Seriously, how many generations ago was it that your family members actually came from Africa? Do you know what country? Where they came to in the US?
I'm all for knowing your heritage, but can't we all grow up and get over the distinctions that continue to preserve self-imposed discrimination and another way to group individuals separately from others?
We're all descendants from somewhere else, thats fine, but the fact remains that if we all travel back to where our predecessors came from, we're not seen as natives of that country. Irish Americans from New York City and Boston aren't seen as prodigal sons and daughters when they go back to Ireland. They're seen as Americans. Americans of African descent, the term I like to use, aren't seen as native Africans and welcome home with open arms by their brethren in whatever country in Africa.
All of us as diverse individuals who join the armed forces, we fight under the one single flag of the United States of America. When our troops go abroad, they're seen as Americans, nothing else.
When we all grow up, put the big boy and girl pants on, and start acting like adults about it, that we're all Americans, we'll see a unity this country hasn't seen since its foundation. We'll see a unity far stronger than those trying days, weeks, and months following 9/11. We'll have a resolve that cannot be broken by any act of terror. When we stop classifying ourselves and pointing out our differences as something to gripe about rather than simply diversity, we'll see this great republic for what it was intended to be...the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Good point, I need to change my profile description.
I just don't want people to think I'm racist or a bigot because I posted those views. I simply see it as a creation by the machine of political correctness more than anything else. I have no intentions of insulting or demeaning anyone's heritage, ancestry, or anything else for that matter.
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