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Dear fellow American,
Will we still be the Country of choice and still be America if we
continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other
countries that came to live in America because it is the Country of
Choice??????
First, I'd like to thank you Random, Anonymous Emailer, for including
me on you random, anonymous e-mail list. You took the time to include
me, and I'll do you the courtesy of reading and responding. I feel like
I've made a new friend already, don't you? So, Ummm… are we really the country of choice? especially with the recent election, let's think on this, shall we --

The Supreme court? Soon to be stacked
Women's right to choose? Soon to be repealed.
Sensible immigration reform? Never gonna happen.
Rights and services for the poor, disabled and disenfranchaised? Yeah, right.
Tolerance for difference? ? Never been.
Affordable health care? Nope.
Affordable higher education? Not anywhere on the horizon.
Sensible foreign policy? Clearly not.
Seperation of church and state? Bad and about to get worse.
Not to mention, where's my same sex marriage?

Choice is a funny thing you know, if you ask me, everyone doesn't really have equal choice
in this country, I mean, you recognize that the choices one person has
is not the same as another person has, right? Choice, and the ones
affored you are informed by who you are and where you started. Everyone
knows that, right?

Think about it .
Oh yes, Random, Anonymous e-mailer, I will.

All I have to say is, when will they do something about MY RIGHTS?
Is that really all you have to say? I mean, it looks like this is pretty long.

I celebrate Christmas,
Yeah, I love Christmas, all the lights and food and yummies. Ohhh, good times.

but because it isn't celebrated by everyone, we can no longer say Merry Christmas.
Well, I don’t think you can’t say it. I think that you can, go ahead, say it, you know you want to, let that cheer out! I, for one, choose to say season’s greetings to people if I’m not sure of where they fall on the jesus-o-meter, I
think it’s just, you know, nice and respectful, but you, who says ya
gotta be like me?

Now it has to be Season's Greetings.
It's not Christmas vacation, it's Winter Break. Isn't it amazing how
this winter break ALWAYS occurs over the Christmas holiday?
Yeah, it also occurs over Chanukah, Chinese New Year, Diwali, Kwanza,
occasionally Ramadan, St Lucia’s Day, and damn close to St. Nicholas
day, Tet, and Taeborum. Also, just for the record, the reason that all
of these holidays occur during the winter is because a long time ago,
before you had the choice of forced air or radiators, people needed a
little pick-me-up through these long cold months, large celebrations
that included gifts, food, and well wishes were just what the pagan
gods ordered. Later, when organized religions came into the picture,
those in charge of the different churches, picked this very same time
because they knew that people would adopt anything as long as it came
with a rockin’ good party. You know, kinda like today. Yep, I could
point you to the research if ya want to actually do any before you
spout off.

We've gone so far the other way, bent over backwards to not offend anyone,
gone so far the other way? So you are admitting that we were offensive, right? Good, as long as we both understand one another.

that I am now being offended. But it seems that no one has a problem with that. This says it all!
No, come on Random, Anonymous E-mailer, I care. Really I do.

IMMIGRANTS, NOT AMERICANS, MUST ADAPT.
Yeah, and I’d say they do a hell of a job, especially since there’s so many nice people like you to show them the ropes.

I am tired of this nation worrying about
whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the
terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, we have experienced a surge in
patriotism by the majority of Americans. However, the dust from the
attacks had barely settled when the "politically correct! " crowd began
complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending
others.
Well, RAE, you don’t mind if I call you that do you, it’s so much easier than writing Random, Anonymous Emailer each time, plus, each time I’ve gotta spell check Anonymous damn public school! Anyway RAE, I think what the politically correct crowd was complaining about was the possibility of our racism
offending others. You have to admit we’ve a bit of a mob mentality here
in the good ole US of A. Heck, Ida B. Wells used to write about it, how
if a white woman said she’d been attacked by a man of color, any man
with more than a tan better watch out, hang man’s comin’ and all. Yeah,
I think that’s what the PC crowd was trying to avoid, the idea from
spreading that anyone the least bit middle eastern was trying to jihad
us right in our evil bush.

I am not against immigration,
Really? ‘Cause ya are startin’ to sound a bit like you might be.

nor do I hold a grudge against anyone
who is seeking a better life by coming to America. Our population is
almost entirely made up of descendants of immigrants.

Ohh, good, you know that, I was afraid I was gonna have to point that
out. Our population is in fact entirely made up of descendents of
immigrants, except of course those who were indigenous to this land,
but umm…we weren’t very PC to those people. Oh wait, your not
suggesting…no, I’m sure you’re not.

However,
Oh shit.

there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here,
ohhh, I’m excited, I think this means me…

multicultural community
yep, that’s what we are, I’m right there with ya! Yeah for
Multi-Cultural communities, I mean, that’s all America could be given
our rooty-toot roots. Yeah, I love it too!

has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity.
Huh? Ya lost me there. dilute

our sovereignty? Our national identity? Didn’t you and I just have that
whole discussion about how this land (which is your land and this land
is my land) was established by immigrants? Also, I’m not sure you know
what sovereignty means, which, ya know, I understand – it’s a
motherfuckin’ big word. It sure sounds important though, smart too, I
sure do like you, RAE!

