Posted on 02/03/2016 8:37:52 PM PST by kathsua
thx- another freeper sent that to me also
Born / Died (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
("A hyphenated American is not an American at all." Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, ) See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American
The term "hyphenated American" was published by 1889,[2] and was common as a derogatory term by 1904. During World War I the issue arose of the primary political loyalty of ethnic groups with close ties to Europe, especially German Americans and also Irish Americans. Former President Theodore Roosevelt in speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, asserted that,[3]
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
If some Australian aboriginal people moved here and became American citizens they wouldn’t be African Americans in any way but they would be called that because of their skin color. That pretty much reveals what a stupid label it is.
Ok, I’m old. Surely Whoopi (who is my age) knows WHY they are called African Americans! They have jerked us around so many darn times. Here’s how it went down: in the sixties they told us to call them African Americans because they weren’t wanted and respected here and they came from Africa and Africa’s a beautiful place they were stolen from, then it went to, no, call us “Black” because “Black Power” and “Black is Beautiful!” and “don’t you Whiteys try and make us ashamed of our Blackness and Afros” and all that, and we said OK and started calling them Blacks and all of a sudden it was “African American” again and we fell in line. Make up your effing minds or better yet, leave us alone.
She has also murdered 6 of her unborn children during her street tramp days. I resent having to hear her preach about anything.
Teresa Heinz-Kerry, born in Mozambique...
African-American
Yep, that’s the other side of that stupid coin.
“I dislike the idea of hyphenated americans”
Totally agree! I also dislike “black” and “white” - except when referring to the far, far, far ends of the melanin spectrum.
“colored persons”...If its good enough for the NAACP its good enough by me.
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Agree.
Not to mention the United Negro College Fund.
She’s still just as racist as she was before. She just doesn’t want the label.
I agree and “for once” I’m going to think and say a good thing or two about Whoopi!
Coming from her, this could begin a trend away from a practice that has not advanced their cause one iota!
Good for her. Not normally one to agree with her about much, but she is smart to reject this tag. Hope others will follow.
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