[...] even in divorce. But it is later on that he brings this down to a subject near and dear to both my own, and Wordsmith’s, hearts. And that is this whole collide of cultural worlds highlights nations [...]

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I am an American then Christian second. Then Polish, Lithuanian, Dutch, Norwegian, Mongolian, some African, Some Jamaican, should I keep going.
English, Irish, Scotch Irish, Almost Forgot German

I am a mutt, what should my hyphenated American be?????

Stix,

That reminds me of that Christmas joke well-wishing to all my liberal friends apologetically, so as not to offend, in paragraphs what is summed up in one simple phrase to our conservative friends: Merry Christmas!

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Thank you for the kind compliments, Barbara. But you sell yourself short. Our intelligence lies in the capacity to absorb and process data. Not in the ability to spit it back out orally, or via keyboard. Some people manage to convey what they mean – or thought processes – easier than others. That does not make them “smarter”.

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You too Mata Harley. I have really enjoyed reading your posts even though some of them make me feel totally dumb and that I should brush up on my education a little bit more. Maybe a whole lot more.

It really irritates me that in this great country of ours where anyone can succeed in life and live the good life fail to even try.

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Nice to see you back, and in full form, BarbaraS! Happy 4th, girl.

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The interesting thing is ‘Christian’ is a choice. ‘Black’ is not

Interesting that you would say this. Tell me, why don’t you hear Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans pushing their race and whining about being put down all the time and left out of the pie. Their color and facial features are different from caucasian as much as blacks are. They don’t do this because they are success oriented. The problem with blacks is that they are taught in their churches by their preachers, who are their leaders, that they can’t succeed in life because whites won’t let them. They totally ignore all the blacks who have succeeded. In fact, these same preachers denigate these successful people and call them Uncle Toms. Anyone in their communities who try to get ahead are accused of acting white. Their leaders are the ones keeping them down because they want them dependent on them both monetarily and mentally. And the blacks fall for this. That is why they think of themselves as black first and American second. And some of them don’t consider themselves Americans at all. In black liberation theology they consider themelves Africans only.

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And who is to say that they would be wrong.

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The reason Ms. Marie felt emboldened to sing the black liberation anthem at that gathering was that the blacks think when (hopefully never) Barack is president they will come into their own. They think he will change everything and their values will be the norm and all things white will be abolished. They think this because they don’t have a clue about how this country is governed. They also think this because this is what they want and expect to happen.

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This is a consequence of the idiocy of multiculturalism that threatens to balkanize American society and divide us.

Had we been teaching civics and patriotism in school instead of multiculturalism and love for the U.N. this wouldn’t be happening.

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I’m suggesting most people are *something* first and American second.

That’s just the crowd you have chosen to hang out with.

The rest of us are Americans first and foremost.

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