As Americans, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language
Ahem. Sorry RAE, but I have to interject again, just to make sure that
you know that English, and I imagine you’re referring to English, isn’t
just our language, take the following countries for example, it’s either the official language or spoken by the majority of people: Antigua and
Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda,
Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominica Fiji, The
Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho,
Liberia, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United
Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Not to mention that America is like, one of the last countries where
the majority of it’s people’s still only speak one language.

I’d also like to point out, and you probably already know this, that
English is a hard ass language to learn as an adult. Like, way harder
than most. I mean, you seem to do fine, but me, I still have trouble
and I scored a 36 on the Language portion of the ACT! Let’s give mad
props to those that do learn it ‘k?

and our own lifestyle.
Yeah, you’re not kiddin’ there, though I wouldn’t be super quick to
brag, I mean, what has our lifestyle produced? Video games, fast food,
slavery, racism, sitcoms, KKK, hummers, crack, highest rate of violent
crime? Yeah, scary stuff, but there is Celine Dion, don’t ya just love
her? Man, when she hits those high notes...

This culture has been developed over
centuries of struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and
women who have sought freedom.
Wow, has it been that long? Isn’t it great when something finally hits the 200 mark and you get to start saying centuries. Wow.

We speakENGLISH, not Spanish,
Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language.
Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the
language!

Heck, RAE, speak for yourself. I, for one, took Japanese in college and
I know a smattering of Spanish too. I even have a friend that speaks
Russian, oh, but he’s from Russia so maybe that doesn’t count.

"In God We Trust" is our national motto.
Ohh, this is where things might start to go a little south between us
RAE, I’m a bit of a heritic, hell, I’ll just say it, I’m a god damned
atheist. However, we’d all do well to remember that the word GOD is
English for supreme being, and since most religions have supreme
beings, in god we trust could pretty much cover the needs of any religious nut with a computer. Oh, I hope that didn’t offend, I’ve been trying really hard not to, ‘cause like I said earlier RAE, I do really care.

This is not some Christian, right wing,
political slogan.. We adopted this motto because Christian men and
women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is
clearly documented.
Wellll…You are right, it is a
national motto. Though it wasn’t the motto this country was founded on,
that motto was E Pluribus Unum, adopted in 1776, you know, the
beginning of the Revolutionary War. It means out of many, one, in case ya didn’t know. The other one, in god we trust that didn’t come around until 1958, yep, less than 50 years ago RAE.

It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools.
Did you take debate in high school? Maybe that program was cut in your
school, lemme let you in on a trick of proving an argument, if you’re
gonna use evidence for points A and B, don’t make point C which refutes
the previous evidence you used to back up A and B. Like this, see, you
go on and on about the founding fathers of this country and how they
were right, motto, victory, blah blah blah, and then you say this, how
it’s appropriate to display God on the walls of school. Well, the
founding fathers took pains to write into the Constitution a foundation
for separation, I think, to protect both church and state. Now here I’m
gonna go and not take my advice because while I am thankful that they
wrote in this separation dealio, I still think they were a pack of
greedy assholes, but, well, that’s well documented too. We’re still
friends right RAE?

If God offends you,
Well, I wouldn’t say he offends me so much as humors and confuses me. I
mean, I can dig on the streets of gold, but what’s the deal with the
beard and the winged things?

then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.

And, like we established earlier, god, or shall we say supreme being, is pretty much a part of every culture. It’s like part and parcel, you wanna culture, ya gotta take the god.

If Stars and Stripes offend you,
Ohh, stripes, I’m offended by stripes, shifty little bastards! I'm like a lion, how'm I gonna take down that stripe-y zebra, all confusing like he is?

or you don't like Uncle Sam,
oh, uncle sam, yeah, I’m not really a fan. He’s based on Samual Wilson,
who was in the business of providing beef in barrels to the US Army,
and see, I’m vegan, so, eeew. Also, there’s that whole representing the US gov’t thing he’s got going, so not cool. I mean, I do have the guy tattooed
on my arm but that's more in a villian capacity, you know?

then you shoud seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.
Haven’t I tried. You don’t even know. It's damned hard. I even got a book once from the library.

We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change,
Really? You think so? Then how come the almost 50/50 vote split in the
past several major elections? Yeah, I think some of us wanna change and
change the perception of Americans.

and we really don't care how you did things where you came from.
You’re starting to sound not very nice RAE, did I misjudge you?

This is OUR COUNTRY,
Ours? You mean every citizen, right?

our land,
Yep, we did steal it fair and square.

and our lifestyle. Our First Amendment gives every citizen
oh good, I knew you meant every citizen.

the right to express his opinion and we
will allow you every opportunity to do so! But once you are done
complaining, whining, and griping about our flag, our pledge, our
national motto, or our way of life, I highly encourage you take
advantage of one other great American freedom, THE RIGHT TO LEAVE.

Once again, I’m not sure you did your homework, the right to leave
isn’t actually one of our great American freedoms. In fact, it’s damn
hard to leave this country, believe me, I’ve looked into it quite a bit.

It is Time for America to Speak up
Yeah, cause too often we’re the wallflower of the world.

If you agree -- pass this along;
if you don't agree -- delete it!
ohhh, it’s so hard to decide, which one will I do? I just don’t know.
Either way, RAE, I’ve enjoyed our time together, you really gave me a
lot to think about, I hope I’ve returned the favor.

AMEN

Fuck you.

Posted by jacey at July 15, 2005 06:55 AM