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Originally posted by Dark Ghost
The funny thing about this thread is that nobody is disputing the thread title! It is agreed by everyone that she did in fact say her husband is Kenyan. The disagreement seems to be with the interpretation of what she meant. Most people have admitted that it is not concrete proof that he was born in another country. But do you really not think it is strange the way it was used in this context? It seems I am not the only member who feels it is.
Originally posted by K J Gunderson
Because you are not an American and do not understand the uniquely American way of referring to ourselves within our borders to other people within our borders. It has been demonstrated well beyond any doubt that Americas regularly refer to themselves in terms of their heritage. We know we are Americans but we also know that at some point we came from a different place than almost anyone else we run into. That is what happens when you make a country out of a "melting pot."
People in America are proud to be Americans but also very proud of their heritage. In the city here it is not the least bit odd to see Puerto Riccan and various African flags on cars. These people are not from those places but their grandparents or further back are. Hell, most of the black people I know with some African stuff on their cars cannot even go back far enough to know when their family started out in America but they still like to talk about being "African."
You are not from here and do not get how it is, that is all.
Originally posted by K J Gunderson
That is what happens when you make a country out of a "melting pot."
People in America are proud to be Americans but also very proud of their heritage. In the city here it is not the least bit odd to see Puerto Riccan and various African flags on cars. These people are not from those places but their grandparents or further back are. Hell, most of the black people I know with some African stuff on their cars cannot even go back far enough to know when their family started out in America but they still like to talk about being "African."
You are not from here and do not get how it is, that is all.
Originally posted by GoNAVYSeals
And also i hope he goes to arizona where if he has no birth certificate he will be arrested and put in jail.
Originally posted by Dark Ghost
It is good to see you have grown past the labels
and veiled insults.
Had you just responded in a manner such as this initially, I would have responded more politely and taken you more seriously earlier. Thank you for taking the time to clear that up.
Originally posted by Thirty_Foot_Smurf
You are correct. America is a melting pot. It is not however, a salad bowl. A melting pot makes you American first and foremost. And a salad bowl just never really mixes and all of the ingredients stay separate.
All those who fly the flag of another country are not properly assimilating in to America and American culture. Hell I Suppose I could fly the Dutch flag, the Irish flag, the German flag, and Sioux Nation flag. My kids could add Italian to that list.
The difference is that any culturally specific holiday in the USA until lately have been part of that melting pot. Do the Irish go after people with American flags on St Patrick's day? Do Blacks go after people who wear the American flag on Kwanzaa? Do Jews go after anyone wearing the American flag on Hanuka?
Why the beef with Mexicans and the American flag in this situation? Isnt it their flag too?
Originally posted by GoNAVYSeals
I honestly don't think he was born anywhere I think he was made in a lab and that lab was not an american one.
My reason is if you can not show proof of birth through a birth certificate you have not been born you were made.
And also i hope he goes to arizona where if he has no birth certificate he will be arrested and put in jail.
Originally posted by ProUSA
reply to post by ponyboyats
You can't assume that because she called him Kenyan means that she meant he was born in Kenya.
Originally posted by allprowolfy
reply to post by K J Gunderson
gunderson what exactly is your point?
your persistence in nullifying the man is obvious
like i said early on, lets call a spade a spade, lets speak truth in on what we see and here, not of what we think we hear or see, does that make sense to you?
ts so blatant obvious that this man is keynan decent that a 2 year old can grasp this idea!
so lets move on with this dog and pony show shall we?