Racism in MY AMERICA....from an unlikely source

Here we go again! I have found yet another thing that IRRITATES the hell out of me and I think needs to be said...

Flipping through the TV channels with my trusty remote by my side I stop by a news story dedicated to an Irish-American festival. I dismiss it and continue in search of a better source of entertainment. The next day I am in Allentown to play some football and I witness some Hispanic-American signs during a rally. A couple days later I hear that a popular sports coach has received an African-American coaching award...

1st things 1st ... Congratulations to anyone who gets the recognition they deserve. NOW.. STOP WITH THE (-) AMERICAN CRAP!!!!!
I understand being proud of your heritage but you are a citizen of this country and that makes you a plain jane red white and blue AMERICAN!!!! If you are not a citizen of this country, perhaps you soon will be.

I have to wonder if some people are not ashamed to be an AMERICAN!?!?!? I understand this country has its problems but it remains the GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE PLANET and probably the only country where people could get away with the nomenclature that is used.
By strict definition anyone who groups themselves away from any other group is commiting RACISM! To understand this you have to step beyond the color lines and see racism in all its forms. Now I am not opposed to groups of people celebrating their heritage in ways that they choose but when they knowingly call themselves something other than or more than just AMERICANS they are separating themselves from me and are (you guessed it) committing RACISM! I think people need to be proud of this country that they call home and that allows them to celebrate their ancestral heritage.

The divisiveness needs to STOP! You are an AMERICAN and you should come to terms with that and be proud of it. I mean seriously, can you really call yourself anything other than an AMERICAN when you were born in HOBOKEN NEW JERSEY!!!???!!!

Maybe I should just call myself a Palmerton-Irish-German-Northumberland County American and join the "majority", or perhaps everyone should join me in singing Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be an American" and really believe what that song says... just perhaps

In ending I will say RACISM (no matter where it comes from) is whats wrong with MY AMERICA


"If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife.
I’d thank my lucky stars,
to be livin here today.
‘ Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.
And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.
From the lakes of Minnesota,
to the hills of Tennessee.
Across the plains of Texas,
From sea to shining sea.
From Detroit down to Houston,
and New York to L.A.
Well there's pride in every American heart,
and its time we stand and say.
That I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.
And I’m proud to be and American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA."

Lee Greenwood