American Culture, American Heritage

By: Edward Richardson, February 27, 2014           

Remember when immigrants who came to America WANTED to learn to speak our language, learn our history and our way of life?  They actually WANTED to BE AMERICANS?

                The “MULTICULTURALISM” myth has weakened America.  We have allowed our schools to teach our children distorted American history instead of the truth and how to be patriots, what freedom really means and the responsibilities that come with liberty. 

                America, we have OUR OWN HERITAGE & CULTURE, our own history that unites us all.  It starts with Christopher Columbus in 1492, proceeds through about 300 years of struggling just to survive until we declared our independence, wrote a Constitution and fought the revolutionary war.  We have fought many wars since then and have overcome uncounted struggles to become America today.  Some have accused America of various wrongdoings in our past, mistakes were made, and people were wronged.  Nevertheless, these trials and how we handled them and how we look at them today are all part of what it means to BE an American.

                America’s image in the world, until recently, was that of a powerful and righteous force for all that is good, a knight in shining armor never afraid to stand up for freedom, liberty and human rights.  Lately that image has been tarnished by weak, ineffective and even dishonest leaders voted in by an electorate that is poorly educated on the responsibilities that freedom and liberty require of patriots. 

We have a responsibility to teach each other and our children that freedom and liberty must be defended, not only with the sword, but also with honesty and integrity.  There is one thing that MUST stand above all other qualifications for our leaders, they MUST be HONEST!  Without INTEGRITY, corruption is bound to take hold.  As parents and citizens, it is OUR responsibility to pass our American heritage on to our children.  We MUST pass on our culture of honesty and integrity.  We must no longer allow our media to be biased without consequence nor allow Hollywood to continue to use television and movie theatres to push a permissive, immoral agenda that teaches Americans that “if it feels good, just do it.”  Our country has sunk down to the level of Sodom and Gomorrah.

We cannot allow “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS” to make us so afraid of hurting someone’s feelings that we are afraid to stand up and BE Americans.  It is OUR FAULT that America is in this mess, because in the interest of “going along to get along” and being afraid of OFFENDING others, we have allowed our children’s teachers and ourselves let America down.  If we do not correct this situation, we may have doomed our progeny to suffer the bonds of tyranny and to fight for their liberty and freedom all over again.