Thread: PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN: NOT A HYPHENATED-AMERICAN

PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN: NOT A HYPHENATED-AMERICAN

July 16, 2012 by ppjg
John Wallace/ Contributing writer
Liberty News Online
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It seems that America has become a country obsessed with classifying its citizens into different racial and ethnic sub-groups. President Obama is routinely called the first Black president, but isn’t he also half white? To be more accurate, isn’t he really the first mixed race president? The media and special interest groups constantly refer to him as the Black president. Americans are constantly being bombarded by government and media reports of the first Hispanic person to do this, the first Asian person to do that, or the first Black person to do something else.

My message to the government bureaucrats, the special interest groups and the mass media is that the vast majority of Americans don’t care what a person’s race or ethnic origin is. Throughout our history, Americans of all races and ethnic backgrounds have fought and died as one people to preserve this country’s freedoms and liberties, not to separate us or divide us into racial and ethnic groups.

America has always been known as a country of rugged individualism based on individual freedom and liberty, not race and ethnic origin. Most Americans do not care if Black people comprise 12.1% of the population or 14.3%. They do not care if Hispanic people comprise 19% or 28% of the population. The Racial and Ethnic classification of Americans is nothing more than institutionalized racism and must be ended. Rather than helping a diverse population become assimilated and united as one nation, the Federal government is doing what the Nazi government of Germany did in the 1930’s and 40’s; creating government supported institutionalized racism by the intentional classification of it’s citizens by race and ethnicity.

Americans are also beginning to realize that racial and ethnic identification is more a matter of personal choice than anything else. In the 2010 Census, millions of American citizens refused to place themselves into a single category by refusing to describe themselves as only white, black, Asian, Latino or any one of the other specific categories listed, because they were of mixed race. Attempts by the government to create a “mixed race” box for the U.S. Census has repeatedly been met with resistance by racial and ethnic special interest groups like the NAACP and the National Council of La Raza, because they feared that a mixed-race box could pose a danger to the justification for their existence.

The only groups that actively support the continued collection of racial and ethnic data are big government bureaucrats and “racial and ethnic special interest groups” that also happen to receive significant funding from the federal government.

These organizations argue that identifying people by race and ethnicity is necessary in order to redress some past injustice and that the federal government must continue to collect and use this information in order to set up special racial and ethnic programs, affirmative action quotas and other set-asides for these groups, many of whom now consist of new immigrants, illegal aliens and non-citizens. Nothing can be further from the truth. In a country where we can no longer ask people what religion they are, what their party affiliation is or what their sexual orientation is, why are we still asking them about their racial and ethnic background?

The fuzzier such racial and ethnic categories become, the harder it will be for these racial and ethnic special interest groups and the government to traffic in them. If a mixed-race category were to be added, every brown-skinned person of mixed race registered in this category would shrink the government’s official count of Blacks, Latinos, Asians or American Indians, eventually reducing their political influence and ultimately the amount of money these groups receive from the federal government, which amounts to approximately $200 billion a year.

With the support of racial and ethnic special interest groups, our federal government seems to view our citizens not just as Americans, but rather as “pawns” in some social science experiment to be classified and separated into different racial or ethnic sub-groups for some unknown purpose. By mandating the classification of Americans into specific racial and ethnic sub-groups, the federal government and the advocates of “diversity” are actually perpetuating institutionalized racism and keeping Americans artificially divided. Maybe that is their real plan.

If we want to help poor Americans escape poverty, get better health care, find a job or get a good education, why should it matter what their race or ethnic background is? The answer is: It should not! Americans need to come together as members of one country and remember that we are all individual Americans, regardless of race or ethnic background. Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired a nation when he voiced his dream for a color-blind nation, a nation in which people would be judged by the content of their characters, “not the color of their skin.”

The answer to this government encouraged racism is the concept of Liberty with a limited, constitutional government that is devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than the claims of different racial and ethnic special interest groups. Where Liberty is present, individual achievement and competence are rewarded, not people’s skin color or ethnicity.

The American people need legislation barring the federal government from the collection of racial and ethnic information about them and/or the classification of American citizens by race and ethnicity, including the collection of this data for census information. Exceptions should be made for law enforcement, hospitals and medical research purposes.
I am proud to be an American and it is none of the government’s business what my race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnic background is.

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John W. Wallace
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The fact is leaders of various minority groups live and make money on race propaganda also the Democrat party depends on those leaders for votes, it's not they care for the various groups they simply use them. If truly they(leaders) desire the melting pot then only the word American works.

