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September 3, 2009 - 6:33 am - by Richard Fernandez
Wadeusaf
2009-09-04 10:51:18

It’s not about genetics and DNA, people…

Mr. Parker, may I humbly suggest that you are not even in the same conversation, much less of the same mind.

Culture has little to do with DNA, race is frankly a myth thus your insistence that we are talking about white Europeans is frankly disquieting. America is more than just a state of mind, Our laws, our traditions our view of ourselves as individual citizens with rights assumes there are responsibilities too.

Our Constitution asserts that all powers not explicitly given to the central government are reserved to the states. Within each state are Constitutions which likewise limit the powers of each part of government local, regional and statewide. Knowledge of and involvement in governing ourselves responsibly is the ultimate expression of that culture. What the current administration is proposing is nothing short of the abdication of that very specific and very American culture. That we believe such a culture can be practiced and supported by any group of human beings that desires individual liberty and believes like we do that our rights are self evident. To achieve that individual attitude in our cultural setting is not an exercise of automatic reflex. Especially if you are used to having your lowly self trampled by every celebrity driving down the street.

That said the school system has failed to support the culture, miserably.

Is there anyone here who ever, even slightly, advocated multi-culturalism?

No. Why would we, why should we? If you are referring to clog dancing then yeah, I can support that. But if you are referring to the political culture that allows the republic to function, then I I want nothing to do with your plea for multiculturalism. That would be self defeating.