“I know that it is red meat for his (my opponents) base that are xenophobic and racist to say to them that I am (he is) going to find a way to arrest and deport a member of Congress (Illhan Omar) who he thinks is doing something wrong when I am doing the right thing in trying to make sure everybody that is within my constituency has the resources and the information that they need.”
Illhan Omar
Somali Congress-Critter — Dem. Mn.
CNN Interview
As what is now called a “heritage American” I can not see the problem in being xenophobic or racist, given the fact that Christian Americans were for centuries xenophobic and racist.
Consider the xenophobic and racist nature of our own US Constitution where it was written;
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Keep in mind that both those who offered up this Constitution as well as those who later ratified this Constitution were all, without exception, White Europeans who were shaped by Christian categories. By the standards of Congress-critter Illhan Omar they were each and all xenophobic and racist. That was demonstrated again in 1790 the Naturalization Act which gave the US the first uniform rule for the granting of US citzenship. It read;
“That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof …”
In addition to the above the US Courts linked whiteness with Christianity thus excluding Muslim immigrants from US citizenship until 1944 with the SCOTUS decision of Ex Parte Mohriez. Given that reality then by the standards of Mooselimb Congress-Critter Illhan Omar all Americans were racist and xenophobic until 1944.
President Calvin Coolidge, by the standards of Illhan Omar was a xenophobe and racist. No big deal.
“There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.”
President Calvin Coolidge
The Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, by Illhan Omar’s standard would be a xenophobe and racist;
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln vs. Douglas Debate
Many more quotes from famous Americans could be reproduced with all of them suggesting that there is nothing ignoble about an American being a xenophobe or racist. Indeed, an argument could be made that part of what being a heritage American is, is being xenophobic and racist. Now of course xenophobe is a bit of a misnomer since no heritage American is afraid of the foreigner and the alien. Instead they are merely convinced that just as Japan should be for the Japanese and/or China should be for the Chinese it is the historic position, until the last 60 years or so, that America should be for the White European Christian. This is what our forefathers thought and this is what many contemporary Americans think and the only shame in such a position is the shame that comes from the race Marxists forever bleating that some people might well resist their agenda.
We should also say that, historically thinking, Americans have been broad-minded enough to allow a small percentage of non-Americans to live in our midst. However, at this point in our history, with the clear agenda present to diminish and even replace the white population in America what is required is a return to a 1924 type immigration act in order to keep America American.
Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
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On the origin of the U.S. flag’s stripes:
“The stripes came from the six sections of the shield, which formed part of the original device of a seal proposed for the United States. These six sections, or quarterings of the escutcheon, were intended to designate the six European countries from which the United States had been chiefly peopled: to wit, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and Holland. In drawing these six sections on the shield-figure, seven spaces of the original colors were, of course, left, which gave to the whole the appearance of thirteen bars, or stripes.” p. 198.
Alexander Stephens, ‘History of the United States’, AFP Reprint 1999.
Fascinating. That is something I did not know. I would not have thought though, that originally the Irish would have been thought as being a main people group that founded this nation. I would have guessed that the Irish didn’t come until much later with the heavy immigration in the 1800s.
Thanks for that.