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We have room but for one flag, the American flag...a statement by Theodore Roosevelt

Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:11 PM EST
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By Sim2Luv

President Theodore Roosevelt
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Some one sent me a U-tube video of a song today that made me think of this.

"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 discriminate 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 but for one flag, the American flag . . .
We have room but for one language, and that is the English language . . .
And we have room for but one sole loyalty...and that is a loyalty to the American people."

President Theodore Roosevelt; January 3, 1919

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Sim2Luv

"...We have room but for one flag, the American flag . . . We have room but for one language, and that is the English language . . . And we have room for but one sole loyalty...and that is a loyalty to the American people."

I don't think it could be said any better.

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Reply#1 - Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:15 PM EST
Dr Know

How true. There should no be hyphenated Americans, just Americans.The hypen designates those who hold on to the past however distant.

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Reply#2 - Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:19 PM EST
Sim2Luv

Dr Know, we think alike on so many things.

...There should no be hyphenated Americans, just Americans...

I have been saying that for years!

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#2.1 - Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:26 PM EST
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Atsidi

I agree, And get very tired of all the PC that we have about where somebody or their ancestors might be from. On a side note another thing Roosevelt was supposed to have said during his dealings with the banking crisis of his time," If you don't let go of the money and put it in circulation, I will print new money."

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Reply#3 - Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:55 PM EST
whitiepossum

Theodore Roosevelt indeed wrote these words, but not in 1907 while he was still President of the United States. The passages were culled from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died.

First, Imigrants in the mind of Theodor Roosevelt were people not naturally of this continent. He was a racist against many europeans and his remarks were about them, not South Americans, Mexicans and native Americans which speak indian dialects or spanish. "From 1840 to 1920, an unprecedented and diverse stream of immigrants arrived in the United States, approximately 37 million in total. They came from a variety of locations: 6 million from )

White "reformers", believed the indigenous population (indians) should be forcibly assimilated into white culture. The federal government even set up a , in an attempt to impose the values and beliefs of the U.S. white population on indigenous youths.

Christopher Columbus SPOKE SPANISH

First, the area (North America) was settled by primarily by Spain, France and then English. The reason so many folks on this continent speak Spanish surely isn't because it was an Aztec thing. Spain had a far greater influence.

Spanish is every bit as legitimate as English in America and arguably even more legitimate. 80% of the land on which the US is located was spanish speaking first. The people weren't immigents we took them over by purchase or force.

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Reply#4 - Sat May 16, 2009 12:56 AM EDT
Sim2Luv

Columbus never landed on soil that is now called The United States. The Spanish Government gave up any rights to any part of The United States.

This Is the United States and we only need one flag and one language for this country. Don't likeit???? Leave it!

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Reply#5 - Sat May 16, 2009 11:21 AM EDT
Sim2Luv

P.S. Christopher Columbus was a Genoese. not a Spaniard.

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#5.1 - Sat May 16, 2009 2:36 PM EDT
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whitiepossum

P.S.back I said Columbus spoke spanish is it now your arguement that Genoese people didn't know spanish? What language do you suppose he communicated in and with Queen Isabella, .... English?

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#5.3 - Sun May 17, 2009 1:53 AM EDT
Dr Know

Tommy Lasorda is Italian. Fernando Valenzuela is Mexican. Tommy spoke to him in Italian because the two languages are close relatives in derivation from Latin. Is the trade of "interpreter" new for you as well?

Queen Isabel was Castilian. Castilians consider their language to be separate from Spanish.

St. Louis, Missouri was named by the French before the Louisiana Purchase was ceded to the USA. The Conquistadors did reach Florida, California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. While Texas IS large, that area does not cover 80% of the land mass occupied by the lower 48.

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#5.4 - Sun May 17, 2009 5:42 AM EDT
whitiepossum

Dr Know says “The Conquistadors did reach Florida, California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. While Texas IS large, that area does not cover 80% of the land mass occupied by the lower 48”

Actually CORONADO (Spanish) explored Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The French took the center of the continent which we bought in the Louisiana Purchase.

ANTOINE DE CADILLAC (French explorer 1658 –1730) founded the city of Detroit in 1701 and was the governor of the Louisiana Territory from 1710 to 1716 or 1717

There are just to many to share and you can actually look them up yourself. Great place to start your search would be .

Anyway to the point that the 2,870,084 square miles of lower 48 states only 362,880 square miles were English speaking at the time the Constitution was ratified and even that area was not solely English speaking just a majority. So that would make the non English percentage of what is now America’s lower 48 states 87.36%.

I note you drew the limit of an english language mandate to the lower 48. Does this mean Alaska and Hawaii will be free to speak their native language without fear of criticism?

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#5.5 - Sun May 17, 2009 6:09 PM EDT
Dr Know

You left out all the native languages that covered the continent BEFORE the Spanish, French and British arrived. The United States started with English as the language and one official flag.

Anyone coming to this country wishing the benefits from living here must give up primary allegiance to the flag of their former country. When a foreign force enters any nation on the face of the earth displaying the flag of another country without a specific invitation are invaders and need to be sent back to whence they came.

Lawyers in California have sued the schools for requiring the competence exams to be in English. The invaders want us to test their knowledge of English in a foreign language!!!

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#5.6 - Sat May 23, 2009 12:19 AM EDT
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Sim2Luv

Comment #5.3 was deleted because of name calling...it will not be tolerated. Furthermore, if you wish to be taken seriously on any of my articles in discussion, do not use all bold to make a comment or to reply to a comment.

Genoese speak Italian. The navigator for Columbus was Portuguese (as was the case of the most reliable Navigators of that day).

The purpose of this article was to point out the senselessness of calling yourself and American if you are going to attach something else onto it. Either you are American or you are not. You are either Hispanic, or not. You are either, African or not. You are either Asian or not. I am all for people having pride in their roots, but if it means more to them than the freedom of being an American (born or naturalized), then maybe they should think about going back to their "root country".

I, for one, am sick and tired of being told I am a racist or that I am prejudice just because I have an opinion and I voice that opinion. If I were any color but WHITE, I would not be called such.

By-the-way, my father, my two uncles, two brothers, countless cousins, 2 nephews, and 2 sons served in the military during non-peace times... AND my family goes all the way back to the first original colonies. So, the statement that your family has been here only 150 years, doesn't mean much to me.

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Reply#6 - Sun May 17, 2009 4:52 AM EDT
Dr Know

I regularly attend Buddhist Temples. They all fly both the American Flag as well as the flag of the country of their origin. The only time I see a single flag of another country flying is that of Mexico. These are the people that want the benefits of citizenship without living up the oath they take when they accept citizenship in the United States of America.

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#6.1 - Sun May 17, 2009 5:45 AM EDT
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Sim2Luv

Keep on whitiepossum...the more you comment, the more I make of this article that no one else cares about. You are officially on ignore.

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Reply#7 - Sun May 17, 2009 8:30 PM EDT
peter-413695

well i am part of the thirteen colony's and love the stars,but most of all i like the red "for the blood spilt "White "for unity" and blue "for how i feel not being there"

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Reply#8 - Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:42 PM EDT
Sim2Luv

Nice sentiment. I haven't heard that one (or one like it ) in a long time.

    #8.1 - Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:51 PM EDT
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