I’ve been reading Paul Johnson’s A History of the American People. I’m enjoying it so far. I’m about a quarter of the way through, but this line from the preface has been resonating with me:
I do not acknowledge the existence of hyphenated Americans, or Native Americans or any other qualified kind. They are all Americans to me: black, white, red, brown, yellow, thrown together by fate in that swirling maelstrom of history which has produced the most remarkable people the world has ever seen. I love them and salute them, and this is their story.
It’s a shame that today there are many people that only care about the qualifier and would much rather drop the American label altogether.
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