When I went to YouTube to get the link for:
A City Upon A Hill: The Spirit Of American Exceptionalism – Official Trailer
I noticed the comments posted under it included this:
Native American: lol
African slave: say what?
Filipinos occupied by US empire: GTFOOH
Mexico: LMAO
Middle east: ROFLMAO
Logic: AHAHAHAHAHA
Evidence: wtf?
Another comment says:
They’re not talking about AMERICAN exceptionalism, they’re talking about WHITE exceptionalism.
Okay. I get it. The United States was founded mostly by white Europeans who haven’t been perfect.
But you know what else? I’m SICK TO DEATH of hearing about it!
This has been a burr under my saddle for a long time. The other day, the Lord brought it up during my prayer time and showed me how much resentment I had about it. So I asked Him,
“What should I do?”
“Forgive them for harping on the sins of your forefathers and blaming you for having white skin and European ancestors.”
“And them?”
“They need to forgive the people who did bad things in the past. But that’s not your problem. It’s between me and them.”
So, I’m working on it. And maybe because I’m at least trying to be faithful about it, I had a little “Ah ha!” moment today when I saw those two comments on the Gingrich video.
Suppose you have had a brilliant career that has enriched the lives of countless human beings around the world and you’re sitting on a dais, in front of hundreds of people, at a dinner in your honor. But instead of recounting even one of your many accomplishments, every single speaker talks on and on, in excruciating detail, about every one of your most embarrassing moments, biggest mistakes and worst wrong choices, from the time you wet your pants in kindergarten to the parking ticket you got last week.
Isn’t that just what America Haters do?
I’m not saying we should sugar-coat our history by any means. But the fact is that the United States of America is an EXCEPTIONAL NATION with an EXCEPTIONAL HISTORY that we should study and teach to our children. We have more than a right, we have a need as a nation to be both proud of the good stuff and enlightened by the bad stuff.
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I got a phone call yesterday from someone asking me for money to help the poor American indians who are having trouble heating their teepees this year because of the high costs of oil.
There was a time when I felt sorry for them. Now I see them as just another community that are being held down by their own leaders because of all the social welfare programs. When a community does not have to work, they won’t.
Just think about how hard their ancestors worked to stay warm. Maybe they should pay homage to their ancestors by working equally as hard!
But the main reason I lost empathy is because every year they come to Chicago and bang their damn drums and hold up signs saying Christopher Columbus was a murderer, as they disrupt the Columbus Day parade in Chicago.This is a parade for those of us with Italian ancestry to celebrate our roots and they make it political. Columbus was dead, long before settlers and Indians went to war.
And when people defend the Indians, they never mention the fact that they were busy killing and scalping other Indians, long before the white man appeared. It infuriates me that they are allowed to rain on the Italian parade. Maybe we should be able to get in their face about how they scalped farmers wives and kidnaped their kids as slaves.
There use to be a time when you could be proud to be American and still celebrate your roots. Now you can only celebrate your ROOTS if you are black, hispanic, or Indian. If your roots are European, you are murderers and opportunists. You need to pay reparations.
My ancestors worked their butts off farming from sun up to sun down. I am proud of them. I am sick of being told I need to apologize for them.
It is time to bring back the slogan, “America, love it or leave it.”
And while we are at it, can we just take off the racial identity box from EVERY document. As long as people are being asked what kind of hyphenated version of AMERICAN they are, we will never be All-American.
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Just want to remind everyone … I am “the Hyphenated” because Dearest and I chose to hyphenate our last names when we got married. 🙂
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