TEDDY ROOSEVELT WAS RIGHT
If you’ve been listening for any time at all you realize that I don’t particularly like hyphenitazation. Yeah – I made the word up. It’s supposed to describe the practice of identifying one’s self with two or more names or attributes separated by a hyphen. Women who can’t quite commit themselves to a marriage use this device … as do many racial and ethnic groups. You won’t, for instance, hear me using the “African-American” moniker to describe black Americans.
A while back I shared with you a quote from Theodore Roosevelt Here it is again:
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...A hyphenated American is not an American at all. Americanism is a matter of the spirit, and of the soul. 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...each preserving its separate nationality. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American."
Want to see what happens when all this hyphenated Americanism comes to fruition? Just look at our nation's college campuses.
A growing number of colleges are hosting separate graduation celebrations. These separate celebrations divide students by color, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Several universities, including UCLA, Iowa State University, and the University of Oregon, hold something called a "Lavender Graduation" for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. Several schools also have special ceremonies for blacks and other racial and ethnic groups.
Whatever happened to celebrating the individual? Whatever happened to celebrating the achievements of the individual college student at a single graduation ceremony for ALL graduates? Isn't this the kind of segregation civil-rights leaders wanted to defeat in the 1960s?
Now it's becoming fashionable to segregate groups...all in the name of celebrating the herd mentality and some shallow, skin-deep definition of "diversity."
We're becoming exactly the kind of nation Teddy Roosevelt warned us against. Plan your escape route.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27883,00.html
If you’ve been listening for any time at all you realize that I don’t particularly like hyphenitazation. Yeah – I made the word up. It’s supposed to describe the practice of identifying one’s self with two or more names or attributes separated by a hyphen. Women who can’t quite commit themselves to a marriage use this device … as do many racial and ethnic groups. You won’t, for instance, hear me using the “African-American” moniker to describe black Americans.
A while back I shared with you a quote from Theodore Roosevelt Here it is again:
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...A hyphenated American is not an American at all. Americanism is a matter of the spirit, and of the soul. 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...each preserving its separate nationality. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American."
Want to see what happens when all this hyphenated Americanism comes to fruition? Just look at our nation's college campuses.
A growing number of colleges are hosting separate graduation celebrations. These separate celebrations divide students by color, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Several universities, including UCLA, Iowa State University, and the University of Oregon, hold something called a "Lavender Graduation" for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students. Several schools also have special ceremonies for blacks and other racial and ethnic groups.
Whatever happened to celebrating the individual? Whatever happened to celebrating the achievements of the individual college student at a single graduation ceremony for ALL graduates? Isn't this the kind of segregation civil-rights leaders wanted to defeat in the 1960s?
Now it's becoming fashionable to segregate groups...all in the name of celebrating the herd mentality and some shallow, skin-deep definition of "diversity."
We're becoming exactly the kind of nation Teddy Roosevelt warned us against. Plan your escape route.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27883,00.html
