Diversity

DIVERSITY

The USA is a melting pot of all peoples. All American bloodlines came from somewhere else originally, including the so-called Native Americans. There is no such thing as Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans or any other -American. We are all Americans. Our unity regardless of the diversity of our origins is what makes us strong and sets us apart from the rest of the world.

Forty-five years ago I asked my Dad about our American-Indian heritage. We were living in Dallas at the time and had just come out of a store and saw there on the sidewalk an “Indian” sitting on a blanket selling trinkets. Dad had talked to him briefly and he apparently knew him. It turned out the man was a distant cousin. After we got in our car was when I asked the question. My Dad’s response was that yes, we did have an “Indian” heritage, but that he and his family had chosen to live and work in the Dallas area, denying this because they didn’t need or want Government aid and had no wish to live on a Reservation. He went on to tell me, “Never tell anyone that you are an Indian or have any Indian blood. They will only call you a ’blanket-assed Red Nigger.” Remember this was the time of rampant discrimination just as the civil rights movement was starting, before Dr King walked to Selma. Before Malcolm X or the Black Panthers, before the uprisings within the Indian Nations too.

I didn’t understand why people would think such a thing or what made people so different from each other or why some people feared the differences in others and I thought that separating us all based on our differences rather than bringing us all together based on our common bond as Americans was stupid, ignorant and plain-old dumb. I still think so today.

At one point the same year, we went to our church’s Camp-Meeting at a local Church-owned College. Dad took me to the Library building which was opened to the public and showed me the “Men’s,” “Ladies,” and “Colored” bathrooms and the segregated “White-only” and “Colored” water-fountains. He told me that these things were a disgrace and shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere and especially in a church-owned facility where supposedly all were recognized as the “Children of God.” He then went on to tell me that the facilities were only for white and colored people, that Indians, if known to be present wouldn’t have even been allowed in the building and probably not in the campground because Society of the time knew us to be lazy, ignorant people who were nothing more than thieves and bums.

I was beat up when I was eleven, especially around my groin area. The four older boys who did that to me held me down and pounded on me until I couldn’t resist. They especially pound my scrotal sack so that I would never be able to have children when I got older. Why? because 1) my skin was darker than theirs and 2) I went to a different church than they did. They thought I was Jewish. They were thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and seventeen. they were all white and all members of one particular denomination of the Christian faith and all neighbors of ours.

I learned to fight after my convalescence and over the next year. Two years later, I was confronted on my street by a gang of five black boys, all older than me, who didn’t think I had a right to stand outside on my street. This time I didn’t get beat to hell. Somehow they triggered a reaction in me like a Dam bursting. During the next few days after that fight, I looked up the three remaining neighborhood boys who had beat me up earlier and taught them to respect and even to fear me a little. After that I lost the weight I had gained over that year of hiding in my house and became more assertive.

I also learned that it doesn’t hurt me to give others respect on meeting but to reserve judgment as to whether the respect given is going to be earned or not and thus taken back. I am who and what I am, nothing more and nothing less and I accept that you are the same. I accept that and respect it. Always. I accept that we all have issues and make mistakes. I respect that and I respect it when I see a person dealing with their issues and trying to rectify their mistakes or at least learn from them. I lose respect quickly for those who don’t respect me and for those who show me that they are unwilling to learn from the mistakes they make or right wrongs they have committed.

I do not notice a person’s race or form opinions of them based on their race or religion and never have. As a matter of fact, I have been shocked in the past when a person’s race or religion is noted by another. I’m sorry I just don’t think along those lines. I wish the whole population of the US was more like that. I instantly distrust and/or dislike someone who bases their sole opinion of anyone on their race, sex, sexual-preferences or religion.

This is why I completely distrust Islam, they discriminate against any other religion, and against women. I also distrust race-mongers. Race-mongers are people who make a living or a political career out of racism in any form. Two who come to mind instantly are the Rev.’s Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Those two gentlemen, claiming to be Reverends, will have to explain their behavior and motivations to a Much Higher Authority in the end and that’s fine with me, but what I don’t understand about them and their ilk is how many Americans buy into their particular brand of crap! There are other brands of crap for sale in America today as well that I find equally heinous, to be sure.

The ability of people to peddle their own brands of crap and for others to listen to it and judge it’s worth are a vital part of what makes America the best and strongest country in the world today. We aren’t Imperialistic, sure we’re flattered and happy when another country accepts our Constitution and way of Governance as their own and will send troops, aid or both to any Nation who requests our help. Those are American values. They are what set us apart as a unique people regardless of the diversity of our individual origins.

The really unique thing about America and Americans is that all of our origins are from somewhere else. We are United together in the common cause of the inalienable right to Freedom for all Mankind. Anyone, and brothers and sisters, I mean ANYONE who sets out to deny me or any of us that right in ANY WAY is my enemy, your enemy and ultimately the enemy of every person who will ever draw a breath on this World. Forty-five years ago the enemy in the US was Racism. Today we have two major enemies to Freedom in the US, Democratic Liberalism (Marxism under a new name) and Islam.

It’s time for us to realize that ‘Politically Correct’ is a phrase used by these Totalitarians to attempt to emasculate us, just as those bullies used their fists to try to emasculate me all those years ago and to stand up for our Rights as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America and to show the world that the US is still standing and will continue on through this crisis and all future crises the stupidity of Mankind throws in our faces. We are the Bastion of Freedom, it’s time we showed that to the World-at-large.©TXFred06-02-2010