing without our help. We will pay you out of someone else's pocket because you are never going to stand on your own in a world where THOSE people keep you down. Now vote for us." Guess who get's branded as racists?

All kids, want to get ahead? Get a job, if you can find one now that the President's killed of all business. Be prompt, show up, work hard, speak clear English, and for God's sake, ditch the droopy drawers that make employers decide that you are such a immature moron that they'll never hire you. Your problems may not be that you have the wrong pigmentation...it may be you are acting like an idiot that no one wants to hire.

This land today is still better than any other land, at any other time. More prosperity, more hope, more chance for advancement. Hell, our POOR people have TV's, cars and are fat. If you are willing to be "an American" and work hard, you will go far. Insist on setting yourself apart, on celebrating under achievement, and looking like you hate everyone else, and you'll just be another Democrat.