This One's for John
The year is 1907.....but the speaker knew what he was talking about. Very interesting and relevant.Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 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."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
posted by fuel52 at 8:58 AM
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I don't know the speech, but in 1907 he was still President.
The emotion that this speech invokes here in 2007 causes me a certain curiosity. Have you ever noticed that nearly everyone you talk to has the same feelings about such matters? I'd venture to say that nearly 90% of people feel this way. Why then is our country doing things against 90% of its residents? I don't have the answer , other than to say that the 10% are motivated to do something about it, and 90%'s lives aren't affected enough by it to be motivated other than to complain.
Very interesting...I don't usually pay attention to things like this (the sort of stuff that pops up in email FWDs) and actually thought it was probably not factual but I snoped it out and it was indeed a factual speech that happened 75 plus years ago.
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