“This is a nation — not a polyglot boarding house.
There is not room in the country for any 50-50 American,
nor can there be but one loyalty — to the Stars and Stripes.”
Theodore Roosevelt The Washington Post. "Use Only English, Roosevelt Urges." 28 May 1918
I don’t care what the kids intentions were!
I don’t care if the school told them not to wear the shirts because it would be a distraction!
I don’t care if it is Cinco de Mayo!
And I don’t care if all of the Mexican students were offended!
If you live in America and find the American flag offensive…
Pack your bags and move!!!
This is America!
Love It,or Leave it!
We took that land from Mexico fair and square over 150 years ago. In both 1835 and 1845, the United States offered to purchase California from Mexico, for $5 million and $25 million, respectively. The Mexican government refused the opportunity to sell half of its country to us so we took it from them during the Mexican American War (1846-1848). Not only did we kill over 20,000 Mexicans to make this claim, but on February 2, 1848, The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo was signed and was later to be ratified by both the U.S. and Mexican Congresses. The treaty called for the annexation of the northern portions of Mexico to the United States. In return, the U.S. agreed to pay $15 million to Mexico as compensation for the seized territory. What other country pays someone for the land that they already took by force?
It is high time that we stop worrying about offending people who live in America and don’t want to be an American. This is our country, and if you would prefer to celebrate Cinco de Mayo than the Fourth of July then screw you man go back to Mexico.
I will end with comments from a letter written by President Theodore Roosevelt shortly before his death in January 1919, just a few months after the armistice that ended the fighting in World War I:
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American.
If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul [sic] loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."
http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/troosevelt.pdf
There is not room in the country for any 50-50 American,
nor can there be but one loyalty — to the Stars and Stripes.”
Theodore Roosevelt The Washington Post. "Use Only English, Roosevelt Urges." 28 May 1918
I don’t care what the kids intentions were!
I don’t care if the school told them not to wear the shirts because it would be a distraction!
I don’t care if it is Cinco de Mayo!
And I don’t care if all of the Mexican students were offended!
If you live in America and find the American flag offensive…
Pack your bags and move!!!
This is America!
Love It,or Leave it!
We took that land from Mexico fair and square over 150 years ago. In both 1835 and 1845, the United States offered to purchase California from Mexico, for $5 million and $25 million, respectively. The Mexican government refused the opportunity to sell half of its country to us so we took it from them during the Mexican American War (1846-1848). Not only did we kill over 20,000 Mexicans to make this claim, but on February 2, 1848, The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo was signed and was later to be ratified by both the U.S. and Mexican Congresses. The treaty called for the annexation of the northern portions of Mexico to the United States. In return, the U.S. agreed to pay $15 million to Mexico as compensation for the seized territory. What other country pays someone for the land that they already took by force?
It is high time that we stop worrying about offending people who live in America and don’t want to be an American. This is our country, and if you would prefer to celebrate Cinco de Mayo than the Fourth of July then screw you man go back to Mexico.
I will end with comments from a letter written by President Theodore Roosevelt shortly before his death in January 1919, just a few months after the armistice that ended the fighting in World War I:
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American.
If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American.
We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one soul [sic] loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."
http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/troosevelt.pdf
