I'm a little brown guy. It was just an accident of birth, really. I could have been a pale-face, but God likes me. You see, my ancestors were lucky enough to be members of a highly advanced civilization that flourished on the North American continent for centuries before the European men came. As society evolved, they became known as Choctaw. I have no idea what that means. Anyway, I'm a little brown guy. I'm also Irish and German. I love to drink, I can drink a lot, and I'm a shitty drunk.
I don't drink anymore, I'm just pointing out my genetic character flaws.
I am mistaken for a Hispanic man quite often. This used to amuse me. Now I find it...disconcerting. I wonder if people avoid making comments about illegal immigration in front of me. I often wonder if people consider my children "mixed". I get offered good "state" jobs when people learn of my heritage. This is just stupid. I wonder how limited my life would be if I was really all that focused on my race.
One thing that I have noticed is that people never call me a racist when I speak in public about illegal immigration. People never call me a bigot when I proclaim from the rooftops my nationalist views. If I was a pale-face, I would be run out of town on a rail. Because white men can't complain.
Being a little brown guy means that I can point out flaws in our current (lack of) immigration policy. I can make fun of white people, brown people, and sometimes (if we're friends) black people. I have accidentally discovered something wonderful. I have more freedom of speech than most of you! I know few black people, and even fewer brown people. So what I'm saying is that even though I am a member of a very small minority, I am more free to speak my mind than anyone in the majority. Its like I'm in on some private joke at the expense of white people everywhere.
I believe that race is a difference that should be recognized, respected, and then forgotten. Celebrate your ethnicity in your communities and homes, but do not lose sight of the larger community. Do not lose sight of America (The United States of, specifically).
Do not give up your right to free speech in order to appear apologetic for something your grandfathers did before you were born. Let it go already. My people took their land from others. White people came (some of which were my people) and took that land again. Had the Indians united and fought back, there would be few, if any, European settlements in America. Now, due largely to an unwarranted sense of guilt, America is on the verge of changing ownership again.
I'm working on my Spanish.
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I am glad to see that I made an impression on you from our discussions. I have learned too.
instead "we must secure an existance for our people and a future for white children" 14 words"
i will say " as a whole caucasion americans should breed with each other to avoid becoming the minority in this country"
not exactly the spin i want, but it's close.
and i digress
Bulldog 27
"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. However, this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact 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, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...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)
In addition, your comments are very sadly true. Someone of my heritage cannot speak openly about these issues without first apologizing to everyone within earshot. To do so would be considered "hatred" and they would lump me in with people like Bulldog 27. The point is that WE as Americans shouldn't let these complications prevent us from speaking up.
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