Uniting America

For my entire 73 years of life, I have never nor will I ever refer to myself as a WHITE AMERICAN or a NON-HISPANIC WHITE who just happens to be a citizen of America.

Let the RACES and ETHNIC GROUPS celebrate their ETHNICITIES or whatever else it is that they want to celebrate but until we refer to ourselves simply as AMERICANS, we will continue to live in a country of racial discrimination.

Giving African Americans more money, more education, better employment, better housing, better healthcare is NOT GOING TO STOP THEM from referring to themselves as African Americans or seeing themselves as African Americans...   and, until our leaders realize this....  NO CULTURAL AWARENESS TRAINING or getting in touch WITH ONE'S WHITENESS is going to work.

NO...  I am not loaded with COLLEGE DEGREES to support my opinion...   I am just looking at this from a logical perspective and using the military as an example.

Why do you think there is so little discrimination in the military?

I said LITTLE not NONE...

There is gender discrimination and racial discrimination BUT NOT MUCH OF EITHER...

Why do you think that is?

The military has bent over backwards to make sure all their personnel see themselves first as soldiers, then as Americans defending other Americans...

Soldiers defend FREEDOM

Soldiers are loyal to their country not to an ethnic group or a race

Soldiers are united by codes of conduct

Soldiers see themselves as one body of thought to be directed

Americans are NOT SOLDIERS in the truest sense of the word, yet because of their ethnicities they are willing to fight like soldiers in the streets of our cities as they burn and loot that which belongs to their brothers...

For Most Americans:

• There is no harmony
• There is no unity
• There is no IDEAL of being an AMERICAN   

Americans:

• are either white or black
• wealthy or poor
• educated or not educated
• employed or not employed
• democrat or republican
• independent or socialist
• religious or non religious
• obese or average
• leaders or followers
• married or not married

Our BILL OF RIGHTS underscores our desires never to become UNITED or see ourselves are ONE... it may take you a minute to receive this clarity but it is there right in front of you...  hiding in plain sight...

OUR FREEDOMS PREVENT US FROM BECOMING UNITED...