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THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN BIGOT

Honorably discharged Veteran of the United States Navy. Hobbies include Political, Historical, Philosophical reading, maintaining www.fedupwithpc.com, contributing to fedupwithpc as Thinker822, and running my Consulting Company.

By Allan J. Ashinoff
July 23, 2005

A cynical man is he who has seen the world long enough to watch his idealisms degrade into fallacy and his fears evolve into reality."

- Allan J. Ashinoff, June 2005

America is a culturally diverse nation. This diversity has been a celebrated asset throughout the years and filled the nation with pride. Neighbors can be any variety of colors, ethnic background, or religion and be accepted as Americans. Often time’s citizenship is achieved long after an immigrant has been American in his heart and in the eyes of his co-workers and neighbors. Unlike almost any nation on earth America is a patchwork of the best and sometimes the worst of the worlds colors, languages, foods, and beliefs. Hope is America ’s cloth and promise sews it together in the form of the American dream. The American dream is the foundation of what every American or immigrant has in common. It is this singular desire which unites the diversity and allows century’s old ethnic hatreds to be set aside for a common and noble goal.

It is a truly rare event to find any patriotic “my country right or wrong� Americans anymore. These types of citizens were once plentiful and unafraid to be heard. Today one would be hard pressed to find someone of this type and even be more hard pressed to get him to vocalize his feelings publicly. Americans are deathly afraid to be labeled “racist� or “bigot� or, it appears, “too American�. The degree of effort to avoid such confrontation has reached the absurd. Arab people must not be singled out at airports simply because the large majority of terrorist attacking America are of Arab descent. So instead of singling out this man with the two foot beard and turban, security pats down an 8 year old boy with a superman action figure or the 78 year old white guy who just happens to be a US senator. Americans are so afraid of what others may think of them that they would risk their lives and their nation to be perceived as compassionate and caring.

In this environment we find Joe American. Joe is very proud of his American heritage. In fact Joe was raised in liberal New York and educated in public schools through the 1970’s. Befriended by and to people of various ethnic backgrounds and beliefs all his life he now faces what he considers unthinkable after nearly a half century of living. Joe American is irritatingly aware that he is becoming a bigot.

Why would Joe, who understands just how un-American bigotry is, allow himself to be drawn into such a state? It’s a question he’s agonized over for quite some time. He can’t help but loath himself when he hears of dozens of illegal aliens dying in the desert heat while crossing into America and realizes that he feels nothing over the loss of life. It’s something he torments himself over as he drives around and sees more and more Spanish only business signs popping up. It was the source of his near ulcer when his business was failing and he couldn’t receive help because he wasn’t Hispanic, black, or female. The bigotry within him is something he can feel growing stronger as President Bush calls the Minutemen “vigilantes�, and as a governor uses her authority to invalidate an overwhelmingly passed people’s proposition to stop illegal aliens from receiving large portions social benefits paid for by US citizens just like Joe. America has changed to work against Joe and he knows it’s not an isolated thing. Joe knows that if his vote and his voice combined with the majority of his state are not enough to affect change locally then things will get much worse before they get better. If local politicians, who are directly accountable to their immediate public, ignore the will of their people then how much less concerned is the federal government to the will of the entire American population? When did those elected to serve the peoples interests start dictating the people’s needs?

The America Joe grew up with has changed and Joe is angry. The America he was bequeathed, worked for, and earned through honorable military service has eroded into something Joe can not bring himself to accept. America, it appears, is every non-American’s everything and Americans are increasingly less entitled to the nations fruits and entirely obligated to pay the bill Joe was stunned, repulsed, and then angered when he found out illegal aliens are now eligible for FDIC home loans when his sister couldn’t receive a home loan not that long ago. When California offered in-state college tuition to illegal aliens while a friend had to pay much more for his schooling just because he wasn’t from California or Mexico, Joe lost all hope.

Joe can draw parallels between his feelings of hostility toward anything Spanish and Germany ’s anger toward immigrants in the 1940’s. He can see that without a Government who takes its peoples concerns seriously that the next wave of minutemen may well be armed and ready to shoot in the moonlight at the illegal immigrants as they cross the desert. Joe is not the kind who would go hunting men but he knows that for every one like him there may be one or two who would see sniping in the desert as a patriotic deterrent. Joe couldn’t support vigilantes such as these but he can certainly understand why some Americans could feel as they do. He also knows that if things go on as they have it will require nothing short of blood to get the Mexican government to show respect for America ’s border, culture, and identity. Must it take lives for the American government to finally listen to what referendum after referendum and poll after poll in many states has consistently said: Control our border, protect our sovereignty, and protect our rights as Americans.

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."

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The lives of America’s martyr’s will either correct the prevailing political ambivalence or it will be the spark the powder keg for the undoing of everything Joe has known and loved about his country.

Massive violence in this country would tear it apart and we might never recover from it. We must do anything we can to prevent it from coming to that, but with each passing day it is more and more likley that violence will have to occur to solve this problem.

Originally Posted by ChrisF202

The lives of America’s martyr’s will either correct the prevailing political ambivalence or it will be the spark the powder keg for the undoing of everything Joe has known and loved about his country.

Massive violence in this country would tear it apart and we might never recover from it. We must do anything we can to prevent it from coming to that, but with each passing day it is more and more likley that violence will have to occur to solve this problem.

I am seeing much more of this belief among my contacts, and you may be correct. Lets hope it does not come to that.

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"No man's life, liberty, or properties are safe while the legislature is in session."

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Gosh, what a great post!

Homeland Security....what a HUGE taypayer funded JOKE!

What are they doing for us, really? Our borders are wide open and our governments policies are so PC paralyzed that we loath to target folks that LOOK AND ACT like the terrorists that we KNOW killed 3000+ innocent Americans? We caught these murderers on video tape for crying out loud, as did the British!!

What? If it walks like a duck...pretend you dont notice lest you offend someone? My take? Folks that DONT WANT TO DIE, regardless of ethnicity, are NOT offended in the least by profiling.

Thanks for taking the time to read my article and reply. I do have many others written on immigration which are also online but from slightly different perspectives. Hopefully all of theose pieces are as compelling to people as this one has been. Thanks again.

Allan