______-Americans, yeah right.

By Bill Horton
10/18/05

The Nation of Islam had it’s big “get-together” in Washington D C this past weekend.

It seems they fell a bit short of their million man goal.

Anyway, they proclaimed white America guilty of various crimes against everyone.

Ever heard anything like that? Of course you have. Everyday in America there is one group of folks that are the culprit for each and every wrong in the world. Let’s see if you can guess whom it may be.

Folks ridiculous comments of this nature are thrown around everyday. The name calling from the hate groups of the left are sort of easy to ignore since it is almost daily.

I could hardly care less what Mr. Farrakhan or Mr. Shabaz have to say about me.

They certainly are not taken seriously when they are fighting for a separate ministry of defense and essentially a separate government as well as provide reparations from the very government they refuse to recognize.

I have grown up in a world where it is OK to call me a bigot for simply disliking a type of music but because of my skin color I am oppressive and uncaring. I like to think of myself as one that despises people based on their individual achievements not their skin color or some other ridiculous criteria.

America is comprised of many people of many nationalities. Many of these folks choose a specific nationality from their lineage and choose to ignore the parts they dislike. Many receive payments from the federal government based on a purported link to a nation or tribe. It is a toss-up as to whether or not these claims are valid but if it comes down to money you can bet they will fight to provide some sort of evidence credible or not.

I fail to see the point in the association with a group or culture many times removed if one has no true sense of the true culture.

If you look around there are plenty of newly-flourishing tribes in America. Some tribes had been extinct for as many as three hundred years but suddenly after a certain state allowed for native gambling an amazing rebirth of the tribe has taken place. A story of a long gone tribe rising from the ashes to claim it’s rightful treasure from the gaming industry. Hmmmm?

Folks, I am an American. I am sure to be a mixture of any number of cultures from as many nations but I only KNOW one culture. I am an American.

I laugh at the folks around me that get almost militant when someone mentions a culture or nation in an off way. They are as American as I am but they have to defend, almost with blows, a culture they have likely only seen in movies or read about in a cheap novel.

What it really boils down to is that if you live the US and this were you were born, you are likely not going to be readily accepted in the nation that precedes the hyphen in the highly coveted ______-American.