AMERICANS NEED NOT CONCEDE
Each day a FACEBOOK friend decries, as "unAmerican," many of President Donald Trump's or his many supporters' misdeeds and/or misstatements in commenting on my multiple posts.
When he began, I was severally disquieted by their substantially similar recurrence. For one, history shows that being racist is not only not unAmerican, it is nearly aboriginal; neither are hypocrisy, duplicity, complicity, nor fascism, "unAmerican."
On the other hand, in the United States of America's original, fabled, founding-documents, Freedom of Speech and Religion, plus the various later Amendments, that are typically taught in certain schools, churches, and homes are most likely to be deemed as being more authentic, more representative, more credibly American, if one just views the documents, but ignores their history.
There were at least 4 Americas to start. In 1787, the Constitutional compromise involving the "3/5s" clause in Article I, Section 2 makes this clear. There was the North, the South, and in the South, the blacks (slaves), and "all others not taxed," the Indians.
After the Civil War, those "poor and huddled masses" from Western Europe, especially, and from China, and the islands of the sea, came into America as immigrants. They made up categories 5 and 6, respectively.
Mexicans, who won independence and freedom from Spain in 1824, lost a later war to the United States in 1845-1846. With this military defeat, Mexico lost 20 years later all of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, California to Arizona, New Mexico. Mexicans or kindred folks have been crossing the border for centuries. They constitute # 7. All others from elsewhere make # 8.
So, by my count, there are 8 groups, at a minimum, who are rightly "American." But, getting back to my FACEBOOK friend's daily "unAmerican" characterizations of "Donald Trump, the Ku Klu Klan, Neo-Nazis, and the GOP," I must concede to the point that he diligently daily presents, e.g. that We are the Americans! And that Trump and his storm troopers are the true "unAmericans."
President Donald Trump is the "unAmerican!" Wrap your head around that! So too, then, as unAmerican as he, are his cadre of alt-right devotees, bigoted billionaires and fringe fanatics.
America is our idea and our ideal, as exemplified in its founding documents and stirring verbal proclamations.
The United States of America is also a well-armed, extremely wealthy, empire; a polyglot of diverse peoples, places, things. Our America has documentary support; theirs lacks such primal support being only venal subversion of our doctrinal documentary proof!
Ours also has historical support in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I , World War II, Korean War, labor movements, women's rights, and of course, the Civil Rights and the Black Power Movements. Therefore, we need not concede our true American legacy of blood, sweat, tears, and toil to Donald Trump nor his storm-trooper tropes.
So now, then, "Make America great again!" Mr. Trump ? Which of these 8 America's are you speaking of? Are you speaking to? All 8 of them, all of us, are true Americans! The true Americans are those who live-out our founding documents proclamations of "liberty and justice for all", not favors or privileges for the few, whatever may be their color, creed, national origin, or hue.
Thanks FACEBOOK friend for teaching me!
Friday, October 27, 2017
AMERICANS NEED NOT CONCEDE
AMERICANS NEED NOT CONCEDE
Each day a FACEBOOK friend decries, as "unAmerican," many of President Donald Trump's or his many supporters' misdeeds and/or misstatements in commenting on my multiple posts.
When he began, I was severally disquieted by their substantially similar recurrence. For one, history shows that being racist is not only not unAmerican, it is nearly aboriginal; neither are hypocrisy, duplicity, complicity, nor fascism, "unAmerican."
On the other hand, in the United States of America's original, fabled, founding-documents, Freedom of Speech and Religion, plus the various later Amendments, that are typically taught in certain schools, churches, and homes are most likely to be deemed as being more authentic, more representative, more credibly American, if one just views the documents, but ignores their history.
There were at least 4 Americas to start. In 1787, the Constitutional compromise involving the "3/5s" clause in Article I, Section 2 makes this clear. There was the North, the South, and in the South, the blacks (slaves), and "all others not taxed," the Indians.
After the Civil War, those "poor and huddled masses" from Western Europe, especially, and from China, and the islands of the sea, came into America as immigrants. They made up categories 5 and 6, respectively.
Mexicans, who won independence and freedom from Spain in 1824, lost a later war to the United States in 1845-1846. With this military defeat, Mexico lost 20 years later all of Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, California to Arizona, New Mexico. Mexicans or kindred folks have been crossing the border for centuries. They constitute # 7. All others from elsewhere make # 8.
So, by my count, there are 8 groups, at a minimum, who are rightly "American." But, getting back to my FACEBOOK friend's daily "unAmerican" characterizations of "Donald Trump, the Ku Klu Klan, Neo-Nazis, and the GOP," I must concede to the point that he diligently daily presents, e.g. that We are the Americans! And that Trump and his storm troopers are the true "unAmericans."
President Donald Trump is the "unAmerican!" Wrap your head around that! So too, then, as unAmerican as he, are his cadre of alt-right devotees, bigoted billionaires and fringe fanatics.
America is our idea and our ideal, as exemplified in its founding documents and stirring verbal proclamations.
The United States of America is also a well-armed, extremely wealthy, empire; a polyglot of diverse peoples, places, things. Our America has documentary support; theirs lacks such primal support being only venal subversion of our doctrinal documentary proof!
Ours also has historical support in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I , World War II, Korean War, labor movements, women's rights, and of course, the Civil Rights and the Black Power Movements. Therefore, we need not concede our true American legacy of blood, sweat, tears, and toil to Donald Trump nor his storm-trooper tropes.
So now, then, "Make America great again!" Mr. Trump ? Which of these 8 America's are you speaking of? Are you speaking to? All 8 of them, all of us, are true Americans! The true Americans are those who live-out our founding documents proclamations of "liberty and justice for all", not favors or privileges for the few, whatever may be their color, creed, national origin, or hue.
Thanks FACEBOOK friend for teaching me!