Jebediah: English is not the only language in the world, but it is the language here. You can demand tolerance for your accent or you can hope your children speak unaccented English. If they speak unaccented English, they have not betrayed their heritage; they have accepted America as their heritage. I know Barack is not a Moslem, but I wonder why a Christian would name their child after a 6th century Islamic martyr. I guess they were trying to give their child a sense of his Kenyan identity, and what’s wrong with that? Well, he’s an American–shouldn’t they be trying to meet us halfway. And ponder the Kenyan identity: his father was a Luo. The Kikiyus see no harm in murdering Luos who try to participate in the electoral process. That is Kenya. White rascists have done more to overcome their prejudices than the tribal bigots of Kenya. I am glad that my parents rid themselves of the tribal hatreds of their fatherland, and I am sorry that Barack’s parents did not attempt to do the same for him.
