The Inherent Hypocrisy of Political Correctness
CourthouseNews and several other news outlets are running reports about Paulo Serodio, a medical student who was pushed out of medical school based on his comment in a cultural diversity class that he’s white, African, and American.
This whole hyphenated-American nonsense has gone so far over the top, it’s laughable. There have been numerous cases where, in their zeal for “political correctness,” media outlets have actually mis-reported the facts.
- In the 1980s, an interviewer asked British hurdler Kriss Akabusi “what does this mean to you as an African-American?”, to which he responded “I’m not African, I’m not American, I’m British.” The interviewer couldn’t grasp what he meant.
- Another instance was recorded, where the leader of an African country was referred to as African-American
- Within the last few years, a newspaper article was published where a black British man was identified as African-American.
The media are so afraid of offending black people, that they don’t call them black. They’re African-American, even if they’re not American at all. The term African-American is such a sacred cow, that now, a white man, who is genuinely African-American (born in Mozambique, immigrated to the U.S.) gets harassed for stating facts about his ethnic and cultural background.
Paulo Serodio is more African-American than Jesse James, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, or pretty much any other outspoken black person I can think of, and yet, he’s been ostracized for it, because according to the idiotic decree of political correctness, all black people are African-Americans, and all African-Americans are black.
Teddy Roosevelt said in 1915:
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
Woodrow Wilson said:
Any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready.
I’m not Irish-American, English-American, Scottish-American, Dutch-American, German-American, and French-American any more than most black people in this country are African-American, so why do hyphenated-Americans have such a hard time being simply “American”? I understand wanting to hold onto your ancestors’ culture, and I do think that knowing about our ancestry is an important part of knowing ourselves, but if hyphenation makes someone feel “closer to their roots,” they have got to be one of the most superficial people on the face of the earth.
Get on board with THIS country, people. You’re either 100% American, or you’re 0% American. Make a decision.
