Multiculturalism: American Suicide

We know Richard Lamm as the former Democratic Governor of Colorado from 1975-1987. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. In 2004 there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Davis Hansen talked about his latest book, Mexifornia, explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.

Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'"

"First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country." History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.' Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."

Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.

Third, "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.' Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."

"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high. school."

"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population."

"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic Games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. E. Pluribus Unum -- From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus'. Instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."

"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."

In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, "Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson's book, Mexifornia. His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book, 1984. In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."

Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that the future of our great nation is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped quickly, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.

America’s central tenant is individualism.

Liberal’s praise of multiculturalism—just barely disguising their condescension—is really an expression of their collectivist contempt for the individual.

“So the melting pot makes everything white? I think not. Lamm was full of crap. We have dozens of nationalities and cultures in our country, all worth honoring and preserving, all belonging to Americans.

Deal with it.”

Really? The race card :-)
What does white have to do with anything?

If what you’re saying is that only white people hold American values I suggest you look outside whatever little box you live in. The American Idea is color blind. You agree with/understand America the Idea or you don’t. Very simply, whatever color you are, if you don’t want to be an American first go home.

“what really ticks me off, is that my ancestors carved out this great country from the wilderness at great personal cost. And WHY did they do it? for US, their descendants.”

Your ancestors (and mine) were thinking 7 generations ahead. We no longer do that. That’s the problem. For decades we’ve been taught not to protect ourselves nor our heritage in a myriad of ways. For that generations to come will not glean the fruit of their father’s labors as we did.

So the melting pot makes everything white? I think not. Lamm was full of crap. We have dozens of nationalities and cultures in our country, all worth honoring and preserving, all belonging to Americans. Deal with it.

Kind of missed the point - they have loyalties outside of being Americans and dilute the sense of what it is to be American. many openly detest America even as they reap the benefits. They are like termites and we keep encouraging them to continue in this vein with statements like "deal with it".

Richard Lamm - the same guy who said some years back that old people had a duty to die & make room or free up resources for the younger generations.

He’s a Soylent Green salesman as far as I’m concerned.

“Never understood why anyone would want to destroy the system and society that made it possible for even the poorest to live so well.”

Historically, dictators are only concerned with their power; they couldn’t care less about the average person. They are threatened by prosperity. Obamacare is a power grab; the collateral destruction of our health care system is icing on the cake.

we have dozens of nationalities and cultures in our country, all worth honoring and preserving...

Of course. But there has to be a prevailing culture which everyone becomes part of. When I was a child growing up in Danbury CT, there was a wonderful myriad of cultures and religions. It was practiced in churches, in social gatherings, at cultural/recreation events, in families and neighborhoods. We all enjoyed each other's special events, foods and even church sponsored activities. But when we were together away from those cultural events, everybody worked to live the American dream.

It was that combination...melting pot but respecting individual cultures that worked. If one wants to impose their values, they should stay in their homelands.

This article should be required reading. It's eerily on-target.

I was at a diversity training session at work and the person running the event was going through bullet points about how diversity makes for a strong company and economy.

In fact, I think there’s some truth in that but it’s wildly overstated.

So I asked about a slide earlier in the presentation that showed China and India with rapidly growing economies (this was several years ago). I asked if racial diversity is an essential strength, why were countries with significantly less racial diversity doing so much better than countries with more racial diversity.
The wide eyed, stunned look I got back made it all worthwhile.

I asked if racial diversity is an essential strength, why were countries with significantly less racial diversity doing so much better than countries with more racial diversity"

YES !!! I LOVE IT when audiences ask those questions that knock robo-speakers off of their pedestals.

I was at a HS teacher's meeting where the principal said she was going to have parent-child-community leader sensitivity meetings to curb violence. I raised my had and asked why she didn't just call the police gang unit to arrest and jail the perpetrators, since a "gang" of juveniles here is legally three or more commiting illegal acts. She said she didn't know that!

“Richard Lamm - the same guy who said some years back that old people had a duty to die & make room or free up resources for the younger generations.”

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As an 81 year old I certainly don’t appreciate that. :-)

“So I asked about a slide earlier in the presentation that showed China and India with rapidly growing economies (this was several years ago). I asked if racial diversity is an essential strength, why were countries with significantly less racial diversity doing so much better than countries with more racial diversity.”

We have the same problem in South Africa. Lots of diversity training, little productivity.

“America is an idea - a set of ideas. “

Not that again. That’s closer to the French Revolution than anything having to do with America.

America is, or once was, the culture of the people who settled it.

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