Let's just live and let live

You know, I am so tired of hearing about racism, prejudice and out right hatred I feel a need to speak out about color blindness. I don't mean that thing you fail at the eye doctor's office, I mean that separation of the races. White people and white government are blamed for the poor living conditions of the blacks, the blacks are blamed for all high crime rates, illegal immigrants are blamed for everything. Let's logically think about some of this and how much is simply not true.



First, I am not prejudiced nor am I a racist I am a realist and I look at facts not colors, therefore I am color blind. So I would like to start with a few questions.

1. Why can there be a Miss Black America?

2. Why is there a Black Entertainment Channel?

3. Why do all of our signs have to be in Spanish and English?

4. Why does Mexico have laws that forbid foreigners from owning beach front property, from government sponsored medical care and other government sponsored programs?

5. Why does the American Government allow the separation of ethnic groups?

For these questions I present arguments not conclusions. For question one, what would happen if there was a Miss Chinese America, a Miss Korean America, A Miss White America. Is it possible that by having a separate title for Miss Black America we just combine all the Miss America's into one group and just call them Miss America. Oh yes, this has already been thought of and it is called Miss America, but remember if I am white, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American, I cannot enter the Miss Black America Contest. But Miss America does not discriminate, Miss America can be of any race.

Black Entertainment Channel, Channels in Spanish only, these two things are a little ethnically condescending. These channels cater to their respective ethnicity, but all of the other channels show movies and series containing all of the above mentioned groups. I am not saying if you live in America speak American, what I am saying is that the government should pick a national language and stick to it. Don't make all of us too old to learn, learn a new language let's make all school children learn one language. And no, non English children should not be mainstreamed into a classroom until they have the language ability to keep up. Why are other children being held back so as not to lose the non English speaker and the non English speaker is not getting anything sitting in a classroom that they can't understand a word that is spoken.

Why should signs be in English and Spanish? There are multiple other languages spoken in America, there is French, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Italian, and German just to name a few. Why do the Hispanic speaking people get preference over the others? I don't care about the percentages, this is another reason one and only one language should be made the official language of the United States. If I go to France, will they accommodate me by posting all signs in English? In Spain, if I go to a store do they have special products for Americans? Then why must America cater to a specific ethnic group when we a nation of multiple ethnicity.

Mexico has some of the harshest immigration laws in the world including where foreigners can buy land. Yet we let their citizens into America and the government gives them everything they need. Why is that America feels the need to adopt other nation's problems? Who is going to help America if the time should come? America needs to worry about it's citizens and focus on making us a strong nation not militarily but a nation of strong people who are willing to fight for what they have. All the illegal immigrants, where will they be if a war should break out on America soil. Home would be looking pretty good to them then.

One last question, why does the government allow separation of ethnic groups. Why is that filling out a form requires me to answer white, white non Hispanic or Hispanic? What does that really have to do with anything? I am either American or not. If I am in Italy, I am either American or Italian, if I am in France I am either French or American. American is a nationality. When are we going to start treating it as such instead of worrying about where my ancestor came from?

Wake up America we are one nationality American, if you live here and are a citizen of the United States you are American, you are not Italian or French or Spanish, or Mexican, YOU ARE AMERICAN.