Don't Look if Politically Correct People ANNOY you

[Mr 5 0]

Originally posted by mean81GT

I work with a black man. Tell me if this is what you people see too. Whenever America as a whole does something against another country (i.E. Afghanistan) he makes a statement like "americans think this..." or " american's think that...". I ask him what nationality he is, and he says he is Jamaican. He has lived in this country for over 35 years.

Unfortunately, too many modern immigrants who left their homelands and came to America to escape poverty and oppression never seem to be willing to adopt America or attempt to assimilate into our national culture.

They want it both ways; enjoying all the freedoms, economic and personal, of America but maintain their birth nationality, act as a 'foreigner' and criticize America at every turn. Hypocrisy on stilts, if you ask me.

Our grandparents and great-grandparents were often immigrants, spoke the native language at home, ate the ethnic foods, celebrated the ethnic holidays and so on, but also learned to speak English (or the kids did) and adopted America as their home while retaining their heritage. It made sense and worked well for 200 years.

Now, we have to practically cater to foreigners (don't get me started on the Spanish language concessions we've made in an English-speaking country) and 'diversity' has become a religion to some, especially in government. More like politicians pandering to whatever ethnic group they can con votes from.

A country's strength is in unity, not diversity. A diverse people coming together has always been America's greatest strength. Not a Balkanized America with endless little enclaves of hyphenated Americans that consider themselves permanent foreigners and cling to a national identity and a 'homeland' that they once fled from but - once safe and relatively prosperous in America - now look to as their 'real' home as they find fault (seemingly endlessly) with the very country that gave them a better life. Go figure.

Your Jamaican friend is a fine example of this hypocrisy in action and it's partially fueled by anti-American liberals who manipulate immigrants with the concept that they're somehow 'oppressed' by (mostly invisible) racism and that any personal failures are not their failures but are caused by 'America', racism and the evil 'white people' who want to oppress them. Gimme a break!

It makes me puke when I hear this drivel but it's swallowed whole by far too many 'people of color' as well as latinos and others. Asian immigrants however, seem to bypass this Marxist crapola and proceed straight to dignity and prosperty in many cases, which the other groups seem to envy and complain about but refuse to emulate, to their loss.

As I stated in an earlier post; victimhood is the fashion now, as well as a thinly disguised anti-Americanism and for blacks, a perpetual grievance about a slavery that they know only from history books.

It's pathetic but it's also the fruit of years of leftist-driven black 'leaders' and white liberals preaching the 'noblity' of victimhood and the endless complaint of 'racism' when none exists.

Those figures I quoted for black poverty, prison population, illegitimacy, school drop-out rates are all quite real but are routinely waved away by the liberals and black 'leaders' as 'proof' of racism. Neat, huh? When a black person gets knocked up, commits a crime and goes to jail, flunks school or won't get a job, it's your fault, 'Whitey'. So, with this mindset, there is no need to improve and the 'ghetto culture' thrives while the black population falls deeper and deeper into decline and still, it's everyone else's fault.

Sorry, I don't buy it.

Unlike your Jamaican friend, I know some black guys that went to college, stayed away from drugs and promscuity and now have very nice jobs and a comfortable lifestyle and never claimed 'oppression' or racism held them down. As a black friend once said to me; 'Middle-class, educated blacks have no spokesman' to trumpet the truth that America, while far from perfect, is still the land of opportunity for all who take hold of what's offered and don't wait for it to be handed to them.

Black people have risen to every level of Americam society; including Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Senator, Congressman, Governor, Mayor, Police Chief, College President, on and on, including the more obvious successes in the sports and entertainment fields.

America is still the Land of Opportunity; millions prove it by coming here - illegally and legally - every year. Unfortunately, many immigrants also find it preferable to play the 'native' card and not only criticize America (that's fair) but whine about racism and other phantom evils that suppopsedly 'oppress' them.
Funny, but while they send home plenty of American dollars earned in this oppressive land and enjoy the freedom to complain about it, precious few ever decide to leave and return to the 'old country'. Wonder why? I don't. They never had it so good and they know it, but playing the oppressed, victimized foreigner is easier than just adopting American culture and going after what you want the old fashioned way, buy working and sweating for it and taking responsibility for your own failures and mistakes. Easier to just 'Blame America First'.

I'm sick of it, as you may have noticed.