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Borg Conspiracy

Hyphenated Americans

Hyphenated Americanism is nothing new. In reality, America has been wrestling with the controversy of hyphenating allegiances for the better part of the last hundred years. At one point in the early twentieth century, the controversy was addressed publicly by both president Theodore Roosevelt and president Woodrow Wilson.

And many subsequent Americans might have thought that the issue had forever more been put to rest. But the reality of resurrecting social ghosts is always present as it concerns the efforts of those who would sooner see America split and destroyed, than abandon their own singular egalitarian viewpoints of supposed multicultural fairness.

Speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, President Teddy Roosevelt had the following to say on the issue of hyphenated Americans.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all....The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.....

God bless... Americans.

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