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
Every American citizen needs to read this! As the underlying message equally applies to Great Britian today so should every Brit read it!
My thanks to my friend Mark Winfree of Pennsylvania for sharing this photograph and message with me.
2 comments:
That message should certainly apply to Britain.....but never will.
Why not?...because here there no one flag, one language and one loyalty.
What makes things worse here is we bend over backwards to translate every conceivable form into dozens of different languages for them!
And with things like "British Asian", that sounds like divided allegiance to me. Dear oh dear I'm getting all angry again!
Thank you for the excellent posts
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