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Topic: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on
    Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

   

    'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in
    good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be
    treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to
    dis criminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or
    origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an
    American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance
    here . Any man who says he is an American, but something else also,
    isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American
    flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English
    language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty
    to the American people.



Geee.... Imagine that.

Being an American AND Speaking English ??
How rude of him.
   

    Theodore
    Roosevelt 1907

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

I'm missing the point completely here, but I bet inside your head it confirms some aspect of your black-white rightwing thinking.

Pleaaase say something along those line!

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

that's why you move to canada big_smile

they welcome everyone with open hands lol big_smile

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

Ofcourse your missing the point.  A left-wing Socialist globalist would.  Especially when they see it as ...

Black - White thinking ??

Yes, Im always Right. big_smile

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

The point is that anybody saying what TR said would be denounced as a nativist bigot.

Most shrilly denounced by TR's biggest fan, Senator John McDuck

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

Yes BW, black& white thinking. 
Yes BW, black& white thinking. (once for every question mark!)

You also forgot to put elitist in. You're slipping!

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

TD was an anti-capitalist

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

To resort to going back to 1907 to find someone who agrees with your viewpoint is really scraping the barrel.

tweehonderd graden, dat is waarom ze me mr. fahrenheit noemen, ik reis aan de snelheid van het licht, ik ga een supersonische man van u maken

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

All in the sect Black_Wings is in agrees with him Sitting Duck. They agree to all their leader tells them ofc smile
"The sect of the Right wing people of USA [All others suck and therefor can never be correct]"
Also known as "TSotRWPoU[Aosatcnbc]" for short.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

sd, it could also be a sign that the political culture has strayed from its predecessors, its tradition. personally i don't think its bad to hearken to the words of our founding fathers or great leaders like old Abe.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

How is it scraping the barrel to go back 100 years?  I admit its a cheap trick to play on people who refuse to be able to identify all the guys on Mount Rushmore, but why should I abandon the country to them?

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

Well, I agree with what Teddy said here. Immigrants should adopt the same language and demonstrate their loyalty to our state and no others. It is more efficient for there to be one language and mode of communication, and we are more secure if they are loyal to our state.

Liberals for some reason seem to place a value on the preservation of cultures. I don't know why. It makes no sense.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

I would like to hear McCain explain why those of us who agree with TR's statement are nativist bigots.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

bbc has an article by some archbishop of canterbury saying basically the same thing. it's not an outdated concept

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

Is it just me or is BW going more and more crazy?

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

Just you.

Or more likely you're picking up the insane vibes from American politics.

But its not BW.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

Isnt it just Fantasic ??!!??!!

I have such a fan club....I know you all just cant wait to test ole BW.

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Notice the Last part  I posted:

Being an American AND Speaking English ??
How rude of him.


dummies.

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Yes BW, it's great. woot woot. If you'll just take your pills now, we'll give you some more positive or negative attention, as you chose to interprete it. Rock on, and try not to think about how you come across.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

MLK's dream is so far right now, it's not even funny.  The moment we stop writing statistics based on race is the moment we've gone beyond the race issue.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

amen to that

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

There were lots of ethnocentrists in the early part of the 20th century...Roosevelt, Hitler...the list goes on and on. tongue

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

USA doesn't have an official state language so the people talk in whatever fucing language they like.

What's wrong with preserving ones culture in another country...
You can't forget where you have come from or who you are.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

> paul valter pihlo wrote:

> USA doesn't have an official state language so the people talk in whatever fucing language they like.

What's wrong with preserving ones culture in another country...
You can't forget where you have come from or who you are.

It is when a given cultural unit is inefficient or maladaptive to the economic circumstances of the country you enter.

I'm Swedish and German. Do I care? No.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelts America: 1907

How is Roosevelt an ETHNOcentrist?  Learning a languauge is an intellectual feat not a trademark of bloodline.

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