American Multiculturalism & You

     I may have to stop listening to NPR. One Sunday they had a guest, I didn’t catch his name—Don something—who was asked if he believed America was a multicultural society. This clod replied in all seriousness, “No, I do not. “Imagine. he actually said that. The most frightening thing about this is that he probably believes that crock of shit. Since the Trump campaign kicked off in 015 there has been a terrifying rise in right-wing bigotry and fascism in this country’s discourse.

          Let me explain something, in as simple and with as cordial language as I am able: YOURE FUCKING NUTS.

          Point two: Fuck you. We’re not going back.

          You want to live in the 19^th Century under Biblical conditions, without electricity or public toilets, build a time machine. The rest of us are not going to tolerate a nation of stupidity and intolerance. Point of fact: white people were not here first. That honor goes to the Native Americans, to the native peoples of the Bahamas where Columbus landed. The Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the 15^th Century. In fact the first permanent Spanish city in the Western hemisphere, was established in Santo Domingo in the present-day Dominican Republic in 1496. Florida was claimed as a Spanish colony by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513; Hernando de Soto discovered the Mississippi in 1541.

           Put into perspective, the first English settlement in North America, Jamestown, was not established until 1607. Latinos were here and had a healthy population and culture well before the Great Land Grab of 1846—oops, I mean the Mexican War, which was preceded by the original American land grab in the so-called Texas War of Independence in 1836. California, New Mexico, Arizona were wrongly seized as part of the war’s aims, basically taken under the terms of 1848’s Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and under the policy of Manifest Destiny. Or, the Law of Conquest. Does no one realize how much this bears shades of Nazism?

          And to all those who complain about the rights justly claimed by African Americans, which rights are guaranteed by original Constitutional law and subsequent amendments, to all you sickies who shouted, “Kill that nigger!” at Trump rallies in 2016…just remember, YOU brought them over here.

          You kidnapped them from their African homes, drowned them in the sea and seeded them all across the Caribbean and the Southern Atlantic coast of America. Did you seriously think they would give up their culture in order to adopt that of their oppressors? Recall this, you white people did not HAVE A CULTURE of your own when you arrived on these shores. 

        So to all you deniers I say America is a polyglot of cultural influences, Native American, African, Latino, Asian, Germanic& French and every other immigrant soul that has blessed our soil. As much as I’d love to tell you what you can do with yourselves, today I’ll settle for this. If you deny that America is a multicultural nation, then I’m afraid you’re an imbecile, and not a very well-educated one at that. You’re probably the same sort of boob who believes the Bible is true history and the Earth is only 6,000 years old or less. Literally descended from apes? Yeah, I can believe that, but I wouldn’t want to insult our primate cousins.