Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Hat tip to our friend Ben
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A note from Radarsite: Of course, this is 2008, not 1907, and we know better now, don't we? How about getting back to basics, folks? How about reevaluating our multicultural PC nightmare before we completely lose control? 
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We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
ReplyDeleteSays it all, don't you agree?
Agree 100%.
ReplyDeleteIf people in America are not willing to fight and die for her, then they shouldn't be given the right to live within her borders. A Muslim's allegiance is to Islam, not to America. Why are they allowed to reside within her borders when they hate her and plot to destroy her? I wouldn't allow a guest in my house who hates me? I wouldn't be able to trust them. Should America be any different? Can America trust those who give their allegiance to others?
ReplyDeleteIndeed it does Findalis. Plain and simple, but then we have the left, who must complicate it and ultimately screw it all up into some sort of jumble that's ends up undermining the nation in some form or another.
ReplyDeleteMAybe Teddy should have done what Monroe did....Oh well, that doctrine seems to have been scrapped too.
ReplyDeleteAs the toothless would say; 'Da tooph-paphte ouda da toob now.'
I happened onto this site looking for information on Teddy Roosevelt's efforts to simplify and standardize English - only to find I had entered the bizarre and paranoid world of the rednecked, the narrow-minded, the nationalistic to the point of NAZIism, the haters, and those who would restrict residence in the US boringly and painfully to only those just like themselves. Good luck! I think you'd all begin to hate our wonderful highly-diverse country shortly after you converted it to a haven solely for people like yourselves.
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