so it's ok for black people to talk about preserving their culture
Ah, a fine distinction. It is ok to preserve your culture. I have no problem saying that you want to preserve a culture of freedom, or tolerance or a culture that speaks English or a culture that celebrates thanksgiving and Christmas.
There is nothing racist in that and you can defend all of those things without ever bringing up the subject of skin color.
Only racists feel that preserving what America stands for has to do with skin color instead that with ideas.
America stands for an ideal, clearly enunciated at the time of its founding:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The constitution doesn't say "We the white people". It says "we the people".
You cannot call yourself a patriot when you don't even understand the ideals upon which this great country was founded. |
