Monday, January 15, 2018

The United States and Her People


The United States and Her People
by Theo Johnson 
      The United States of America and her people matter most.  Sustained on the principals of human liberty and freedom, our nation has taken an exceptional place in history, with both our nation and its people thriving.  With the backdrop of freedom enshrined in our constitution and its bill of rights, the Citizenry of the United States, generation after generation, have built upon the foundation of our founding fathers the wealthiest, most powerful, and knowledgeable nation and civilization in the history of the world.  Whether it’s the Olympic games or Nobel prizes, our nation dominates in practically all arenas and all fields.  Both our economy and our military are still the greatest in the world because of what was once a bold and experimental economic and political system that empowered the individual citizen, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation with the same legal rights and responsibilities as descendants of royals and noblemen.

       The true story of America, is a story about how our people have struggled and persevered, through depressions, through wars, through political chaos, epidemics, invasions, and betrayal to continue pushing our nation’s realities towards the lofty ideals spelled out so many generations ago in the Declaration of Independence.  Gaining the technical prowess and knowledge base to help lead our nation towards the fulfillment of the ideals so elegantly expressed 242 years ago by our Founding Fathers and the Continental Congress is precisely why I'm here.  Our nation’s role is eternally as the leader of the free world, and it’s my resolved determination to develop the capacity to help lead our nation.    

      Diversity and multi-culturalism do not require the United States of America to betray her fundamental mores and values, her institutions, her faith, her representative form of government or her market based economic system.  Much as Frederick Douglas recognized, the liberation of the Black man would not come by revolutionary means and a rejection of the Anglo-System, rather instead from an embrace and incorporation into the Democratic-Capitalist System where a new multi-dimensional national identity would be forged.

     Identity politics have become a self-inflicted wound to our nation and we need not name names for there is ample guilt to go around across the political spectrum.  Somehow, it seems, the mainstream narrative has forgot that in our nation, at the end of the day, whatever our skin color, political affiliation, ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, national origin, job occupation or class upbringing, that we are here as Americans and as Americans we are among the most fortunate humans to ever walk the earth.  Being American is not about being Black, White, Latino, Indo or Asian.  Being American is about understanding the challenges and contributions of people from all the varying ethnic groups and working together to make sure that you and your neighbor, regardless of your backgrounds are on the right track towards finding success in a befitting way.   Our common national identity and its complex weave of narratives is one of our greatest sources of national strength and should be cherished, not exploited as a tool for internal divisiveness.  Inclusiveness, means making sure all our nation’s citizens and permanent residents are invested in the success of our system and educated as to how our system brought the rule of law, market-based economies, and democracy to the world so that the people living in it could have a better standard of living where they can exist both freely and prosperously. 

       The day that we as Americans stop defining our nation as something exceptional and holding it up as something sacred, worth fighting and dying to preserve, is the day the people will stop fighting for her.  The day the most mighty, brave, valorous, and heroic people of history stop fighting for this nation, is the day our nation will perish.  If America perishes, so will human liberty and the freedom of not only our people, but all people.  It is for this reason that we will never stop fighting.  We will never accept peace if peace requires our enslavement and the surrender of both our homeland and our liberties to either foreign powers or domestic agents of sedition; however, benign, or well-intentioned the language they cloak their motives and objectives within.   No, not us, not the Americans.  We have our United States of America and we will defend it for our posterity.  What’s most important, that is easy: The United States of America and her people.  Together, we rise.  Together, we fight. Together, we win. 













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