Attempts by the government to create a “mixed race” box for the U.S. Census has repeatedly been met with resistance by racial and ethnic special interest groups like the NAACP and the National Council of La Raza, because they feared that a mixed-race box could pose a danger to the justification for their existence.

It would be terrible for these groups if the race industry stopped working for them. the "leaders" wouldn't be banging down those 6 and 7 figure salaries and living the elite political life, they might have to get a real job. They might even have to give up their drivers and bodyguards and that is one unemployment number that I would like to see increase. Perhaps the rich Socialist Democrats and the money makers in the race baiting industry need to provide their tax returns. JMO

Let's look at LaRaza as and example. Looks like Janet was making about $350,000.00 a year supporting "immigrants" to make $7 and hour. She found a way to live well and be successful off of the backs of the poor. JMO
Compensation of Leaders (FYE 09/2010)

Compensation	% of Expenses	Paid to	Title	Compensation from Affiliates
$309,417	0.76%	Janet Murguia	President, CEO	$40,716

http://www.charitynavigator.org/inde...ary&orgid=4171

Here is Ben Jealous of the NAACP. He is doing pretty well for himself in the race circus that he has been creating.
Compensation of Leaders (FYE 12/2010)

Compensation	% of Expenses	Paid to	Title
$274,730	0.96%	Benjamin Todd Jealous	President, CEO

Charity Navigator Rating - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Yes, let's make sure that these people pay "their fair share". JMO

Looks like Catholic Charities pays pretty well also.
Compensation of Leaders (FYE 12/2010)

Compensation	% of Expenses	Paid to	Title
$174,941	2.95%	Maria Odom	Executive Director

Mission

The Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) was established in 1988 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to support a rapidly growing network of community-based immigration programs. CLINIC's mission is to enhance and expand delivery of legal services to indigent and low income immigrants principally through diocesan immigration programs and to meet the immigration needs identified by the Catholic Church in the United States. CLINIC's network originally comprised 17 programs. It has since increased to 193 diocesan and other affiliated immigration programs with 260 field offices in 47 states. The network employs roughly 1,000 attorneys and accredited paralegals who, in turn, serve 600,000 low-income immigrants each year
Charity Navigator Rating - Catholic Legal Immigration Network

The SPLC
Compensation of Leaders (FYE 10/2011)

Compensation	% of Expenses	Paid to	Title
$299,477	0.86%	Richard Cohen	President, CEO
Other Salaries of Note
$305,121	0.88%	Morris Dees	Co-Founder, Chief Trial Counsel

Mission

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, SPLC is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. Throughout its history, SPLC has worked to make the nation's Constitutional ideals a reality. The SPLC legal department fights all forms of discrimination and works to protect society's most vulnerable members, handling innovative cases that few lawyers are willing to take. The SPLC Intelligence Project monitors hate groups and tracks extremist activity throughout the U.S. To combat the causes of hate, SPLC in 1991 established Teaching Tolerance, an educational program to help K-12 teachers foster respect and understanding in the classroom.

Charities Performing Similar Types of Work

• Highly Rated
• Most Viewed

Charity Name	Overall Score	Overall Rating
Southern Poverty Law Center - AL	59.57
Institute for Justice - VA	67.50
National Council of La Raza - DC	62.15
Center for Individual Rights - DC	56.78
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund - CA	63.48

Charity Navigator Rating - Southern Poverty Law Center

MALDEF

Compensation of Leaders (FYE 04/2011)

Compensation	% of Expenses	Paid to	Title
$180,000	2.85%	Thomas A. Saenz	President

Mission

Founded in 1968, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) is the nation's leading nonprofit Latino legal organization. Often described as the law firm of the Latino community, MALDEF promotes equality and justice through litigation, advocacy, public policy, and community education in the areas of employment, immigrants' rights, voting rights, education, and language rights. MALDEF strives to implement programs that are structured to bring Latinos into the mainstream of American political and socio-economic life; providing better educational opportunities; encouraging participation in all aspects of society; and offering a positive vision for the future. Unique to MALDEF is an approach that combines advocacy, educational outreach, and litigation strategies to achieve socio-economic change.

Charities Performing Similar Types of Work

• Highly Rated
• Most Viewed

Charity Name	Overall Score	Overall Rating
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund - CA	63.48
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law - NY	58.40
Southern Center for Human Rights - GA	59.58
Electronic Frontier Foundation - CA	56.48
WAND Education Fund - MA

Charity Navigator Rating - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund


Making money off of poverty at its best and supporting the demise of our laws and culture - for money it is an INDUSTRY. JMO