The Dark Side of Diversity

by Patrick Buchanan - May 1st, 2007 - Townhall.com

Almost no attention has been paid to the fact that Cho Seung-Hui was not an American at all, but an immigrant, an alien. Had this deranged young man who secretly hated us never come here, 32 people would [be] heading home from Blacksburg for summer vacation.

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Many immigrants do not assimilate. Many do not wish to. They seek community in their separate subdivisions of our multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual mammoth mall of a nation. And in numbers higher than our native born, some are going berserk here.

I do not agree with many of Patrick Buchanan's solutions to our nation's problems. However I cannot dispute that he is more honest than most about defining the problems we have that need to be solved.

Since the 1960's the democrat party has been actively trying to end the concept of America as a melting-pot and substitute their new concept of America as a salad bowl or a quilt (even they cannot quite decide what the new term will be). They have actively worked to bring in foreigners and block their assimilation into our culture, starting with a common language. They have worked to encourage cultures that were assimilating to stop and develop along separate lines. Blacks have been encouraged to develop their own language, ebonics, in furtherance of this democrat goal of diversity.

The problem? Diversity destroys the reality of a nation when parts of the nation's residents reject the national identity for a cultural identity that is in opposition in even small ways. The following is an interesting quote that proves this problem has been going on for some time. Do you know who said it?

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as anyone else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities [or cultures], an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country.

The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land [or culture] plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here. . . .”

It was President Theodore Roosevelt, on October 12, 1915. Almost 100 years ago. The only thing that has changed is that the majority of Americans agreed with his words then. It is troubling but the majority of Americans do not agree today.

In the Buchanan article I quoted at the top Buchanan lists a large number of the foreigners who have killed Americans due to their alienation from our culture. In vastly disproportionate numbers they have killed wantonly with no apparent reason. They do not hate us for any reason other than they feel their culture is superior to ours and violently reject us. The majority of democrats agree that other cultures are superior to ours. I am uncertain as to why democrats have this self loathing that translates into a loathing of their own nation and a belief that the culture of others is superior, but to deny that is true of most democrats is dishonesty.

Democrats invented the concept of diversity to pander to groups that were opposed to our country and make them an integral part of their coalition of voters. The thread that holds together their quilt of many pieces is the thread of socialism. It is this thread of opposition to the concept of freedom and free enterprise that holds the democrat party together. Outside their party, diversity is a wedge that is destroying our nation.

The twin evils of diversity and socialism must be opposed and defeated or Theodore Roosevelt's prediction will come true, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities [or cultures] . . . "

We are unfortunately well on our way.